Given I now work as a freelance children’s cookery teacher a significant amount of my time is currently taken up with recipe research and development along with teaching children how to cook. Recently, unless it is promoting various skills, has the potential to be knife-free […]
The plans for having a Birthday BBQ have been shot. The weather is terrible and Hubby is stuck in London. He’s working on a project at the British Motor Show due to open in the next few days. He went down first thing Friday expecting […]
Hubby’s latest edible project, basic hard cheese, has been a month in the making. He found out how to make it on the Creative Living forum. I never realised cheese making involved such a basic process. It was very interesting to see the milk curdle […]
This post should really be titled “The Hubby who wants to be Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall”, oh and I before I go on I suggest veggies, click away now! Hubby’s first flit with being Hugh started last summer when he built a clay oven in the back […]
Vanilla sugar has been a staple in my kitchen for a long time. I first came across the idea many moons ago on a Jamie O programme and decided rather than paying a hefty amount for shop bought vanilla sugar I would make my own. […]
This weekend was another weekend-long family gathering in Warwickshire. Like everytime we meet up there is lots of food left over by the Sunday afternoon. I managed to bring home, amongst other things, enough sausages to make a meatloaf tomorrow and nearly a litre of […]