Sometimes nothing beats a slow cooker dinner. Having your dinner bubbling away in the slow cooker while you get on with something else, smelling the delicious aromas as the hours and minutes […]
Slow cooked Spanish chicken, chorizo, and rice
Tesco 60-Minute Roast Challenge: Our Attempt!
When Tesco offered to send us a hamper containing some helpful roast dinner bits and bobs and some vouchers to create a roast dinner – with the time constraint of one hour […]
A buttercream masterclass: An afternoon with Sarah at Kitsch Cakes
Last weekend, we were lucky enough to be invited by the lovely Sarah at Kitsch Cakes to a buttercream masterclass in her (amazing and very beautiful) kitchen. Being huge cake and buttercream […]
Veg in disguise: Secret Sausages review
In our home, we are huge fans of Dragons’ Den. Therefore, when Deborah Meaden announced that she wasn’t a fan of the taste of a certain vegetarian sausage brand, and Peter Jones […]
Chocolate Baked Cheesecake Mary Berry style (well, nearly!)
Inspired by the recent Bake Off episode (check out our review of week 4 here for our inspiration!) I decided to go for it and attempt to emulate the magnificent Mary Berry by mastering […]
A homage to fromage: Harrogate blue
Looking a touch scary in colour, it might be easy to be put off a relatively recent cheese from Shepherd’s Purse Dairy: Harrogate blue. Once you have bitten into it, though, you might […]
A homage to fromage: Chanteraine
Whilst many of the cheeses I enjoy eating are either a bit nutty or have a mushroom background to them, I felt that given my absolute love of chaource cheese and the elements […]
A homage to fromage: Tomme De Savoie
Tomme De Savoie may look a lot like Emmental and a few other more plastic and less refined and tasty cheeses if you see it without its rind, but this cheese is […]
A homage to two fromage: Époisses de Bourgogne & Brie de Meaux
For a long time, I had not been a fan of soft cheese. For me, firstly often the smell and secondly the texture were just too ripe to bear! As I have […]
Yorkshire butchers: Woodend’s in Adel reviewed
Woodend’s in Adel is our local butchers. Situated on the Otley Road, they’ve been around since 1950 and are well known for stocking meat from trusted local sources. Last weekend, when the […]