Life with a dash of ADHD for good measure
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Fig with goats cheese and walnut salad
There’s something about a beautiful salad that feels effortlessly impressive. The kind of dish that looks like it came from a café menu, yet takes almost no time to throw together at home. This fig with goats cheese and walnut salad is exactly that.
It’s fresh, colourful, ...
Don’t like lettuce? Try baked lettuce instead…
Baked lettuce? It’s actually delicious, I promise.
I am not a fan of lettuce, or at least iceberg, romaine, cos etc. They all seem rather tasteless and mostly a mouthful of watery crunch to me. Ok in a decent salad but boring and not really much to get excited ...
Warm Roasted Lettuce Salad with Poached Egg & Crispy Chorizo
This is warm roasted lettuce salad with poached egg & crispy chorizo of those simple meals that feels far more special than the effort involved. Warm roasted romaine, a softly poached egg, crispy chorizo and crunchy homemade croutons all come together into something ...
Gluten free and dairy free chocolate cupcakes
I have adapted this gluten free and dairy free cupcakes recipe, it's actually a cake recipe, but can be used for cupcakes or for a normal layered chocolate cake. This recipe makes about 24 cupcakes or enough for a normal sponge cake if you prefer that way. I've also tweaked ...
How to re grow your potted hyacinth plants
Hyacinth plants are one of my favourite spring flowers. They smell so wonderful and when they appear in my garden, I know that spring really is coming (and for me, not being a fan of winter, it's a fragrant sign of hope) I have bulbs that regrow in my garden year after year ...
Gluten free & dairy free Victoria Sponge cake recipe
This is an easy recipe for Victoria sponge cake, a classic tea time treat. But we make ours gluten free and also dairy free. This recipe is easy though, and I promise it works.
A traditional Victoria sponge is often made using the “weigh the eggs” method because it creates ...
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