Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
I’m delighted to be hosting this month’s Breakfast Club – a blogging event thought up by Helen at Fuss Free Flavours to celebrate the first meal of the day. It’s a good excuse to think of something a bit more exciting than tea and toast and share it with us here. This month’s theme is [...]
I spotted these gorgeous fellas in this month’s Good Food Magazine and immediately thought they’d be perfect for Sam’s lunchbox and also for post-school munchies. They’ve got mashed cooked carrot in, along with pineapple chunks and juice and a healthy scattering of sunflower seeds so you can feel quite virtous eating them despite the fact [...]
Half term was somewhat blighted by illness in the Feeding Boys house, and for two hideous days my throat was so sore I couldn’t swallow proper food. Now that’s just miserable. End of. But to try and get some nutrition into my germ-ridden self I whizzed up some of these breakfast smoothies in the blender. [...]
Glorious plums dusted with cinnamon sugar, grilled and served with a stack of griddled scotch pancakes, lashings of creme fraiche and a drizzle of honey. It’s quick to make , but looks and tastes seriously impressive so is ideal as a dessert for wowing dinner party guests or even for a special birthday breakfast. I [...]
Pancake day is upon us this week, a fabulous excuse to cook up my favourite breakfast treat. Not that we need an excuse to be honest, we’ll often have them at weekends or birthday breakfasts. I wanted to give you lovely lot a couple of recipes – a traditional one for those that need it, [...]
I had a bunch of manky bananas hanging on my kitchen worktop for longer than I should have – they went black and really started freaking me out so I quickly mashed them up and looked for a recipe to use them with. I turned to Nigella’s website and found this recipe – they’re not [...]
This meal is no looker, but egg and beans are a great combo, especially when you’re in a rush to get some kind of nutritious meal on the table. For us it’s Thursday nights when we’ve got back from football club at 5pm and the boys are cold and hungry and want their tea NOW! [...]
Reading this month’s Sainsbury’s Mag, I came across a massive feature on some of Dan Lepard’s amazing looking cakes with enormous glossy pictures of the most tempting array of goodies I’ve seen in quite a while. The squidgy banana blondies looked particularly wanton, and as I had a few manky bananas knocking about I decided [...]
Reading this month’s Sainsbury’s Mag, I came across a massive feature on some of Dan Lepard’s amazing looking cakes with enormous glossy pictures of the most tempting array of goodies I’ve seen in quite a while. The squidgy banana blondies looked particularly wanton, and as I had a few manky bananas knocking about I decided [...]
Eggy bread is lush. Fact. Eggy crumpets are super lush. FACT FACT FACT!!!!! We needed a quick and comforting lunch on Sunday when we were in the midst of a marathon weekend of birthday parties – Sam had three to go to in two days. I wish my social life was that active! We had [...]
