One of our favourite pastimes now the children are older, is to bake with them. Freddie in particular often suggests it, and will go and get one of our many…
So the kids have been all about the baking at the moment, which in a fit of I’m-missing-you-as-you’re-at-school-so-of-course-you-can-do-any-activity-you-like-as-long-as-it-makes-you-happy, misty-eyedness, I have given them free-reign of the kitchen, with maybe a…
Every year I make a Christmas cake, using my family’s traditional recipe. Once the cake has had a few weeks to be soaked in booze, it’s retrieved from its tin,…
I have to admit that I’m a bit of a pastry fiend. Sweet or savoury, I could eat the stuff all day, but I refrain as I would be the…
Okay, so I’m slightly behind with making (and posting) this cake recipe, as I always think of toffee apples as being bonfire night fare, but I had to share as…
When I was growing up, every year around October half term, Mum and I used to make the Christmas cake, made from an old family recipe, to store away until…
Now we’re in October (Whaaaat?!) I think it’s totally acceptable to start posting about all things Autumn and Halloween. When I started this little blog last October, I did several…
A few weeks ago, Freddie and Sasha were diagnosed as being cow-dairy intolerant (more on this to follow). Obviously as a family who like their food, and with children who…
Good morning! So this weekend just gone was mostly spent at home cooking and baking. It’s rare that we actually have a weekend totally at home (I didn’t leave the…