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, … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
