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
Top Ten Tips for Perfect Christmas Dinner full of tips, recipes, how to, hacks, in fact everything you need to make your Christmas day go with out a hitch.
With a time line chart to ensure your turkey gets to the correct temperature on the special day along with tips to make food ahead and store in the freezer or fridge. So much more ….
Toasties -10 Top Tips to the Perfect Toasty. Let’s face it , melted cheese and golden bread , a match made in toasty heaven. This Top Ten Tips to the perfect Toasty is full of hack, recipes and tips on fillings and bread as well as a few flavour combinations to try thrown in.
Here are my top ten tips to making the perfect pesto. Using fresh herbs to make pesto , or even vegetables is the way to make pesto taste great. Here are tips, hacks, tricks and recipes to make sure your pesto is perfect
Ganache, my perfect go to treat. Thin, thick or somewhere in between, I don’t care, I love it all.
If you learn to make creamy smooth ganache, you’ll never have to think too hard for a dessert to make.
Adding ganache to desserts or even making ganache the main component of a dessert, is the easiest thing to do and I’m sharing these top tips, hacks and recipes so that you can enjoy chocolate ganache as much as I do.
Top Ten Tips to making the perfect Mac & Cheese. The best and easiest mac and cheese recipe and tips, hacks and tricks to make sure yours turns our creamy with a crunchy topping. This top ten list will have you adding this to your family recipe book and eating it at least once a week.
Ten top tips to making the perfect choux pastry along with recipes and tricks to the easiest and tastiest parmesan and rosemary gourgeres with goats cheese and mascarpone filling. Recipes for pistachio cream, chocolate sauce and vanilla cream helping to make the easiest cheese puffs , profiteroles, choux buns you’ve ever seen. Delicious choux cheese puffs.
Chocolate Chip Cookies -Ten Top Tips to Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies. I’ve made a few in my time, few thousand more like it! I’ve put together my top ten tips to make the perfect chocolate chip cookies along my favourite recipe for Chewy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies too. First things first, it’s impossible to have chocolate chip cookies without a recipe, so scroll to the end to find the perfect recipe to make the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Tapas - Top Ten Tips to the Perfect Tapas. I don’t know about you, you, but if I’ve got the choice, I’ll always order a small bite tasting menu and if that’s not possible, you’ll probably find me surrounded by several appetisers rather than one main dish. Here are a few top tips i use when I’m wishing for sunshine and sangria
Buttercream - Top Ten Tips to the Perfect Buttercream. The thing that makes every cupcake special, every wedding cake worth slicing and every unicorn cake perfect and magical. Buttercream is an easy thing to make once you’ve made it a few times, but it can go wrong in so many ways, that’s why I’ve put together top ten tips to the perfect buttercream.
Top Ten Tips to Baking the Perfect Cake. I used to make cakes for a living, so I have a few tricks and tips up my sleeve to make sure that from start to finish, cakes are light, airy, tasty and stress free. I thought I’d share my favourite tips with you along with a few recipes too. Once you’ve cracked the code to making great cake, you’ll be showing off with them all the time. You might not be making cakes like the one shown above, but once you’ve started , you don’t know where it may lead.
Top Ten Tips to the Perfect Charcuterie. Tips, hacks and recipes to help make sure your platter is perfect and everyone will love it.
Charcuterie, meat platter, plate of meat or just calling it a stuff to eat. Whatever you call yours, a charcuterie is a great way to welcome unexpected guests or have as a centrepiece to a table. It’s such an easy plate to put together, that I use it often as a backup when people ‘drop by’.
Top Ten Tips-To Cooking the Perfect BBQ Food
Tips , recipes, tricks and hacks to have the perfect BBQ this summer. Don't let the sunshine go to waste, get the grill on and warmed up so have fun with friends and family. Read on to find out everything you need to set yourself up for success for your BBQ. Whether your an expert or just a novice, you'll find something to help you here.
Ten Top Tips to the Perfect Picnic. Tips, hack and recipes ideas to make your picnic easy and fun.
It’s really easy to get stuck in the same old pre-packed sandwich rut. Just for the record, my favourite pre-packed sandwiches are egg mayonnaise and those prawn ones with lots of seafood dressing-my not so guilty secret! But with a little imagination, it’s not necessary to break the bank or have to go out shopping just for picnic food ingredients, it just takes a little imagination to turn eating al-fresco into a fun day out for everyone.
I’ve put together a top ten list of tips, tricks and food recommendations to make venturing outside to have fun a little easier to organise.
Top ten tips to making the perfect salad and much more besides. Looking for inspiration for a good salad this summer? You’ll find it here! Tips, tricks and recipes to help you get the most from your salad. Find out which leaf is best for which dressing, how to pickle a radish, what to use to add crunch to your salad in this ultimate ‘how to’ salad list.
Ten Top Tips for Eating Your Way Cool This Summer. Having a heat wave is a pleasure but sometimes it’s difficult to keep cool. Here are the top ten tips to eat your way cool this summer. Stay cool with ideas about food and what to do in the heat.
