Camping Cake

Camping cake comes in many forms. The main thing of course is that there is cake when you are camping and beyond that it's really up to...

BBQ Ribs for the best weekend ever

We have a great local butcher.  The other week, I was in there and had my head turned by some mighty fine racks of ribs he had in the chille...

Camping food - Cheese & Marmite Pasties

We had another camping trip this weekend. A quick one in that we didn't head off till Saturday morning, and didn't go far - just to ...

Curry in a hurry? No, on the beach, actually - A review of the Barricane Beach Cafe

So the second May Bank Holiday is upon us. The Husband is still in the desert and I have escaped North for a couple of days, before returnin...

Caramel & sour cherry flapjack - or what M&S don't want you to know

It comes to something, doesn't it, when you're ripping your own recipes out of magazines.  That makes me sound terribly grand but th...

Freedom - and chewy fruit bars

One of my favourite things to do is to drive into the sunset. Usually on a Friday evening, heading west down the A303. Who cares that it...

Where Food meets Fiction "The School of Essential Ingredients" - and White Cake

Looking back from this dreary October evening, as the rain lashes down outside, and I can barely face heading down the garden to shut the c...

Damp Weather? No, Dampers

So, another wet morning dawned and I contemplated the school run and dog walk, once again smothered in wet proofs. Pink had left her wellies...

Fish & Chips and Reminiscing - Padstow, 9 years on...

The last time we went to Padstow, I was 6 or so months’ pregnant with Blue. It was, I suppose, our last holiday where we were free to do wha...