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
One Pot Coconut Milk & Turmeric Baked Chicken Thighs with Spring Greens & Potatoes
A chicken dish that you can serve to your family and any guests. Remember the days when we could invite people to our houses to eat? This is the dish to share with your friends but don’t forget the the chunks of bread to sook up all that incredible sauce.
Charred Aubergine with Red Pepper, Tomato, Chilli & The Only Way Is Gin Sauce. Plate by Linda Bloomfield.
Make sure you’ve got a few hunks of crusty bread handy to soak up all that incredible sauce.
Clams with Prawns, Peas & Wild Garlic - Easy to cook and tasty too, and with those shells, you get to slurp up any sauce that gets caught up in them. Using this seasons wild garlic adds its unique spring flavour leaving a sauce yoi’ll want to dunk chunky bread in to . Don’t waste a drop
Wild garlic hummus , one of the easiest wild garlic recipes around. Pates by the very talented potter Linda Bloomfield
Baked Salted Caramel & Pecan Cheesecake, a go to dish (in some form or another) to make when I’m feeding the many.
The easy cheesecake recipe you’ve been looking for and can be adapted to make different flavours too.
Wild Garlic Butter - Probably one of the easiest ways to make a flavoured butter otherwise known as a compound butter. Just a chefie word for a butter with something else added such, as in this case, wild garlic. Plates by the talented Linda Bloomfield
Wild Garlic & Goat Cheese Filo Pie
I’m back to the wild garlic again for this recipe., wild garlic and goats cheese filo pie, filo pastry being one of my favourite pastries. I love the very thin crispiness of it and i especially love the buttery flavour that it holds.
Not something you’d think to make everyday, adding wild garlic and walnuts to oatcakes, but these are a little bit special, especially when you eat them with some great cheese. The easiest oat cake recipes, easy to store and freeze.
Wild garlic & bacon bread baked in a cast iron pot . I love bacon in anything, but in this bread, add it to the garlic and it has a balance of flavours that is perfect. A fool proof easy bread recipe with the perfect texture and the perfect flavour. Using foraged wild garlic and crispy bacon this bread is going to be your favourite.
Devilled eggs, such an American thing to make , but once you get your head around it, you’ll agree with me that a hard boiled egg white, is the perfect vessel for, well, most things, and definitely this easy peasy devilled egg filling.
Croatian Easter Bread - It’s a dense fruity bread filled with flavour and because it’s covered in egg yolk before baking, it goes a dark brown when it comes out of the oven. More flavour.
Easter- Coconut & Chocolate Chip Macaroon Nests . Easy cookies to make for your Easter celebrations for you and your family. Add nuts or leave them out it’s up to you, which ever you do, you wont be able to resist them so make double so that you wont run out.
Sheet Pan Chicken with Sprouts and Butternut Squash. No Measurements Recipe
A dish using one sheet pan is the perfect way to cook for a weekday meal, or for one of those Saturdays where you want good food, but would prefer to spend the day outside
I Can’t Be The Only Mum Who Thinks Mother’s Day is Rubbish?!?
Thoughts about Mothers Day and three easy recipes, using pantry ingredients, to treat your Mum.
Gluten Free, Pastry Free Mini Tinned Salmon and Red Onion Tarts, Lemon Biscuits with Crystallised Lemon and Vegan Double Chocolate Brownies.
Number One of Depression Club, Don’t Talk About Depression Club & Good Mood Food
Lee & The Sweet Life spills the beans on what depression is like for her and shares good mood food and full recipes such as overnight cold oats, banana bread and kefir leek and red pepper scones.
No valentine celebrations just a Gin Chocolate Cheesecake Tart . Make this for your sweetheart and make them extra happy . Chocolate and gin lover? This is the perfect bake to give them this valentines day
Spicy Flower Sprouts with Ginger, Shallots & Almonds, Rhubarb, Pistachio & Honey Galette with Orange & Gin Gluten Free Pastry & Whole Garlic Roast Chicken with Orange & Bacon full recipes
I develop recipes, and because Foodie Book Club is in partnership with Booths, I get to use their supplier’s fabulous produce to cook with.
If you can’t make the live cook on Saturday 11am, you can watch again on our Foodie Book Club YouTube channel, where you’ll find so many other great live cooking from amazing top chefs.
Madarica cake , a traditional Croatian pastry layered dessert perfect for the festive season. Layers of light pastry with a chocolate layer thats not over sweet and a glaze that tips this dessert over the edge. Make for Christmas or any celebration and you’ll bring a smile to your household. Forget COVID-19, spend time in the kitchen with your family bubble.
Christmas isn’t Christmas without a layered Christmas pie. Layers of turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, onion and bacon all add to make this pie a family favourite. With a gin pastry using Ribble Valley gin, you’ll never have a soggy bottom again,
Slow Cooked Pork Carnitas with Sugar Snap Pea, Walnut & Spring Onion Pesto. Something to cook on a day you want something tasty that you can prepare before you go out for that long walk, come home and get right down to eating.
With an easy pesto that can be adapted to suit you, all on a wrap of your choice.
