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  Ever taken a food personality test?! Find my Tenderstem® Veggie Tacos with Feta, Chilli and a Cashew Cream Sauce below! If you regularly devour food blogs it’s fair to say you might describe yourself as a bit of a foodie, but have you ever tho...

These  chicken drumsticks will certainly not win any beauty contests, but when it comes to taste they are blue ribbon winners for sure, and a cracking way to begin September!!They are as simple to make as stirring together a sauce and pouring it...

There is no dessert that Todd loves more than a good crumble.   Apple.  Blueberry.   Strawberry rhubarb . . . if it has crumble in the name, Todd loves it.  Well, maybe not as much as the memory of his mother's apple pie...

Making Mexican (Tex Mex) food here in the UK has always presented me with somewhat of a challenge.  Although there are certainly many more ingredients available these days in the grocery shops than there were when I first  moved over here,&...

I just love LOVE blueberry season.  Its one of my favourite crops.  I do eat them all year round, but nothing tastes better than a fresh blueberry picked off of one of your own bushes.  I do miss the wild blueberries that we used to pi...

Sweet Corn Muffins are the perfect addition to suppers like that delicious White Chicken Chili I showed you yesterday!   Corn and chili are a marriage made in heaven, don't you know!These are beautiful muffins  . . .  moist and st...

My Todd just adores apple desserts . . .  pies, cakes, puddings, crumbles . . .  I decided to make him a crumble the other day, but this is a crumble with a difference!   It has the addition of sticky prunes and a lovely hazelnut...

Jelly roll . . . this is a favourite cake of my childhood.  We knew we were in for a real treat if we came home from school and a jelly roll was sitting on the counter waiting to be sliced.  Also known as a Swiss Roll, I think this is a per...

 I think I have mentioned my good friend Leona before on here.  It was back on the 22nd of November, in 1981 that I met Leona at a Bingo game on the base my then husband had just been posted to. (London, Ontario in Canada)  I was heavi...

 I cooked a roast at the weekend and had plenty of leftovers afterwards, which doesn't make me sad in the least.  I love leftovers almost more than I love the original meals!!  In my opinion, leftovers taste twice as nice!  I don'...

On the surface this gingerbread might look quite unremarkable . . . but this is one case where you would be mistaken in thinking this gingerbread isn't great!   The recipe is copied out in my handwriting and sitting my blue binder on a page...

Hot Cross Buns, traditionally eaten on Good Friday are an Easter staple. They are fairly straight-forward to make and are well worth having a go at as they’ll be much tastier than a supermarket version. These have the added bonus of another Easter...

 There are certain foods from your childhood that stand out and never get old . .  dishes which evoke the sweetest memories and most tender thoughts.  These squares do that for me.  Aunt Orabelle's Date Squares.  Aunt Orabell...

We had the elders over for supper the other night and I made a huge pot of my spaghetti bolognese for them to enjoy.  I don't think I am bragging when I say that I make a really great bolognese.  I've had over 35 years to practice and hone...

Goodness it’s cold here in the UK, we even had snow at the weekend. It’s so hard, I find, to keep up with any kind of January ‘healthy eating regime’ when all you want to do is curl up with a blanket and eat mounds of warm comfort food. So, I...

I normally wouldn't show you two beef recipes in a row, but I was meant to show you this last week and am only now just getting around to it.   We don't eat beef very often and we would only ever very rarely have it two days in a row!  This...

I wanted to share some of my all time favourite cake recipes with you today.  These are old recipes that I've been using for a very long time.  Tried and true, there is a delicious Lazy Daisy Cake, a fabulous Double Layer Chocolate Cake and...

A Polish-inspired beetroot summer salad with apples, radish and dill I was interested to read this week about the four distinct waves of Polish migration to the UK. I tend to only think of my parents’ generation, resettling to the UK after the Seco...

Sausage rolls are very popular over here in the UK.   You will see them for sale in all of the bake shops and cafes and of course at most pot lucks/parties, etc.  there is usually the obligatory tray of sausage rolls to feast on.  Peop...

I think Bread Pudding has to be the Toddster's favourite all time dessert, next to apple pie.   So, this week, when I found myself having a bit too much bread in the house due to the Toddster's having bought the wrong kind of bread when he picke...

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