Although I consider myself “paleo” I have to admit that I’m also human. This means that on occasions I have to cut the proverbial corners when it comes to meal prep and rely on the Free From isle of my local supermarkets. Now, the idea of whipping up a quick pesto sounds very romantic but…
There are some things that as hard as I try to master, I just have to admit defeat, and one of them is cooking regular rice. I like to think I’m pretty good at following a recipe and have a natural instinct in the kitchen, but it all disappears when I make rice. It ends…
I find I’m generally a one or two trick pony when it comes to making soup, its either butternut soup or cauliflower and I seldom digress from this well loved plan. This weekend after a trip into town and forage through the local veggie market, I decided to push my soup making skills to try…
Once you have a base for a good pastry or cookie dough, then anything becomes possible. This particular pie, I started by making double the amount of dough from my galette recipe, added some ginger spice, then stared at it for ages willing it to tell me what it wanted to become – ginger cookies…
I remember making toffee apples with my mum as child and they were just SO messy. Then eating was even worse, the caramel cracked and fell everywhere and the contrast between the sweet sugar caramel and the regular apple was actually unpleasant, to the point that I would eat the caramel and throw away the…
Our town’s bonfire night is on Friday, and we are gearing up for a great time out with a torch procession, fire works rounded up with cocktails at a friends bar. Seeing as winter has arrived with a bang we will most certainly arrive home cold (although belly warm from Kelvin’s amazing cocktails) and I’m…
