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 […]

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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 […]

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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.  […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Tomato and Sausage bread bake

This dish came about because I had some bread ends in the freezer that needed using up.   I defrosted my bread ends and also got some black bean juice cubes (I freeze the liquid left […]

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Menu Planning

I have been menu planning for a while now, using the method of looking in the cupboards/fridge/freezer on a Sunday night to see what needs to be used up and writing up the menu plan […]

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Peanut Butter flavours experiment

This experiment came about from a conversation we had over lunch at work one day.  I have made my own peanut butter for a while now (recipe here) and was inspired to try some different […]

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