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 leeandthesweetlife
Sometimes there isn’t enough time in the day to spend hours making and decorating a cake, but even when the days a rush, there’s always time to make this Pink Prosecco & Pistachio Loaf Cake with Pink Prosecco Icing. This recipe is easy to bake, moist to eat and satisfying enough to make everyone happy. Perfect for any celebration, mothers day or birthday and easy enough for even the children to get involved.
Orange, Lemon Basil Shortbread Biscuits with Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Jam Filling. It’s always nice to have a few biscuit recipes that can be pulled out to impress when guests arrive, and if those recipes have ingredients that ‘shouldn’t’ go together, but taste amazing, even better.
This is one of those recipes!
Mixing citrus zests and fresh basil may sound a little unusual, but when baked in a not too sweet short bread, the flavours become one delicious and very moreish biscuit.
Gift - Cookies in a Jar recipe. Making these gift jars for family and friends for Christmas , birthday or for any celebration . Choose a flavour that you love and substitute this for the sprinkles in this recipe. Sprinkle sugar cookies are a great present , adding all the ingredients in the jar, writing out the method on a pretty card is bound to make someone smile.
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 .
Making this easy blackberry custard tart isn’t difficult. This blackberry custard recipe is so easy to make and delicious to eat. Cooking with seasonal fruit is the what this tart is about, a perfect tart to have when ever there are blackberries in season. Custards tarts don’t need to be vanilla, especially when they taste this good and are tis easy to bake
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.
Lots and lots of basil ,both dried and fresh, with tons of black pepper, all goes to make the tomato sauce luxurious , layered and as if it has spent hours on the stove top being mixed with love.
This tomato sauce is a keeper!
Unbaked cheesecake, a staple at most get togethers in the UK, probably because it’s so blooming easy to make, and this Fresh Peach Jar Cheesecake isn’t any different.
Perfect Hand Stretched Goats Cheese thin based pizza with stuffed crust & home-made charred cherry tomato Sauce. So easy to make it should be added to your family recipe book. Using St Helens Farm Goat cheese in the charred crust and on top of the pizza makes it perfect for any get together or tea table.
Lamb Peka- A Croatian Lamb Dish , a recipe that needs to be in every family recipe book for those days that you need amazing flavours but don’t want to work too hard. Full of flavour and a Croatian dish and sends love smells around my kitchen every time i make it.
