Yeah… it’s Luca’s 9th Birthday tomorrow and we have been celebrating all weekend. We have done a major spend in Toys R Us, Olly has spent the whole weekend building Lego for him and racing on his Scalextric, he has had his chosen Birthday dinner of Chinese tonight and…
Baked Polenta with Spinach & Goats Cheese
I love anything Italian, everyone knows that and I love to cook Italian food. The one thing that I have never cooked or I don’t think I have even ever tried is polenta! I have promised to try and cook lots of different things, trying lot’s of new methods and…
Market Kitchen : Big Adventure
A little while a go I posted on here my excitement of being asked to be a guest on the new series of Market Kitchen! Hubby and I went off to London and spent the whole day filming, we had loads of fun and met some great people, but now…
Orange and Blackberry Trifle
As a busy Mum on work days Hubby usually cooks, just so I get a break and because he uses cooking as way of winding down after a stressful day, but tonight I decided we needed a quick dessert as we always crave something sweet after dinner. After 6…
Linzi’s Healthy Breakfast Bars
Over the last few months of my Blog I have introduced you to my gorgeous Hubby, my lovely Children and a few of my Friends, but I haven’t as yet told you about Linzi. Linzi and I have been friends for a few years now, we met as our…
Green Tomato Chutney
Hubby and I decided to grow tomatoes this is year, it didn’t go quite to plan as we went away to Tuscany and forgot to ask Sam who was looking after the house & cat to water them. By the time we came back they were a little stunted to…
Roasted Sweet Potato(Butternut Squash) Risotto with Wensleydale
I have exciting news, I will be appearing as guests on the new series of Market Kitchen with Matt Tebbutt, terrified, excited and nervous are only a few words to describe how I am feeling about this. This all came about because I follow Market Kitchen on Twitter and…
Indian Sweet Potato (Butternut Squash) Curry
Well the latest news on the home front is, that we may actually have a new home, I’m not actually holding my breath as we have had disaster after disaster with our journey to finding a place to lay our hat’s, but heres hoping that finally this could be home….
Chocolate Pear Temptation
My thoughts recently have been about Christmas, where will we be living, what style of house and how perfect our present home is for Christmas. I have viewed house after house, all far smaller than ours and with kitchens which frankly could never inspire me to get out there and…
