Leftover fruit
Saturday morning is my weekly visit to the local vege market and the fruit bowl is normally empty by Friday. Unusually for us, we had some fruit leftover on Saturday morning so I put it […]
Tag: love food hate waste
Plum and Ginger Chutney
As soon as Christmas is done and dusted for the year, I am thinking about the next one. I like to collect up recipes and gift ideas throughout the year and write them in my […]
Granola Hack
I have been making a batch of my Granola recipe every time we run out which is weekly at the moment. I have been experimenting with possible replacements for Maple syrup as with the rising […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini Tomato Sauce
The next chapter in the Zucchini glut saga is making some zucchini tomato sauce. I have loosely based this on Nicola Galloway’s Roasted tomato and courgette harvest sauce recipe. I used tinned tomatoes as our […]
Gardening / homegrown / Homemade / Love food hate waste / No Waste / Preserving / Recipes / recycling
Zucchini glut!
We are currently experiencing a zucchini glut in our garden and in desperation I turned to Google for some ideas to use them up. I had already made this cake (it was delicious by the […]
You can improve on a good thing
I have a recipe for chocolate chip biscuits that my mum used to make for us when we were little. I have made it so many times that I know the recipe off by heart. […]
Easy Risotto Recipe
I am going to give you the long story of how I came to make this risotto. We order our groceries online and get them delivered and last Friday when they arrived, there was an […]
Pizza Calzone
All I can say is you need to make these. They are easy and delicious and they freeze really well. I have made a couple of batches since we have been in lockdown and we […]
Lockdown pickles
My normal saturday ritual involves a visit to my local vege market to get our fruit and veges for the coming week. Since we have been under lockdown the vege market has been closed. We […]
Cinnamon Apple Compote
I wouldn’t really call this a recipe but it is a great way to use up apples that are past their best for eating, rather than throw them into the bin or compost. I have […]