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 tagged food and drink
Oat and Goats Cheese Biscuit Recipe
A biscuit thats perfect to eat alone or use them to hold piles of cheese and cut meats!
Not a difficult biscuit to make and not a biscuit thats designed to stay in the cupboard for weeks, once made, they’re best eaten within a few days.
It’s the addition of goats cheese that makes these biscuits so delicious and i use St Helens Farm mature goats cheese to give them their umami flavour , it works really well too!
Orange & Lemon Custard Tart Recipe.
With a bowl of oranges, a couple of lemons added and my trusty pantry ingredients of castor sugar, flour and eggs, this Orange & Lemon Custard Tart is what I came up with. And I’m so glad I did, because it turned out creamy with a gentle tart kick and a smooth velvety mouthfeel.
An easy recipe to use fresh cherries on this Fresh Cherry Frangipane Tart. Let the super juicy cherries drip down into the warm golden frangipane as the cherry glaze shines on the top. An incredible way to use seasonal cherries .
Its slightly browny, sightly caky but 100% indulgent! A dense fudgy cake, so go to another recipe of your looking for a light and airy cake. The cake itself is moist because of the courgettes, rich and indulgent because of the cocoa, and as if that’s not enough, the delectable smooth dark chocolate ganache certainly tips it over the edge.
Avocado and goats cheese dressing is perfect for salad and to smear on some toasted sourdough with a few slices of crispy bacon. Drizzled on this fresh mackerel and prawn salad giving a creamy dimension to this already filled salad.
Sweet Potato & Wild Garlic Gnocchi in a Three Tomato Cream Cheese Sauce with Charred Sesame Oil & Ras El Hanout Courgettes recipe has a few steps to it but is a super easy dish to make.
Enjoy the gnocchi in a big bowl with the charred courgette on the side. Gnocchi is a great make ahead dish, letting them sit in the fridge until the next day. Just re-heat the sauce, cook the gnocchi and then let them sit in the warm sauce until each one is coated in the sauce.
Coconut Layer Cake with Fresh Lemon Curd & Fluffy Piped Coconut Butter Cream Frosting
This is a cake recipe I wanted to share with you, mainly because it tastes wonderful. The combination of the creamy, tart freshly made lemon curd and the slightly sweet coconut is truly a match made in tastebud heaven, and has a texture that makes me think of sunshine.
