It was my birthday on Saturday and my gorgeous Hubby spoilt me rotten. My day started with breakfast in bed, my favourite french toast with figs, very indulgent I know but hey, it was my birthday. I had a lazy morning opening presents & cards, then got ready to get…
Risotto with Red Peppers
I just love cookery books that you can pick up, cook from and the recipes work every time, and Light of Lucia, so far is proving to be one of those sort of books, packed not only with gorgeous recipes like this risotto with red peppers, it is also has…
Zestes D’Oranges Sechees – Dried Orange Zest
I have just finished reading Cooking in Provence, by Alex Mackay and again, as is always the case, the book is over flowing with post it notes, highlighting all the recipes that I want to cook. This week so far I am cooking all Italian recipes from Light of Lucia,…
Ricciarelli
Well Christmas is over for another year and I received the most gorgeous Christmas presents from Hubby, a pile of cookery books! I can’t wait to get cooking and blogging. I know I keep promising to blog more and I was going to cook the complete Jamie Oliver 30 Minute…
Vassilopitta – New Year Wish Cake
Well finally I’m back and so much has happened since my last blog, we have finally moved, waited nearly four weeks for broadband, had snow and been snowed in and I fell over on the ice and have been bed bound. So pretty manic as usual, not much time for…
Hollandaise Sauce
My darling Hubby made me the most amazing breakfast in bed on Saturday morning, it was just going to be poached eggs on toast until I joked that hollandaise sauce would just make it perfect. What a Princess wishes, a Princess gets ! Hubby returned with two perfect…
Rosie’s Millionaires Shortbread
My beautiful daughter Rosie has a friend that makes the most amazing cakes, My favourite having to be by far Millionaires Shortbread. Rosie has recently made my Chocolate Fudge Cake for her boyfriends family and decided to have a go at the Millionaires Shortbread and it was gorgeous, not…
Pasta, crunchy chicory & watercress salad, little frangipane tarts
We are now into receipe 2 of our cook our way through Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals Book and we have another winner. We are beginning to wonder, will they all be this good! What is nice about this book is that there is a whole spread of food,…
Becky comes to dinner.
I recently brought Hubby, Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals Cookery Book and he loves it, so much so that he has decided to do a Julie & Julia and cook his way through the book. As we progress I will post our favourite recipes. It’s just what a busy family…
