I made some biscuits for a church group today.  I had been going to make my (and R’s) favourite “Christmas Biscuit” but as it consists almost entirely of sugar, butter, nuts, dried fruit…

Saphy has had good hunting over the last few days so I decided to make a pie out of her catches.  She was none too pleased about this, but accepted grudgingly that this…

I made pancakes today. Having bought lemons for the “crepe” version, it turned out that both R and J preferred Scotch pancakes (aka drop scones). So I made those instead which leaves some…

Today I made ricotta gnocchi in a tomato and pepper sauce with foccacia Because it was Sunday, I also made dessert which was a chocolate and orange cream whip (forgot to take photo…

My mother is a terrible woman for constantly buying food and not eating it up.  When we visited her yesterday I had cause to open her freezer (or one of her freezers –…

R is a great lover of all things chocolate related.  He is not, however, a great connoisseur of fine examples of the chocolatier’s art – on occasion I have tried him on fancy…

I have to say that J and his friends did not make a mess of the house, and that while we were away he did all his tasks, including putting the (correct) bin…

I made some bean burgers today – they were quite nice but perhaps rather dry.  I would use the recipe again, but put some homemade salsa in the roll to moisten things up.…