I am new to slow cooking. In fact my mantra of late has been fast cooking: the kind of cooking that can be whipped up in twenty minutes from when I come downstairs having left The Girls screaming put The Girls to bed to when DH walks through the door. My life involves short-cuts [...]
I found the most wonderful heart-shaped foil cases recently and really wanted to use them for something. Then Anchor Butter got in touch about their Bring Back Elevenses Campaign, and the first thing I thought of was Rocky Road. Others may like a crumpet, or a wedge of cake at 11am, but I want [...]
Today will be an odd day. DH is finally home for the holidays, and we are off to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway for our (now-) Annual Santa Special trip. We’re all very excited about it, since it really marks the start of our family Christmas Celebrations. Sadly, though, it is the first [...]
It’s day of the Kick-Start Christmas Giveaway and I’m sitting watching Barbie The Nutcracker with The Girls. I can feel stirrings of something approximating Christmas spirit, despite the early hour. Which makes it the perfect time to tell you about today’s Giveaway.
It couldn’t be simpler: I have a £25 Amazon voucher. No [...]
I’m probably going to curse myself now, but I seem to be doing reasonably well with my Christmas preparations. That said, things have been slightly complicated of late by the fact that the Dimpled Assassin, who is famed for her bad sleeping habits, has adopted the guest bedroom as her bedroom of choice. She [...]
Do you ever have that moment of panic when you realise that you are leaving for a friend’s house in 45 minutes and you are meant to be bringing dessert. Except you haven’t bought or made one. There’s nothing like that kind of pressure to get your adrenaline pumping. Lets just say I have [...]
Scraping out all those pumpkins (and I think I did five, but lost count) has left me with an awful lot of pumpkin guts to do something with. Once I was able to look at them without feeling nauseous, I remembered the leftover roast chicken in the fridge and a plan formed in [...]