Chicken and Butter Bean Stew with Polenta

Very easy but heartening quick stew about 2 minutes preparation , one of those store cupboard dishes , just have to remember to take the chicken out the freezer , alternatively they defrost in warm water in about 25 minutes. Stuff being health conscious , crispy chicken skin makes everything better .
Chicken and Butter Bean [...]

Coconut and Lime Macaroons

I am not a big chocolate eater but I do have a soft spot for a Bounty Bar ( featured here on the stunning Chocablog ) sadly its a bit cold and rainy to venture out.
Making some food for the weekend anyway so while the oven was in cooked some Coconut and Lime Macaroons [...]

Gingerbread Stars

Chrismas Gingerbead Cookies in the wild ,eaten while walking the coastal path in Devon , the red blobs are actually Scarlet Elf Cap Wild Mushroom growing in the grass. This is probably going to be my Christmas card .This image has been submitted to the Eat Christmas Cookie event on Food Blogga- foodblogga.blogspot.com
Are [...]

Carrot and Apricot Cake

After the success of the sticky gingerbread last week I am in a baking frenzy for the upcoming weekend away attempting to prove my domesticity and provide sustenance for the planned mammouth walks.

Mostly carrot cakes are made with raisins not a big fan of these and I never have any in stock , do have [...]

Mushroom Soup for the Soul

Returning home from the weekend the fridge is pretty empty other than a box of mushrooms from the vegebox , I could eulogise forever about how different these babies are to anything you find in a supermarket instead of going slimey to indicate they are reaching the end of their lives delicate gills [...]

Spicy Parsnip and Squash Soup .

While raiding the boyfriends fridge found some leftover roasted parsnips and squash from last weeks roast dinner , I hate waste , its been chucking it down for hours now so some soup seemed the logical option for this weeks Sunday lunch. This would work with any root vegetable and excellent for using up [...]

Chunky Vegetable and Lentil Soup

Urggh Frustrating Day – work has “upgraded” my laptop with Windows Vista so even trying to type a document. Just formating a simple document means hours tracking down all the standard functions under cutesy irritating graphics – its time to go Mac.
To calm myself at lunchtime made an incredibly easy and [...]

Butternut Squash White Beans and Black Kale Soup

I have written before about my love of the combination of beans and kale in a spicy chorizo soup.
With more kale in the vegebox this lovely soup is a great vegeterian option, you could use potato instead of butternut squash , iI just thought it would be a pretty colour combination . It thickens [...]

Spicy Fishcakes and Asian Slaw

Wanted something a little bit wicked and spicy the asian slaw is deliciously fresh and crunchy next to the oily smokiness of the fishcakes.
Just grabbing a bunch of coriander the rest of the ingredients were in the house already
Spicy Fishcakes
Makes 8
200g potato – mashed with the skins removed
100g of smoked salmon / or cooked salmon [...]

Sticky Gingerbread

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As Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated across the UK on the 5th of November obviously , always seems a bit perverse that the foiling of conspiratorial plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 should be celebrated 400 years later by setting of hundreds of tonnes of fireworks

On bonfire [...]