A full English breakfast (eggs, bacon, sausages, baked beans, fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms and toast or fried bread) is one of my favorite meals. Pretty much anything with fried, soft-boiled or poached eggs in is one of my favorite meals but an English breakfast is delicious for so many other reasons too! I’ve been trying to […]
In the last few weeks most of my little plants have suddenly started to flourish! We had a few weeks of good sunshine, and then the weather turned cold and cloudy, but I think those warm weeks were a wake-up call. It looks like I’ll be eating strawberries in a few weeks’ time! My oregano […]
A few weeks ago, I roasted a whole duck crown and only used half for my Duck & Spring Onion Pasta recipe. The richness of the duck made it super tasty so I wanted to experiment with another rich pasta sauce for the other half. If you don’t have a pre-roasted duck breast I’m sure you […]
One my main goals as part of my attempt to take better care of myself is to include more vegetables in all our meals. Pasta sauce seemed like an obvious place in which to sneak additional veg so I decided to try adding butternut squash puree along with the usual tomato. Turns out this also […]
If you follow me on Instagram you’ll have seen me post about this incredible tomato, avocado, cilantro salsa that I just can’t stop eating! It’s so fresh and delicious and it goes with everything, or on its own for lunch. It originally came from this recipe for beef tacos which I made a week or […]
Today was the first truly warm day this year, hot even! I just spent several very pleasant hours pottering in the garden, potting out the seeds I started a few weeks ago. I added some tomato seeds a few weeks ago and they sprouted and grew so much quicker than all the others, it was […]
