Brussel Sprout Salad - Looking for new ways to consume these small green beads of flavour can sometimes be hard work, so why not eat them in their purest form!?
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
Brussel Sprout Salad - Looking for new ways to consume these small green beads of flavour can sometimes be hard work, so why not eat them in their purest form!?
Melting Sweet Potatoes with Garlic Brown Butter. This sweet potato dish is deep with flavour from the chicken stock and rich with flavour from the garlic brown butter, resulting in potatoes that melt into a soft and delicious side dish.
This is seriously good cauliflower rice.
Garlicky, buttery and with a fresh hint of lime, it’s the perfect side dish to have with almost everything, and I do have it with almost everything.
Layers of sweet butter cream covering soft delicate cake with the tartness of jam, all in all a slice of heaven with or without a cup of tea.
If you’ve never butter creamed the outside of a cake before, be brave, it’s really easy to do.
Tinned Tuna Cakes recipe for Karbon Homes using pantry ingredients .This easy and incredibly tasty recipe uses ingredients you’ve probably got in your pantry and fridge. Cooking should be fun, no stress and this dish is just that .
No need to spend hours in the kitchen, these tinned tuna cakes will soon be added to the family cook book.
Goat Cheese Caprese Salad with Goat Cheese & Walnut Pesto- Caprese salad is always a popular choice to add a tri-colour plate to a buffet table, but adding St Helens Farm Mature Goats Cheese & walnut pesto sends it into a spiralling taste sensation!
Spicy Peanut Butter Spaghetti Noodles with Carrot & Tomatoes recipe for Karbon Homes. This is such an easy recipe to make and even easier to eat. Using spaghetti instead of noodles make this dish one that can be made quickly with ingredients from the pantry and fridge. A family dish everyone will love to eat .
Chocolate Dipped Chocolate Chip Oat Cookies.
Oat cookies are a much-loved treat and most people have some sort of recipe that they fall back on when they have a need for an oaty treat.
A pinwheel biscuit is a beautiful thing to behold!
It’s the contrast of the dark and the light, of the vanilla and the chocolate layers together, wrapped around itself making a pretty wheel of biscuit.
Not too sweet, this biscuit is the perfect thing to sit on a plate when visitors come knocking.
The crunch of the toasted breadcrumbs, the slightly salt flavour of St Helens Farm butter and yoghurt, and the tang of zaatar (a perfect mix of toasted sesame seeds, dried sumac salt and other spices) transforms simple lettuce into a side dish that’s special!
Make more or make less, all you have to do is adjust the ingredients!
Inside the steaming hot pot is a dish of potatoes with layers of St Helens Farm yoghurt, milk and cheesy goodness, tasty enough to sit on any table.
This is the perfect example of a few ingredients coming together into a finished recipe that is easy to make and just as easy to eat.
Goat Buttered Leeks recipe - the easy way
Chocolate & Salted Caramel Self Saucing Pudding recipe . A warm dessert of chocolate with a decadent sauce of salted caramel and chocolate, and with no more effort than it takes to boil a kettle.
With the use of St Helens Farm butter and milk to add extra indulgence to this pudding, it’s easy to see why this is a favourite!
Lamb is such a great meat, but I do find some of the more popular cuts are expensive.
Rolled lamb breast is overlooked a lot by lamb lovers, and I think I have a reason for this.
Well, let’s be honest about it, it’s not he most photogenic of meats when cooked, but if you’ve not sank your teeth into this, it’s well worth switching the oven on.
Chicken, Leek & Yellow Pepper Tart, a recipe I make for a light lunch, when friends come over for an afternoon of chats or as part of an afternoon alone when I just want to get my book out and munch on something comfortable and full of flavour.
You know I love chicken, so more often than not there’ll be some part of a chicken in my fridge, and this is another way I get to use every bit of the leftovers.
Tahini buttercream is an amazing alternative to peanut butter buttercream, and as much as I love a bit of peanut butter, the taste of tahini buttercream brings bakes up to another level of deliciousness.
The subtle taste of sesame seeds is amazing sandwiched in between chocolate biscuits and helps to bring out the richness of the biscuits.
Chocolate Dipped Green Tea Biscuits
Tea isn’t just for drinking, its great as an infusion and used in cooking too!
My favourite tea is green tea, and my everyday preference for a hot tipple, is Clipper Organic Green Tea, loving the subtle flavour – not too strong for an everyday tipple, so because I like the flavour to be a little restrained in these biscuits, this is what I normally use in the batter.
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.
Pistachio & Lemon Financiers
I’ve made my little financier cakes using pistachios ground up to a nut flour and love the flavour and texture they give.
There’s something about the pale green colour of pistachios that makes me smile. Using them in cakes and as a substitute for other nuts when cooking adds something quite special.