I thought that is was about time that I brought you something a little naughty, something with chocolate in and something that the whole family would love, simple to make, nice and quick, these marshmallow brownies fit the bill perfectly. I know that I already have a brownie recipe on…
Honey and Almond Cake
As you can see by the flowers in the photo, I made this cake a little while ago, the reason for the delay in writing up the post is that the recipe came from the Country Living magazine, May edition and I let a friend borrow it, now I have…
Gluten Free Peach Cake
I promised you cake and here it is and what a great day to be given cake… its Friday !!! I love baking on a Friday as it means that we have cake for the weekend and I love nothing better than a nice piece of cake with my morning…
Baked Spaghetti with Chorizo, Mozzarella and Eggs
This very rich, very yummy baked spaghetti with chorizo, pepper, eggs and mozzarella has to be one of the nicest recipes ever, the recipe is for two and we enjoyed it in the garden in glorious sunshine over the weekend, but all I could think of was how much Stephen,…
Italian Easter Biscuits
Last week my lovely little Luca had to make something for Food Technology of his choice, related to Easter, they could remake the Easter biscuits that they had already made in school but it was an exercise to inspire parents to bake with their children at home as we were…
Gnocchi di Semola
So day two of our Italian recipes and I must say, another great success. In the past I have to admit to huge failures when making gnocchi, any recipe that has potato in goes haywire, any made with ricotta or semolina I seem to have great success with and these…
Tortelloni di Zucca
Life has become so busy and Hubby and I have got into a bit of a rut with our meals, so we decided to sit down and find some lovely new recipes, we both love to cook from scratch using gorgeous ingredients and bring these meals that have been made…
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…
Old Fashioned Cherry Cake
It was my birthday on the 8th January and I had such a wonderful day and was spoilt rotten. Hubby and I have been together coming up for 9 years this year and he has always taken the day off for my birthday so that we can spend the day…
Italian Doughnuts
Happy New Year everyone, I hope you all had a very lovely Christmas and are ready to take on the New Year. I have set myself a few challenges for the coming year, one is to finally sort out our vegetable patch and grow our own veg for the coming…
