This Gado Gado salad was a new one on me and to be honest when Hubby first suggested it for dinner a couple of days after Christmas instead of the left over gammon with egg and chips I was less than inspired, it was cold outside and I really fancied…
Mince Pie Cake
I just wanted to post a very quick recipe just to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and to thank you all for following my blog and for all the lovely feedback that I have received during the year. 2014 has seen a few…
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…
Twelfth Night Cake
The Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas,the cake traditionally celebrating Epiphany in France is called a galette des rois and consists of flaky puff pastry layers with a dense centre of frangipane. Tradition…
Lemon and Thyme Cake
Happy New Year to you all ! I hope you all had a very lovely Christmas and a wonderful New Year, if you have made resolutions I hope that they are going well and you are managing to stick to them. I never make any, as I know if I…
Gamberoni al Forno
I would like to start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year and hope that you had a very enjoyable evening last night. Hubby and I decided, as the Children were all out, to stay in and celebrate with a really lovely meal, not only was it New…
Garganelli con le Salsicce – Garganelli with Sausage Ragu
I am so pleased that life is returning back to normal, after the move, snow, my back injury, Christmas and New Year it has been completely manic and I just haven’t found the time to Blog. Routine is back, Hubby is back at work and the children are back…
Chicken with herbed feta crust
Happy New Year to you all, I hope 2010 was a good one and 2011 is even better. I thought I’d start the year with good intentions of paying more attention to my blog and as is always the case, I woke this morning and my first thoughts were of…
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…