Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
I love cooking with rhubarb – it’s such a beautiful ingredient that brings a mouth whalloping tang along wherever it goes. I don’t have a super sweet tooth, so really enjoy the sourness of rhubarb in desserts. Sara Buenfield’s recipe for rhubarb and orange cake in May’s Good Food Magazine has been on my to-bake list [...]
This quesedilla lunch recipe is so quick and easy it’s ridiculous. It’s a cross between a wrap and a toasted sandwich – and is great for a speedy lunch for kids, but also good for filling lunchboxes the next day if you’ve made a big enough batch. As long as you’ve got a bit of [...]
It’s all about making lunch interesting in my kitchen this month, as you may have gathered from my last few posts. This time i’ve been fiddling about with mini quiches. Too much faff? Well no it really doesn’t have to be, especially if you use shop bought ready rolled pastry like I do. I made [...]
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 [...]
After having house guests for the best part of three weeks on and off, our fridge freezer is groaning with leftovers. I can assure you that croissants aren’t something we usually host a surplus of. The last one in the packet will be fiercely fought over, the kids win, but then do that annoying thing [...]
Rhubarb is one of my favourite things – sharp and sweet, vibrantly coloured and just springs up at the allotment without me having to do anything. Job’s a good ‘un. Crumble is the obvious vehicle for it, especially with some stem ginger and lashings of custard. The crumble cake I made last year was particularly [...]
I’ve been writing a feature about picnics, and as a result have received a fair few samples of pre-packaged miniature cakes. I thought I’d do a little round-up of some of them as they’re particularly useful for lunchboxes as well as picnics. Of course it’s wonderful to make your own cakes, but not everyone has [...]
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 [...]
Saturday lunchtimes are a frenzied affair. Sam has swimming and we usually all go for a dip while he has his lesson. So when we get back we’re normally starving hungry and just empty the contents of the fridge onto the kitchen table with a crusty loaf of bread and get stuck in to a [...]
This is a little round-up of a few projects i’ve been working on lately…. 1. Pumpkin soup for Parentdish I made this delicious seasonal soup which went down a total treat with the boys. They normally refuse to eat any soup apart from tinned cream of tomato – certainly not home made. So I was [...]
