We’re just back from touring Southern Spain for a few days, returning from the lovely sunshine and good wine to a UK weather warning for snow on Easter Monday and a surplus of onions in the kitchen! It seemed that the only decent thing to do was attempt to create the delicious onion soup I… Continue reading Spanish-ish Onion Soup
I discovered a tub of ricotta at the back of the fridge that I’d completely forgotten about. A love for cheese scones and determination not to waste food led me to invent these beauties which are so delicious I’ll most likely be buying more ricotta in the near future to make them again. I added… Continue reading Ricotta, chorizo and herb scones
I love it when bananas are a bit overripe in the supermarket and reduced to 10p/kg! This little lot cost me 17p this morning and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with them. Usually I make them into banana bread but as I’ve been rushing out of the house with little time for breakfast this week I… Continue reading Overripe banana bars
In the summer, I love making burgers for the BBQ and play around with recipes quite a lot. Being winter here in the UK there aren’t many BBQs happening at the moment but we had a pack of mince in the fridge a few days ago so I decided to make these for a change.… Continue reading The Best Burgers
This one isn’t so much a recipe as a tip. I’m quite a fan of mushrooms on toast for breakfast and believe that Jim, my dearly beloved, cooks the best mushrooms. We tend to buy chestnut mushrooms as we prefer the richer, nuttier flavour but the same method works for other mushrooms too! Jim’s trick… Continue reading Mushrooms on Toast
Since I first made a batch of this on my narrowboat perhaps 7-8 years back, it has become a firm favourite in our family. Every year when the peppers are in season around September-October (read: on offer) I make a double batch to distribute to my family as Christmas gifts. It goes really well with cheese / cold meat and… Continue reading Sweet Chilli Jam
These are similar to bakewell tarts, but with a slightly lighter topping and made with strawberry jam rather than cherry. I’m not sure why this was, or whether these tarts have any other history or link to the similar baked goods from Bakewell but they do taste good! Grandma used to make her own shortcrust pasty for these but hasn’t included… Continue reading Almond Tarts
My Grandma was a great cook and a fantastic baker. Before she died, she wrote some of her baking recipes down in this little purple book for me so that I could recreate them myself. I plan to type these recipes up and share them here too.
Messing About In The Kitchen 