Baker & Foodie Content Creator
My name is Lee, welcome to my pages. I hope we can have fun together?
When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing guest blogs, writing my own blog, or even trying to learn how to paint, I’m usually spending time with the amazing Mr G (my husband) or with my lovely daughter or my lovely son (very proud mum).
What is this all about? Great question. This site is about real cooking and baking, real recipes and real mistakes.
No filters here, (although i’d love to find a filter that can take ten years worth of laugh lines away. Just me, whats happening, and whatever cameras or phone i have to hand .
There are many things that get under my bonnet and wiggle around, one of those is food waste. If i buy ingredients specifically for a recipe, and i only need a small amount of the ingredients, i want to be able to use the rest up and not have to throw them away. My mum used to say , “Waste not Want not” is that still a saying ?
For me, waste is not just about using up all the ingredients. What about leftover food? If i’m able , i hope to give ideas as to how to use up any leftovers too.
Be Brave
Cooking isn’t hard , neither is baking, its all about being brave and being ok with making mistakes
I know people like to plan ahead and make sure they are organised ahead of time, so below you can find the books planned for the next few months. I’m excited to get reading!
Even though these books and most of the guest chefs with recipes are planned, don’t be upset if they change without any notice. Sometimes it’s impossible to factor in life and work.
2024
January - The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
February - Pineapple Street
by Jenny Jackson
March - Now She Is Witch
by Kirsty Logan
April - Blood Orange
by Harriet Tyce
May - Death and Croissants
by Ian Moore
June - Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson
July - Bournville
by Jonathan Coe
August - Learned by Heart
by Emma Donoghue
September - Memoires of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
October - Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
November - Bridgerton: The Duke & I
by Julia Quinn
December -
2023
January - Black Coffee
by Agatha Christie
February - Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
March - Envy of Angels
by Matt Wallace
April - The Lager Queen of Minnesota
by J Ryan Stradal
May - Ghosts
by Dolly Alderton
June - A Bollywood Affair
by Sonali Dev
July - Eat, Pray Love
by Elisabeth Gilbert
August - Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
September - Burning Down George Orwells House
by Andrew Ervin
October - A Decadent Way to Die
by G. A. McKevett:
November - Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen
December - Under the Cajun Moon
by Mindy Starns Clark
2022
January - A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
by Molly Wizenberg
February - Edible Stories
by Mark Kurlansky
March -The Sugar Queen
by Sarah Addison Allen
April - Kitchenby Banana Yoshimoto
May - Quentins
by Maeve Binchy
June - The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
July - The School of Essential Ingredients
by Erica August - Confused Spice
by Mathis Bailey
September - Delicious
by Ruth Reicht
October - Julie & Julia
by Julie Powell
November - Liquor
by Poppy Z Brite
December - Blackberry Wine
by Joanne Harris
2021
January - Five Quarters of The Orange by Joanne Harris
Recipe by Jenny Linford
February - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Recipe by Saliha Mahmood Ahmed
March - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Recipe by Tony Parkin
April - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsoliver
Recipe by Mark A Reid
May- Plying for Pizza by John Grisham
Recipe by Matt Follas
June - Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain
Recipe by Lee Majhen-Todd
July - State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
Recipe by Tony August - The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard C Moral
September - Olive by Emma Gannon
October - The Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle
Recipe by Lee Majhen-Todd
November - When in Doubt Add Butter by Beth Harbison
Recipe by Ping Coombes
December - A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
2020
July - The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakuruni
Recipe by Dina Begum
August - Julia’s Chocolates by Cathy Lamb
Recipe by Jane Devonshire
September - Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Recipe by Hrishikesh Desai
October - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk
Recipe by Samira Effa
November - Blessed are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Recipe by Oliver Certain
December - Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Recipe by Irini Tzortzoglou