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
Christmas Sprouts with Spam - Spam Christmas Sprouts recipe for Karbon Homes. No more soggy sprouts with this recipe using Spam. Golden, crispy Spam and sprouts will make you love your greens again. Ditch the boiled water and get out the frying pan to make the easy Christmas sprouts. Add this recipe to your family favourites and bring it out every weekend
Goats Cheese & Onion Soup. Creamy with soft onions and celery, it’s the St Helens Farm cheese and milk that gives it a unique flavour. Serve this soup up with sprinkles of crispy bacon bits, fresh chopped spring onion and big chunks of crunchy bread, so none of this warming soup goes to waste.
Festive Spiced Hot Chocolate Recipe. Drink yourself, making for friends or leaving it by the fireplace for Santa, this Festive Spiced Chocolate is the perfect tipple this winter season!
St Helens Farm goat milk (find their website here) mixed with real milk chocolate, helps make the spiced chocolate creamy and delicious.
Orange & Ginger Festive Biscuits
Orange & Ginger Festive Biscuits-Using Goat Butter
Get the Christmas baking bowl out is always fun, and with these Ginger and Orange Christmas Biscuits made with St Helens Farm Goat butter, is worth getting all the family involved in the fun!
Delicate orange and ginger flavoured biscuits decorated with an orange icing is enough to put a smile on Santa’s face, if there are any left for him to try!
Goat Cheese, Red Onion & Cranberry Tarts are a perfect little bites of tart. Using St Helens Farm milk and cheese give it a unique
Goat cheese tart, a must have for any occasion, add cranberry and balsamic onions and it sits well on a festive table! Light pastry using St Helens Farm Butter holds the perfect mix of St Helens Farm Mature goat cheese, sweet of cranberry sauce and he sharp balsamic red onion equals the perfect festive bite.
Festive Brioche Bread and Butter Pudding. A delicious Christmas alternative to Christmas pudding. Made with goat milk, baked in a water bath to keep the centre soft and moist, this recipe is a perfect dish to make for the festive season. Take the festive season to another level and use goat milk to make individual or one large pudding. Christmas pudding at its best.
Goat Butter Mince Pies with Goats Cheese Pastry using St Helens Farm goats cheese and butter . A traditional recipe with a twist of modern. Delicious pastry that works well with any thing festive.
Goat Brown Butter Cauliflower Cheese made with St Helens farm goat cheese, goat butter ad goat milk. Easy to make, easy to eat and the brown butter turns a simple dish into something that tastes luxurious. Creamy cauliflower topped with beautifully crunchy breadcrumb topping.
Goat Brown Butter Pan Seared Salmon with Lemon, Spring Onion and Parsley. Soft, slightly opaque salmon sitting in a bath of lemony goat brown butter with chopped fresh parsley and a generous handful of sliced spring onions. `its an easy use pf brown butter packed full of flavour. Easy to easy and even easier to eat
Goat Brown Butter Mince Pie Blondie with Dark Chocolate Chips are the perfect things to be making this Christmas. Brown butter is the sexy ingredient right now, and in this recipe i’ve used St Helens Farm goat butter to make the brown butter even more delicious. A perfect dish to make for Christmas, for guests or just for you.
Brown Butter Cookies are nutty, sweet, delicious and should be eaten in large quantities! Making brown butter is easy to make and the uses are infinite. Once made, it won’t be long before you’ll be adding these brown butter cookies to your favourite baking list. Easy to make and easy to eat , so get to making brown butter. Its worth it!
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.
It’s always great when I get the opportunity to work with companies that have fabulous produce, and St Helens Farm certainly does great goat cheese.
Asked to develop the ultimate goat cheese charcuterie platter, I couldn’t help but also break out a fabulous recipe for goat cheese and oat biscuits to go with it.
Freezing all the seasonal fruit thats around right now is a great way to preserve it and save it to use another day. Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s difficult to do, it’s super easy to do , just a little time consuming. This is an easy step by step way to freeze fruit.
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
Choux Buns with Brown Sugar Craquelin Top and Vanilla Mousseline Cream Recipe , easy to make at home but good enough to bring out when you want something to impress visitors. Choux pastry filled with a rich, smooth and glossy mousseline cream and topped with a brown butter craquelin, giving it a sweet crunch to balance it all.
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!
