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  • There’s something fishy going on!

    It’s that time of year again…festival season! I’m not talking Glastonbury or V Fest, I mean the ‘foody’ type – the type I get invited to! It’s a great excuse to look for, and think up, new and different recipe ideas to experiment with. Last weekend I was at the BBC Laugharne Live event at […]

  • Student SOS

    Student SOS- It’s time to get cooking! This year has been quite a quiet year in our house. Last October the eldest child, our firstborn, left home, and went off to university. She left an empty bed, a half empty wardrobe, a spare car on the drive, four siblings a Mum and Dad.   From […]

  • A super winter warmer After weeks of what can only be described as incessant and torrential rainfall, we have suddenly been forecast a drier colder week.  At last!  Okay, it may get cold, but at least we get a break from the dampness that has virtually become the norm.  Crisp, beautiful sunny mornings lift our […]

  • Egg-citing Times!

    Egg-citing Times Despite it being early February, in the depths of winter, there are subtle changes out there that indicate that change is on the way. If you find the winter months to be long and drawn out, and if you find the dark nights and gloomy days really test your mood, you’ll be so […]

  • Christmas Terrine! Yum :)

    Leftovers! Not everyone’s favourite! Leftovers, can conjure up images of inedible, weird combinations of old and dried out veg and gravy! Well, this needn’t be the case! Any leftover vegetables, meat or salads, if well looked after, can be made into fantastic meals of their own. When I say well looked after, I mean, treated […]

  • The Christmas Kitchen

    I love cooking at Christmas – what can beat the cosiness of being indoors creating delicious extravagant treats as the cold December rain hammers against the windows?  What can beat the pleasure of working with a hot oven when it’s cold, dark, wet and windy outside?  I love to decorate the kitchen with fairy lights […]

  • Thrifty Ideas for the Kitchen

    Getting ready for Christmas! Well, we are now well and truly into November! The excitement of Autumn washed away by days and days of drizzly weather! Welcome to reality…..the wet Welsh winter! Oh well, we’ve had it good ‘till now, with the clocks turned back, we now have to face the facts, dark evenings, and […]

  • A Half Term Treat

    A Half Term Treat Fed up of pumpkin soup?? Fed up of bonfires, fireworks and toasted marshmallows?  How about  multi coloured autumnal leaves and Conkers?  Well, we’ve had a long autumn! Yes, of course autumn is always the same length in days and weeks, but this year it feels longer. It’s been exceptionally mild and […]

  • What’s for Supper Mother??

    What’s For Supper Mother?  (Or “What are we having for tea, Mum??) Okay, What’s for supper Mother sound terribly old fashioned, even a little bit posh, but every Mum understands that dilemma.  I shouldn’t be sexist, I’m sure it’s a dilemma that also faces many Dad’s too.  So what IS for super in your house […]