Home cooked recipes from a Farmhouse kitchen
We love ratatouille in our house. It’s such a versatile dish. I use it as an accompaniment, a cooking sauce over meat (or quorn), a pasta sauce and, if you add a bit of stock, even as a soup. I usually buy it in a tin but homemade is so much nicer so,…
Not having a drink when I was pregnant with Boo just wasn’t a problem. This time though, there has been more than one occasion when I could have really done with a glass of wine or a vodka. Maybe it is something to do with looking after a small child, who knows? I obviously haven’t…
I like to do some kind of traditional pudding every Sunday. It is usually a cake type thing, crumble or pie with custard but this week I fancied a change. So, I made It is so easy to make. Our local shop is a Sainsbury’s local and they didn’t have any pudding rice so I…
It’s only 15 weeks until Christmas, Sorry to scare you. For most of us, that’s only four, maybe five pay days. How do you fancy winning £750 worth of vouchers for the likes of Boots, Toys R Us, Amazon and Early Learning Centre? Your Christmas shopping would be sorted. Well, thanks to Betta Living, you…
This is one of my favourite ever desserts. I say dessert, some may describe it as more of a pudding but hey ho, it is… I make variations of this all year round. Even adding mincemeat at Christmas to give it a lovely festive feel. I hate sticking to recipes so, if you fancy adding…
So for this week’s Great British Bake Off, it’s bread. Now I don;t make bread-products very often. My ‘full of effort yet little success’ really comes into its own here. I don’t have a bread maker so it’s good, old-fashioned kneading for me. I decided to make something that the whole family enjoys. I used…
I can’t believe a week has passed. Here we are on episode two of the Great British Bake Off and this week’s episode is all about biscuits. The humble biscuit really is a British institution and it is personal taste as to whether they contain cream, jam, nuts, fruit or just plain. I asked people…
I acknowledge myself that a lot of the things I do are met with much enthusiasm yet little success. It never puts me off, I always have a go. This can certainly be said from my latest Great British Bake-off inspired bake. Messy it certainly was. I used a Mary Berry recipe for the sponge…
As everyone’s favourite baking show, the Great British Bake Off begins again, I thought I would share my own favourite cake recipe. You will need: 8oz wholemeal flour 8oz caster sugar 8oz butter (I used St Helen’s Farm Goat’s Butter) 4 eggs 1 Lemon For Filling Lemon curd 10 oz Icing sugar 5oz butter Lemon…
I work in Manchester and often cut down Old Bank Street to get to Market Street, where most of the shops are but I had never set foot in Annie’s. Annie’s is a delightful hidden gem in the heart of the city, just off the historic St Anne’s Square and located in the Royal Exchange…