Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
You really can’t beat putting your numb hands around a warm mug of hot chocolate when you’ve come in from running the boys around the park in the biting wind. This version uses real chocolate so it is a bit extravagant – but as we’ve all been feeling run-down and in need of comfort we feel [...]
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. [...]
Continuing my quest for coffee-related recipes for the Coffee Set Match challenge being run by Wimbledon sponsors Lavazza, I came up with this chilly milkshake. After a two hour power march around a very sun-drenched Ealing, I decided my usual steaming cup of hot coffee would be better replaced by something ice cool. Using my nifty Morphy [...]
Hot chocolate spoons setting in silicone cases It was my mum’s 70th birthday party at the weekend and I decided to make little table gifts for everyone. I drew inspiration from the fabulous Holly from GBBO with her hot chocolate on a stick idea over at Recipes from a normal mum. It’s essentially a large [...]
Some people might think a milk frother is a fairly gimmicky gadget, I however am a big fan of milky coffee so couldn’t wait to give the Morphy Richards Meno a drive. This was the latest product to be sent for me to try by MP as part of my duties as a Home of [...]
A while ago I got involved with a spot of recipe testing for Vanessa Kimbell who was working on her first cook book Prepped! and had recruited fellow food bloggers to put her recipes through their paces. I tried out a double cook recipe that started off with duck noodles, and then the leftovers were [...]
Elderflower cordial is my favourite soft drink – diluted with several glugs of sparkling water, a few chunks of ice and a wedge of lemon – a fab way to cool off on a hot day in London. I’ve been waiting for the Elderflowers to show themselves, and with all the sunshine there’s been lately [...]
Sam’s lack of adventure at the dinner table has driven me crazy these past few weeks. But things have improved slightly on the back of his nursery doing a cookery theme this week. So I capitalised on this and we’ve been making yummy home-made milk shakes in the afternoons. Our favourite flavour had been banana [...]
We’re all flagging in the Bryson household today. So I decided to give my husband’s beloved juicer a whirl. I was slightly scared of getting the combinations and amounts wrong, but it’s actaully super simple. I made Sam a melon and apple juice which he drained in a nanosecond. It’s a brilliant way to get [...]
