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
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is the December 2024 book Foodie Book Club members are reading tis month.. The recipe, Turkish Style Spiced Lentils with Pumpkin, Chicken, and Aleppo Pepper, is gifted to go along with our reading, is by Ben Tish, a master of Mediterranean cuisine.
November 2024 Foodie Book Club chosen book is Bridgerton: The Duke & I by Julia Quinn with a Recipe by Ciara Turley, the Tummy Fairy.
The October read for Foodie Book Club is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus with a Moms Recipe by Elle James (Shameless Elle).
Read the book, cook the food and read all about Elle James and how she became Shameless Elle.
Memoirs of a Geisha is the book Foodie Book Club members are reading in September, and they're cooking Samantha Smiths recipe for gluten free Mini Apple Pies.
Find the full recipe for these delicious mini bites of apple surrounded by fabulous gluten free pastry right here. You can also find out more about Samantha and why she's an advocate for type one diabetics everywhere.
Read about the only book Arthur Golden every wrote and his book, Memoirs of a Geisha.
August reading is Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue with Recipe by Orla Drumgoole who is Irish Mammy Cooks
Foodie Book Club August read, review and recipe is all here. All you need to settle down with your feet up, cup of tea in hand, piece of delicious cake by Orla Drumgoole and a good book.
July read for Foodie Book Club CIC is Bournville by Jonathan Coe and recipe by the generous Sam Balshaw who is Hungry Woman Cooks.
Find it all here. Book review , author bio along with recipe for Sams crispy skin chicken and how Sam became Hungry Woman Cooks.
June read for Foodie Book Cub is Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson - Charimaine Wilkerson, known as a Caribbean-American writer who’s now based in Italy.
Find the book review , bio and recipe by John Godwin for Tropical Buns
Spending time living in Jamaica, Charmaine now does a lot of her writing in Italy where she has lived, along with her family, on and off for 20 years.
Death and Croissants by Ian Moore & Recipe by Ian Moore - May 2024 read for Foodie Book Club. A comic who dunnit by a comedian who writes ‘funny’ with ease .
Find the review and bio for Ian and Death & Croissants (first in the comic crime series, set in rural France) along with his recipe for Boiled Ham with Fizz, a sticky ham straight from Ian Moores kitchen.
The Foodie Book Club read for April 2024 is Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce. A book about Alison, the central character, who is flawed, unreliable and vulnerable in a very human way. With affairs with a colleague, suicide, and a marriage that she’s trying to keep together, Alison starts to see the parallels in her marriage and the client she is defending for murder.
The recipe, Orange and Lemon Custard Tart, is the perfect dish for this book. Put your feet up , get the kettle on and eat some tart while you read the book.
Foodie Book Club March read is Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan with a personal recipe gifted to us by the amazing Chef James Sharp.
Reviews and recipes, what could be more entertaining and fun!? MasterChef the Professionals, chef James Sharp , has a recipe for Parker Rolls that will blow your mind.
February Foodie Book Club read , Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, book review and recipe for Brown Butter Cauliflower Cheese recipe using Goat Cheese.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett Recipe by Chef Kasae Fraser
Foodie Book Club January 2024 read is The Help by Kathryn Stockett with a Recipe by Chef Kasae Fraser of MasterChef the Professionals fame.
Chef Kasae has gifted a recipe for her Sauce Charcutiére with Pork Chops, a recipe that she loves.
As well as this amazing recipe, find how Kasae started her career, what’s next for her and how it felt to be on MasterChef the Professionals
Find book review for Kathryn Stockett first book, The Help which was made into a successful movie and find out how Kathryns personal history helped with her writing career.
Under the Cajun Moon by Mindy Starns Clark with Recipe by Jenn Lee, December read for Foodie Book Club. Jenn Lee, contestant on MasterChef Australia ,has gifted us one of her favourite recipes for Dak Gal Bi. Find my egg rating fo the boo, full recipe, bio for Jenn and Mindy Starns Clark.
November 2023 Foodie Book Read is Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen with a recipe by MasterChef Australian Kayma Vasquez. With an egg rating of 4 out of 5, this book os well worth reading. Find out what it’s all about, book review and lots about the author Sarah Addison Allen.
Kayma Vasquez, MasterChef Australian MasterChef, has gifted us a recipe of Bolos de Arroz Portuguese rice cakes, a favourite recipe which she loves. Find the full recipe and lots about Kayma and what she’s up to after MasterChef.
Foodie Book Club October read is A Decadent Way To Die by G. S. McKevett with a recipe for smooth and creamy Burnt Basque Cheesecake from Kate who is Newcastle Foodie and Become Social Ltd.
With a review of 3 1/2 eggs, this book is worth a read, after all, who can resist a crime solving, feisty Southern private detective who loves her grandmother. With lots of cooking references as the plot develops, our detective Savannah Reid, gets to delves into the mystery of who is trying to kill the person who made the Helene doll.
Kate from Newcastle Foodie and Become Social Ltd, has gifted us one of her loved recipes, and what a recipe it is too. Soft and creamy with a berries to give it a tart contrast, find the full recipe on my pages.
A review of Burning Down George Orwell's House by Andrew Ervin for Foodie Book Club September read and an amazing BBQ Recipe gifted to us by the amazing Alex from Hunter Gatherer Cooking.
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Recipe by Olayemi Adelekan for this months Foodie Book Club read . An egg rating from me and a fabulous recipe for a Nigerian Puff-Puff by MasterChef semi finalist Olayemi Adelekan.
June Foodie Book Club read is A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev with recipe by Lee Majhen-Todd.
May read for Foodie Book Club is Ghosts by Dolly Alderton with a recipe for fig cake by MasterChef Professional competitor Gabriella Margiotta.
interviews with Gabriella Margoitta and an interview with Dolly Alderton (taken from other sources), tell lots of inside stuff about the people, books and the chef who has gifted us the recipe for May.
