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Sweet Hearts & Choc Dip

February 10, 2023

Marshmallow crispy hearts with a salted caramel & chocolate fondue. Please don’t make this for your Valentine, because that would just show me up. We’re not doing that this year.

There are blackberries in every hedge and draped over every wall around here at the moment, so it seems like a good time to share this Blackberry Milkshake. In fact whilst we are at it how about this Cookies and Cream Shake. Or this PB&J version. When me and my brother were kids and Mum […]

Ice Lollies

July 9, 2022

The sun is properly out, out. But we are stuck inside with a blend of Covid 3.0 and an added layer of hay fever. Seems like a good time to share these lollipops/popsicles/ice lollies. Good for cooling down sore throats and hot people. They are mostly made with all the healthy things: yoghurt, coconut water, […]

Rhubarb Cakes and Cocktails

February 5, 2022

Rhubarb and custard cakes, with a bonus rhubarb-tini cocktail.

Toffee Apples

November 5, 2021

Toffee apples instantly make me think of bonfire night. The fun fair usually comes to town around November the 5th and it’s traditional for us to have a crunchy toffee apple after a turn on the dodgems. The last time I went to the fair though was pre-pandemic and the apples beneath the toffee were […]

Spiced French Toast & Maple Nectarines

October 24, 2021

Here’s a little ‘Pumpkin Spiced’ Autumn recipe that I made a while back. I used golden pumpkin (from a can!) to enrich the creamy batter, then flavoured it with sweet Autumn spices. Thick slices of brioche make the best French Toast, add hot syrupy nectarines, or any other fruit you have to take this from […]

Gin & Tonic Ice Cream

June 12, 2021

Easy Gin & Tonic Ice Cream This is not a proper fancy recipe involving ice cream makers, eggs or lots of stirring and re-freezing: It’s 5 ingredients, a quick whisk, a few hours freezing and you’re done. I use a Seville orange flavoured gin and the pretty aromatic Fever Tree tonic but you can use […]

Caramel Apple Pies

November 16, 2020

We have a small, wonky apple tree in the garden with three different apple varieties grafted into one, so it’s a Bramley-Cox-Russet tree. Except it’s minus its Bramley bit because that branch snapped off during heavy snow one Winter, so I have to get our Bramley supplies from Grandad’s tree. This year, as if desperately […]

Coconut Pudding with Mango Salsa

April 14, 2019

Watching Jamie Oliver cook a coconut and mango rice pudding TV this week made me really fancy a creamy, coconutty rice pudding. Then I remembered I had my own recipe developed for a magazine article way back in 2015. My document and photo hoarding has finally paid off, as here it is in its four-year-old […]

Peach and Blueberry Hand Pies

January 28, 2019

'Hand Pies' because you can eat them with your hands. They could also could be named down-in-one pies.

Clementine and Polenta Cakes

January 20, 2019

Always happy to help with your monthly cake intake :)

A few Sticky Buns

May 22, 2016

Morning all. Ed is on his Sunday morning walk in the woods with Ernie and George is having his first lie in for weeks so I’ve just got time to share my sticky buns with you. There are many, many more buns to be found on thingswemake but I like this recipe as it’s not […]

Pannacotta with Rhubarb

March 17, 2016

I’ve just bought some new season rhubarb. Young and tender and pink as you like. I love these slender, forced Timperley stems. They are so tender and not at all stringy like the rhubarb my Mum used to grow. It makes me think that Spring is really on the way. It’s a real toss-up as […]

The Easiest Coconut & Lime Loaf

March 5, 2016

Oh my. Have I got a back catalogue building up? Yes…yes I have. I keep developing and jotting down recipes. Testing, eating, altering, trying again. I write them up in draft and just don’t get around to taking a photo and posting them on here. Here’s one to be going on with. As with most […]

Lemon Loaf Cake

May 25, 2015

Sometimes you just need a no-nonsense cake. One for the weekend, obligingly providing slices of dense, butteriness with every cup of tea. One for when friends are calling in and you want to offer sustenance, but nothing too fussy. One to wrap in foil and take on a camping trip or to stuff into a rucksack for a walk on […]

Rhubarb Ginger Lime

April 10, 2015

Rhubarb, Ginger and Lime - The long and the short of it.

Apple Turnovers

December 17, 2014

It’s been a while, so I thought I’d break us in gently with a nice, simple turnover. We’ve been through a lot you and I. We’ve made good things and bad things, sown stuff and grown stuff, been places and filled our faces. I feel sad that I’ve not been sharing, but there are times […]