I love having an excuse to cook and bake and the holidays are always a great one. After Christmas Easter is the first time many families have the opportunity to meet up again especially if you live far away from your family, like me. I enjoy making something at home to take to these family gatherings, I find it is like a gift that you take, it make...

I find that one of the best things about cooking at home, in your own kitchen - besides the sheer pleasure it gives me - it is to know exactly what ingredients are going into my food. This is even more of a delight if you are allergic or intolerant to something....

I feel I should apologise for being a bit absent lately. Although we've been posting our recipes I don't feel I have been looking after our blog as much as I did a couple months ago, and haven't been as active reading the food blogs I enjoy reading so much....

I think everyone that is familiar with this blog knows that I have the biggest sweet tooth. And I am going to guess that most people’s first experience in the kitchen is around a sweet recipe. Who here has never helped their mum or grandma growing up by separating eggs or greasing a cake tin? Back home from the moment I was able to use the oven u...

This week my aim was to find a recipe that would help me to use up at least a little bit of the redcurrant and vanilla jam I made a few weeks ago. The jam turned out pretty well and redcurrant is one of my favourites, but I was looking for something to highlight the taste of these little guys even more....