When I decided to look at my diet and started to eat healthily I thought that incorporating it into my every day lifestyle and also making it interesting would be very hard, also with a really bad sweet tooth and a love of cake as big as mine I actually thought…
Curried Chicken Couscous
As you know we have become a family that is trying to ‘eat cleanly’, Rosie and I are embracing the new regime and we are actually achieving more than 80/85% which is what is required to do the diet properly, we have not been missing chocolate or cakes, when we…
Lemon Brown Rice Salad
So here is CLEAN EATING recipe number two, Lemon Brown Rice Salad, I know the photo may make it look a little bland, but don’t under estimate this yummy, filing and very good for you salad. We had it as a main dinner last night but it would be great…
Citrus French Toast
I have a couple of posts to write today and I just had to start with this one, in the photo above is myself with my gorgeous brood, I know if you go back over my blog you will find a post written especially for each one of my gorgeous…
Roasted Garlic, Rosemary and Spelt Loaf
I am not going to go on today about the wonders of spelt flour and how much better it is for your digestive system, but instead I am going to let the above photo speak for itself, this has to be one of the most gorgeous, tasty and wholesome loaves…
Date Cake with Zesty Cream Cheese Icing
A new year is here and as I mentioned in an earlier post my baking mojo has disappeared, I think all this rain has washed it away, but just recently I have started to crave a slice of cake again. Like many of us over Christmas I put on a…
Salted Caramel Apple Pies
This morning I woke to a stunning Autumnal morning, the garden had been given quite a dusting of sparkling white glitter from Jack Frost and it was so beautiful. It made me aware that our Autumn days will soon be behind us and that Winter will be well and truly…
Jasmine Cake
When the Primrose Bakery Celebrations Cookery Book dropped through my letter box the other day I knew straight away that this Jasmine Cake would have to be the first cake that I baked. I have been looking for the perfect Jasmine Cake for my blog for a while now, as…
Granary Loaf
I am sorry, I know, its another bread recipe, but with all this soup making we need bread and I just don’t fancy eating the same boring bread day in and day out, so if I find a good one, I just have to share it with you, and boy,…
Spelt Muffin Tin Buns
If you are a regular reader of my blog you will already know that I am a huge fan of spelt flour and I use it where ever I can in recipes, it is an ancient relative of modern wheat, the spelt grain (triticum speltum) was widely grown by the Romans….