Gingerbread Tablet - tastes like Christmas!
What does one do when faced with a full and unopened carton of single cream, and real butter in the fridge needing used up, when still unable to eat dairy?&l...
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Breakfast Club 17: Banana Bready Bread
Now that I’m officially on holiday, I am catching up on a blogging backlog, still in my PJs whilst Mini-M is having a morning nap. Of course, she will probab...
Random Recipes 11: Rocket Parmesan & Pear Salad (sadly without the parmesan!)
December’s Random Recipe Challenge - hosted by the ever ingenious Dom at Belleau Kitchen was to make a recipe from a cook book that you rarely use, then give...
Christmas Playdough
Whilst I was researching my edible gifts article for the Daring Kitchen, I came across this Fall Spiced Play Dough recipe at Creating Nirvana Today. Yes, I k...
A Picture A Day: Week 50
It’s been a bit of a week of lurgy here, mainly for Mini-M who has been feeling very poorly, with a snotty nose, hacking cough, gunky eyes, temperatures, shi...
Coconut Chocolate Truffle Torte (Shh! It’s dairy free but no-one will ever know…)
Quite a few years back, I remember our family having Delia's chocolate truffle torte one Christmas, specifically because, since I lived in the 'big city' at ...
Daring Cooks’ December 2011 Challenge: Cha Sui Bao
Our Daring Cooks’ December 2011 hostess is Sara from Belly Rumbles! Sara chose awesome Char Sui Bao as our challenge, where we made the buns, Char Sui, and f...
No Croutons Required: Festive Photos
No Croutons Required is usually a monthly vegetarian soup or salad challenge, but for December hosted by Jacqueline at Tinned Tomatoes we’ve been asked to sh...
Ninja-bread men!
I have to start this post with a shocking confession…Almost a year ago, the lovely Miss M gave me some very funky biscuit cutters. For the first couple of mo...
Christmas Card Chaos
Last week, Mini-M and I tried to make a Christmas card for Mr E.I’m really pleased with how it turned out - but it belies the chaos that went into making it!...