Whether you're a beginner or quite confident in the kitchen, if you would love to become a better cook, here are my best tips to improve your cooking skills. Cook often. Nothing beats practice and experience to make you more efficient and give ...
English Pancake Day Pancakes
Here is an easy classic recipe for English crepe-style pancakes traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday. English pancakes are smaller and a bit thicker than French crepes. Pancakes make a cheap and fun afternoon snack. My kids call these 'roll-y ...
American-Style Breakfast Pancakes
Here is my recipe for fluffy American-style breakfast pancakes. We eat these for breakfast every Sunday. My 9-year-old has just learnt how to make the batter herself, so I get a lie-in while she gets mixing (yesss!). The kids love their pancakes ...
How to Keep Salad Leaves Fresh and Crisp
Are you fed up with buying lettuce and it going wet, wilted and slimy after only a couple of days? Here are some tips to help keep your salad leaves fresh and crisp for 10 days! We go through quite a lot of lettuce, especially now we have our 2 ...
How Motivate Yourself to Cook
I've always loved cooking and planning nice things to eat, but sometimes making family dinners can feel like a thankless chore. When I'm tired, or the kids start pulling faces at what I've cooked, for example! Since I have to feed the family every ...
Chocolate Malt & Banana Kids Breakfast Smoothie
This is a tasty kids breakfast smoothie that my two little ones love. It is a balanced breakfast for on-the-run, or for those who aren't big eaters in the morning. It has milk, fruit and wholegrain cereal all in one package! My son loves ...
Homemade Baked Chicken Nuggets
Great to stash in the freezer for quick dinners and lunchboxes, these homemade baked chicken nuggets are a healthy alternative to shop-bought or fast food restaurant ones. I mince chicken breast in my food processor for these nuggets. Mince is ...
Weeknight Minced Beef Hungarian Goulash
This is a good recipe to try if your family loves spaghetti bolognese but you'd like to try something a bit different. My son does a little happy dance when I tell him this is for dinner, and I've rarely seen him eat anything so fast! This recipe ...
Healthy Lunch Ideas for Work and at Home
These are my favourite healthy lunches that I have eaten and enjoyed as a working mum and as a stay-at-home mum. I’ve included a handy tip with each idea to save time and effort! Have you ever found yourself getting so busy planning and making ...
Basic Sponge Cake Recipe with Super Easy Icing!
This is a classic sponge cake recipe, a great start to cake-making. It can be varied really easily to make different flavours. This is also the one to use for an English Victoria Sandwich ...