Over the weekend I put up a facebook post offering up my old slow-cooker, because my life is a non-stop rollercoaster of excitement and laughs. And people LOVED it. They are so surprisingly interested in slow cookers – and rightly so, slow cookers are Da Bomb. It’s like Past You has cooked Present You dinner […]
Cooking
Food that is not a cake. Maybe it is a saag paneer, or a bowl of soup.
Ridiculously Healthy Lunch Soup
I always tell myself that I am going to make myself soup to take to lunch. Delicious, wholesome nourishing soup! Knocked up in 20 minutes in my own kitchen, meeting my nutritional needs perfectly, not full of double cream (I KNOW IT’S DELICIOUS, COVENT GARDEN SOUP CO, BUT IT’S NOT FOR EVERY DAY, OKAY?) and […]
Blogmas Day 14 – Chocolate Truffle Teacups
Because NO ONE likes Christmas pudding. Today, I am sharing an old family recipe* for chocolate truffle torte. This is a fine little pudding to make for any occasion – it is at heart just chocolate and cream, so everyone likes it. My Mum always made this in a big springform cake tin, which looks […]
Blogmas Day 5 – Maple Butter Toffee
(Or “Salted Maple Christmas Caramels” if you insist). The internet is full of recipes for “Christmas caramels – ideal for gifting! 😀 <3 :D” and the like, but you know what all of them have in common? A) they refer to this confection as caramel when it is sodding CLEARLY toffee and B) they require […]
Five Minute Dinner – Kinda Carbonara
This is what I like to think of as Friday night food. You know when you don’t have any plans, and it’s been a long week, and you’re coming home to your partner, and you said you’d get dinner? And you stand in the supermarket and gaze at some leeks and think “I can’t be bothered with […]
Maybe Perfect Healthy Pizza
Cauliflower crust pizza! Ruler of Pintrest, holy grail of paleo, deeply unlikely idea. WHY AM I DOING THIS? Pizza is hands down my favourite food. I bloody LOVE it, especially really dirty, Dominoes-style takeaway pizza, with double cheese and a pot of saturated fat on the side to dip my crusts in. Yeeeeeeeeah! But as […]
Most Comforting Pasta Bake
Guys. It’s winter. WINTER. Properly November. Bonfire night and Halloween are gone, and we’re all staring down the barrel of three whole months of getting up in the dark and coming home in the dark and getting dressed in front of the fire because you didn’t get the windows replaced in summer like you were […]
Breakfast Melba
Breakfast is totally rubbish, isn’t it? The shittest of all the meals. Who wants to get up extra early in the morning and try to eat cereal (SO BORING) or toast (SO BORING unless you put nutella on it) while stumbling around in the near dark trying to decide if you can style out leggings […]