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
Tomato & Gruyere Cheese Galette with Black Onion Seeds is another dish I bring out a lot when I have a tons of people coming over, its especially fabulous when tomatoes are in season and there’s a lush of amazing colours on the shelves.
A mix of large and small tomatoes, all placed cut side up makes this inexpensive and easy dish look like I’ve slaved over it for hours and it has cost way more than it actually has!
Birthday Biscuits with Lemon Curd Icing. The buttery biscuit topped with the creamy tart royal icing and the beautiful pale sprinkles, are perfect to make for any birthday-no matter what age.
Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Swirls love shortbread, although I don’t make it too often!
I think the reason is, I can’t just eat one, especially if they’ve had a chocolate bath!
As shortbread should be, these are light and melt so easily in my mouth, which doesn’t help with any attempt on my part to eat only one.
No Egg Pomegranate Ice Cream.
Make this ice cream vegetarian by using plant based double cream.
It’s such an incredible recipe, so fresh, so creamy that it can very well be mistaken for a more complicated ice cream that has a custard base, but it’s not!
There are only four ingredients in this ice cream and it doesn’t need any more, honest, not another thing could make it any better.
Wild Mushroom, Leek & Gruyère Quiche recipe , so easy to make and amazingly tasty. A quiche that tastes home made, because it is. Everyone should have a great quiche recipe , and this is it!
Frangipane, Lemon & Ginger Marmalade Pizza. If you’re lucky enough to get your hands on a jar of Taste Of The Mediterranean Lemon & Ginger Marmalade, don’t hide it away and forget about it, get to work and make this friendly frangipane, lemon & ginger marmalade pizza.
Croatian Fresh Fig, Honey & Mascarpone Tart. Crisp, short pastry filled with a creamy filing with as many fresh figs as i can fit in. Not too sweet, with an amazing mouth fill, a tart that will impress anyone who sees it without having to spend hours making it.
Raspuknuti Keksići – Croatian Dark Chocolate Crinkle Cookies . Such an easy cookie to make and with such a chocolatey taste that you'll want to add it to your favourite cookie list. Translated as ‘Break up Biscuits’ because of the crinkle look, the dark chocolate is the thing that makes the taste so decadent.
Trogirski Rafioli, a Croatian cookie that is a perfect bite to offer guests with a nice cup of tea. Every households claims to have the perfect and original recipe . Im not claiming that, just an easy recipe that tastes great.
Lemon Curd & Lemon Gin Breskvice - Croatian Cookies with Lemon Curd and Lemon Gin Filling A twist on a traditional Croatian Peach Breskvice made with fresh lemon curd and lemon gin for the cakey filling. An easy Croatian cookie to make and a very pretty cookie to see.
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.
Juicy, Slow, Oven Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Quick Greek Yoghurt Flatbreads
The easiest slow cooked lamb recipe surrounded by the easiest no yeast wrap . Smeared with an amazing sauce that sinks right into the meat leaving it moist and incredibly tasty.
Pile it all up with crispy shredded white cabbage, spring onions and radishes with a bite, add a layer of caramelised onions and then wrap it all up in a no yeast greek yoghurt flatbread. Yes please!
Frozen Blackberry, No Cook Cheesecake with Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Base
Everyone should have a no cook cheesecake in their recipe book, and if you’ve not got yours as yet, this is the one to add to your. An inexpensive and super easy dish to make and using frozen berries makes it something you can put together quickly and without a lot of notice too!
Blackberry, Caramelised Onion and Goats Cheese Quiche
Not just amazing to eat, it’s so pretty to look at too! Try the combination and you’ll be hooked for good.
Plum Tarte Tatin with Port Caramel - Sweet but not sickly. Pastry but not starch heavy. Fruit but not really one of my five a day and with undertones of port in the caramel sauce, it has a little feel of being a grown-up pudding! What’s not to love?
Leftover curry - This is exactly what it says it the title, a curry using what I had in the fridge, and that included cauliflower leaves and stalks, radishes, some cooked celeriac, a handful of mini tomatoes, an onion and half a packet of wild rocket.
Fresh Berry Pavlova with Mascarpone Chantilly Cream
When a meringues comes out of the oven, I know that spring has sprung and summer is on its way!
This is the easiest meringue to make, full of delicious mascarpone and Chantilly cream and then brimming with the freshest of berries. Not too sweet, perfect for a summer meal outdoors and just enough chewy to make it worth my while.
Crispy Fried Cauliflower with Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce. This is a great recipe make to eat cauliflower. easy to make too! Eaten hot or cold, either is delicious.
If there is any left over from its first eating, breaking it up and adding it to an salad and dribbling the dip over the top is an another amazing way of eating it1
Roasted Belly Pork Lettuce Cups with Harissa Greek Yoghurt, Celeriac Coleslaw and Pickled Mushrooms. A perfect dish to eat on a sunny day in the garden.
Cider Dressed Potato Salad. A potato salad with a tangy dressing thats so easy to make .Its perfect to those summer BBQs or as a side for roast chicken or a big juicy steak
