Mackerel Salad with Beetroot, Apple, Walnut
Whether using canned fish or vacuum packs, healthy mackerel salad recipes are an essential store cupboard stan…
French Inspired Recipes
A collection of French-inspired recipes for home cooks. Having travelled to France over 70 times, French cooking techniques and flavours often come home with me.
These French-style dishes and pastries use accessible ingredients and are designed to be easy to cook in your own kitchen.
Strawberry Chocolate Cake with Rose Ganache
> If you like Turkish delight you’ll love this Strawberry Chocolate Cake smothered in thick milk choc…
Rhubarb Muffins
When rhubarb comes into season, don’t just make rhubarb crumble, try out these rhubarb breakfast muffins…
Easter Cookies with Paté Sablée – Handmade Easter Bunny Biscuits
Cheerful Easter Cookies with flowers, rabbits and easter eggs. Not quite what I planned making but they do loo…
Good Friday Macarons – Easter Cookies
Mac Attack 6 is underway at MacTweets, hosted by Deeba and Jamie, this month’s theme is April holidays. Althou…
Lemon Macarons with Rosemary – Fresh Spring Flavours
The theme of this month's Mactweets Macaron Challenge was "spring flowers". I have deviated from this a little…
Lemon Custard Dessert with Cookie Crumbs
A quick and easy pudding today. I have been lolling on the sofa watching Julie & Julia on dvd after a cupc…
Butternut Taleggio Tart
Spar was the local supermarket on the Midland’s council estate where I spent my teenage years. With humm…
Chocolate Crepes Suzette – Spectacular French Flambé Dessert
Chocolate Crepes Suzette is a chocolatey twist on traditional French flambéed pancakes with orange sauce. Sinc…
Pancakes with Fudge Sauce – Revamp Your Classic Crepes!
Classic crepes get added pizzazz as pancakes with fudge sauce and chopped hazelnuts. This post was originally…
Blueberry Cinnamon Tarts
In the novel “Blackberry Wine”, Joanne Harris’ follow up to Chocolat, the protagonist inheri…
Chocolate Custard Puddings
What to do, what to do with a heap of egg yolks from my various macaron making disasters? (See what happened…
