Home cooked recipes from a Farmhouse kitchen
Getting the whole family to eat the same thing can sometimes be a struggle but with children (babies especially) enjoying sweet things more than savoury, this pork and apple stew recipe has proved a winner for weaning right through to Hubster and it couldn’t be easier. You will need: One British pork chop per…
Pulses and grains are some of the healthy, nutritious and filling foods you an eat. Indeed, The United Nations has declared 2016 to be the International Year of Pulses. Pulse crops such as lentils, beans, peas and chickpeas are a critical part of the general food basket, according to the UN. Pulses are a vital…
Every Christmas I see those bags of nuts in the supermarket. I remember as a child, my Nana used to get them and she kept them in a wooden bowl (possibly nut shaped) on a table with a nutcracker next to them. I remember sitting by them and looking at the strange shapes and smelling…
The problem with writing about this year’s Christmas cake recipe is that most cooks (unless you made it in July) will not have tasted it yet. Undeterred, I am bringing you my 2015 offering with a warning. If it turns out wrong, don’t blame me. I have based my cakes in the past on Mary…
For the past two years, I have finished my Great British Bake Off ‘bake-along’ journey at bread week. I don’t know what it is, but I seem to always fail miserably. Now my friends, my yeast-prayers have been answered because the king of baking and bread making, Paul Hollywood has brought out his very own…
Baby G is nine months old now and the weaning is going great. We are doing a mixture of feeding styles-mostly spoon feeding but allowing to choose from a range of foods on his high chair tray to get used to chewing and holding foods. At this stage, I think he has eaten a lot…
You know how passionate I am about British produce and seasonal food. November is the beginning of the British leek season and oh how I love those long, soft scented vegetables. Even before I was approached to write this post, I got caught sniffing a bunch of leeks as I queued up to pay in…
In the Summer, I got to visit a turkey farm in Lymm, Cheshire. You can read about it here. The lovely Paul from Crouchley Hall Farm, invited me back this week to see how the birds were getting on. This is how they looked in July. This is them now. My how they’ve grown. Since…
We did our pumpkin carving last week to coincide with a school competition which we didn’t win. I was so, hopeful until I saw the other entrants. Wow. Put it this way, I will be doing my pumpkin carving homework until next year.* One thing which did turn out though was what I used the…
These are a grown up Halloween treat. Saying that though, Boo quite enjoyed them too. Ingredients Sweet desert pastry-enough for 12 tarts 1-2 desert apples* sprilised Toffee sauce. You could make dulce de leche but as I only needed a small amount, I just bought a small jar. Icing sugar to dust-I used Sugar and Crumbs,…
