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Sometimes you just want something nice. You don’t have the time or energy for grocery shopping, difficult techniques and unusual ingredients you never worked with before. Everybody should have store cupboard niceties that can be made at a minutes notice and not be more hassle than they are worth.… Read the rest

I had a moment of inspiration on Sunday, helped along with the power of ‘googling’ rice pudding and bananas. What started out as a plan to make rice pudding for the boys ended up being far more complicated, time consuming and nowhere near ready for them to eat before bedtime.… Read the rest

To end our Christmas festivities we had Aoife from Gastronomicgirls.com and her husband over for dinner. No pressure there to provide a lovely dinner and dessert! Obviously I am not one to linger on the savoury element to any meal but a special mention has to go to the nibbles of parmesan and truffle popcorn we had for nibbles whilst waiting on the beef bourguignon that I had timed wrongly and that my knight in shining armour swooped in to rescue whilst I sat chatting.… Read the rest

The festive season in our family is definitely a week long event, starting Christmas Eve and ending New Year’s Day. I generally try to host one dinner for my family over the week (in return for me never actually having to deal with the stress and pressure of providing Christmas dinner for my own husband and sons).… Read the rest

Sometimes, in the middle of the week, all you want is a nice piece of cake. Nothing fancy or elaborate, just “something nice” for after dinner. Something to threaten the kids that they can’t have, unless they clear their dinner plates.… Read the rest

This week was my long suffering husband’s birthday. He puts up with the up-ended kitchen on a regular basis, and often he doesn’t even get the benefit of the products, since they are usually intended for elsewhere. Also, he’s a Paleo fanatic, so chooses not to indulge in tasty treats, preferring steak to cake (we are like chalk and cheese).… Read the rest