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Step 1 – buy a working cooker! We finally have a working cooker after 6 months of living with just a dodgy hob and grill, hooray! Isn’t it shiny?! Anyway, now that we have that it means that we are back in the kitchen and baking away. Since it was …
So Whitworths have set the challenge to find your office star baker in the Great Office Bake Off. There is lots going on at my work at the moment so no one is really in the baking mood however I got into the kitchen with the kids and tried out …
So the lovely Helen over at The Crazy Kitchen and Jenny over at Mummy Mishaps had this brain wave of hosting The Great Blogger Bake Off. Every week bloggers go head to head in the same theme of the Great British Bake Off and try to produce some yummy recipes. …
Before I knew the extent of my injuries I agreed to take part in the Good Natured‘s Splendid Spuds Winter Warmer challange. They challanged 10 bloggers to come up with the most creative, delicious recipe using the Splendid Spuds and one will win a Le Creuset set. All recipes will …
Last week I forgot to do a meal plan (oops!) and fell foul to the takeaways! So this week I intend to get back on track. After our trip to costco a few weeks ago I have a freezer full of meat & cupboards full of essentials. So what its …
Last week I noticed that my meals were pretty similar to the week before and safe to say uninspiring. So this week as well as our classics we always have I’ve added a few new ones to try out on the family. Monday – Home made burger & chips – This …
Last weeks meal plan pretty much went to plan apart from a couple of nights, this week I need to make sure I’m a bit more organised as tonight and Thursday see me studying from 5.45pm so that only gives me just over 1 1/2 hours to get in, cook dinner …
This week is the first time I have taken part in At Home with Mrs M Meal Planning Monday! I used to be really good at planning ahead however the last few weeks it has fallen by the wayside then this ends up with us having crap to eat when the …
Ingredients: 2 large Bramley apples 1 Lemon 350g Frozen blackberries 3 tbsp caster sugar 225g plain flour 150g butter 50g Demerara sugar 100g Porridge oats Greek yoghurt with cinnamon to serve, optional Preheat the oven to 200c /gas mark 6 Peel, core and chop the apples into small chunks. Cut the lemon …
Ingredients: 100g pudding rice 600ml semi-skimmed milk 4 tbsp caster sugar 1 x 400g can of apricots in natural juice Zest of 3 oranges Handful of toasted flaked almons or pomegranate seeds to garnish Place the rice, sugar and milk in a large non-stick saucepan. Bring the milk to the …
