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Your new favourite, easy peasy, allergy-friendly chocolate fudge cake
For our first playdate since lockdown has eased in the UK, I decided to bake a little chocolate cake with Joey to celebrate. I fancied a delicious, light, fudgy chocolate sponge cake, that was easy to rustle up with a 3-year-old's help, and that everyone could enjoy. The tricky thing was working around the dietary requirements ...
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Blueberry Crumble Muffins. One of my favorite recipes to make!
Hello friends! I had planned a post for you about the issues happening in the States right now. I wrote it and rewrote it, but I couldn’t find the words to express what is on my mind. It is all so overwhelming. So now that will be another post for another day… This weekend I ...
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Libyan Sharba, my favourite dish for a big family iftar
My father is proudly from Ghariyan, a mountain town, 100km south of Tripoli, Libya. 46 years in Britain has never shaken his love for home, and with it comes the most delicious cuisine which he often cooks up for us all. Today I share with you quite possibly my favourite (so hard to choose!): Libyan ...
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Wild Garlic Pesto -- foraging for a delicious meal!
Welcome to another recipe using yummy foraged finds! Making sure they are very safe to eat, from a healthy, clean place is the first rule for foraging of course. But we loved finding this food from the wild and made a very large batch of wild garlic pesto. We have had numerous meals -- adding ...
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Dandelion Honey - an abundant flower honey that is vegan friendly, foraging fun and very easy to make
Foraging is fun! And this is a delightful and easy recipe that the talented Emily Hogarth shared recently on Instagram and inspired us with. Dandelion Honey -- vegan friendly, easy to make, inexpensive to make, and fun to collect. It is a super lovely way to add to yoghurt or dress up French Toast or pancakes! All ...
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Rainbow Pasta! Such a fun family activity.
Pasta and comfort food go hand-in-hand... so why not bring smiles to faces and make a day out of this delicious family meal. Have a great big pasta making party! We had a 4th birthday and pasta making party with Pasta 'n Play for my son (before London's lockdown) and it was an enormous hit. ...
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Cinnamon Crunch Muffins
We love the combination of cinnamon and brown sugar, so at the weekend when we had plenty of time on our hands, we took a traditional recipe for a plain muffin base and played around until we perfected this cinnamon crunch muffin. They are so delicious we managed to polish off the whole batch over ...
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The Simplest Cornbread -- a super easy store-cupboard recipe, ready in just one step!
I have been making this cornbread in various forms since I started to wean my eldest daughter and its been especially useful recently with ingredients being scarce or hard to track down. This is the very basic recipe - ready in just one step! It is so unbelievably easy and versatile and can easily be ...
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Chewy chocolate chip cookies - a little treat during this strange time
We've had a full-on week with home learning (as you all have I imagine) and managed to survive (just) the week in the house together. But this morning I felt we all needed a little time out from the work and we did maths through baking by making these delicious cookies. They were out of ...
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Blueberry Dump Cake -- satisfyingly simple
Ready for this recipe which is easy as pie, and makes a delicious cake? :) Then make room in your day for this Blueberry Dump Cake. It is literally made with ingredients dumped into a bowl, then dumped into a greased skillet, and then baked in the oven. It takes about five minutes to make ...
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Sweet Potato + Maple Pancakes
Pancake Day is my absolute favourite Tuesday of the year... my only concern is whether to go sweet or savoury?! I have a life long and enduring love of classic crepes doused in sugar and lemon but more recently I find I just can't resist (and could eat pretty much any time of the day) ...
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Elda’s deliciously crispy Albanian Byrek
It is one thing to have lovely neighbours – very much a blessing in life. It is another thing all together when those lovely neighbours become wonderful friends, your children adore each other and they welcome you into their home to teach you how to make Albanian food! My sweet friend, Griselda - Elda ...
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Sunshine in a Jar -- Make your own Marmalade!
This is the very best way to cheer up a grey day. It truly is sunshine in a jar, and any marmalade maker will tell you that homemade marmalade is sooo much better than anything store bought. So I thought this was our year to give it a try. I will not sell this as ...
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5 tips for substituting dairy out of baking recipes
Do you have tried-and-tested baking recipes that you love, but that contain dairy when you need to bake for a non-dairy eating friend / family? Have you tried substituting ingredients in the past, but the recipe has ended disastrously? Rest easy, I’ve been in this position for years, working for clients who demand a recipe ...
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Cauliflower Tikka Masala -- oven-baked in 30 minutes
This recipe combines two of my favourite things: Indian spices and oven-baking! The recipe uses a very straightforward homemade curry paste which might sound a bit daunting and time intensive but I assure you this is super easy, ready in 5 minutes and so worth it! You could substitute in other vegetables such as pumpkin ...
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Chorizo and Butter Bean Winter Stew
This Chorizo and Butter Bean Winter Stew is the perfect winter meal- deeply flavoured, slowly cooked and warming right to the soul. It’s so quick to put together and you can add in any extra root vegetables or peppers you have lying around to bulk out the vegetable content. I generally just cook the stew ...
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One Tray Dinner -- A Salmon with Crusted Sesame and Pak Choi
We love having meals together as a family, but with various work, club, school, and nap schedules, it gets a bit complicated some weekdays. But we value good, healthy, home cooked meals around the table together, so we had to find a good way to achieve this in an easy way. And tray baking, or ...
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Cookie Recipe and Holiday Entertaining Tip!
We love cookies over the Christmas holidays, as you may have read earlier this month with our Twisted Candy Cane cookie. A winner indeed! But today I wanted to share a good 'staple' cookie, that can easily be enjoyed as an after school treat without the sugar crash. It is my reliable Cranberry Raisin Oatmeal ...
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CHRISTMAS RECIPES
Bee's plant-based gingerbread cookie cottage DIY
If you fancy some festive DIY, but need a recipe and set of instructions that are failsafe, then I've got just the project for you! This little gingerbread cottage measures around 1ocm cubed, so its a dinky, cute manageable size...albeit one that could just about be snaffled in one go... Over the years, I've made ...
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A lighter, zingier, festive fruit cake
Hello baking friends, Deep dark, boozy traditional fruitcakes are not my cup of tea...and if you feel the same, then this recipe is just for you! Its a lighter, zingier, fresher take on a traditional Christmas-style fruit cake, and it factors in lots of dried tropical fruits, like pineapple, papaya, finds, apricots and cherries, for ...
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Twisted Candy Cane Sugar Cookies
These candy cane sugar cookies are so very easy! And you don't need special cutters, or lots of time to make them. We made them last year when my mom was visiting, and they were really fun for kids (and adults) of all ages. You could even add a bit of mint flavour to ...
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Blackberry Cream Cheese Puffed Pastry
The smell of cinnamon, blackberries, and pastry puffing away in the oven is the perfect way to wake up even the groggiest kid (or parent) after a long week. We had a dozen in the oven, and six people around the table, and they didn't last past one sitting, but I am sure they would ...
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Michael's homemade granola recipe
One of the first things we noticed when we moved to Australia is how expensive the food here is, especially good, organic food. And one of the things that really stood out to us was the price of granola (especially when you're buying for a family of seven)! I guess it was something we took ...
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