Homemade Basil Pesto My herb garden is my pride and joy. I'm no gardener, not really, but for some reason, my herb plants seem to thrive with minimum care. Which may have more to do with the climate here in Greece and not my skills (or lack of) as a gardener? With my basil plants producing so ... [ Read More ]
Simple Chocolate Squares Recipe – Too Good For Children
Easy Chocolate Squares Recipe Recently I was asked to make a sweet treat for a fundraising high-tea. Being short for time, whatever I made had to be quick to throw together, but be moreish too. What to bake? What to make? Then I remembered this easy chocolate squares recipe I used to make for the ... [ Read More ]
Greek-Style Marinated Fresh Anchovies Recipe (Marinated Gavros)
Greek-style Marinated Anchovies (Marinated Gavros) The Greeks love their fish and like to keep meals simple - my kind of cooking. Now anchovies (gavros) may not conjure up images of a delicious light lunch to most people. If you've had those awful, mushy sad anchovies in a jar, I promise you ... [ Read More ]
The Classic BLT Sandwich
The Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home When I realised that last week was National Sandwich Week, I knew that a BLT sandwich recipe had to be the next post in my Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home series. I never quite managed to get it out on time, but better late than ... [ Read More ]
Perfect Fried Eggs
The Young Persons Guide To Leaving Home To start with I thought I would keep The Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home nice and simple. I think it makes sense and if these posts are a touch to simple, then I apologise! When I told my daughter that I was sharing a 'recipe' for perfect ... [ Read More ]
How To Cook Runny Eggs And Soldiers
The Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home My daughter is in her last few weeks of school and it won't be long before she will be spreading her young wings and flapping off into the big wide world. She and other young people like her would probably like to imagine themselves as gliding off ... [ Read More ]
Slow Cooker Chicken, Egg And Lemon Soup (Greek-Style)
Slow Cooker Chicken, Egg And Lemon Soup (Greek-Style) I'm a huge fan of the slow cooker. Food preparation may not always be quicker, but just the sheer convenience of being able to sling ingredients into a slow cooker and forget about it suits me down to a tee. And nothing beats the feeling of ... [ Read More ]
Greek Style Lentils Cooked In The Slow Cooker
Greek Style Lentils Cooked In The Slow Cooker Last Monday was Clean Monday, which in Greece is the start of Lent, which is traditionally a time when many Greeks give up meat. From now until Easter it's vegetables all the way (not for us, I'd be lynched for even making such a suggestion). If ... [ Read More ]
Fruit & Nutella Pancake Toppings
The First World Nutella Day Did you know that February 5th is the very first World Nutella Day? Oh yes. Nutella has such a following that it warrants a day of recognition all of its own. How did I learn this wonderful snippet of information, you might be wondering? I read my fair share of blogs ... [ Read More ]
Slow Cooker Dog Food
Slow Cooker Dog Food Cook this slow cooker dog food for your dogs and I promise you they will love you forever! It was last winter when a friend told me that since feeding their older dog chicken bones she seemed to be less stiff and recovered faster after a long walk. Needless to say, I was ... [ Read More ]
Slow Cooker Tomatoes, Basil And Aubergines
Slow Cooker Tomatoes, Basil And Aubergines I don't know about you, but once the warmer weather comes I usually put my slow cooker back in the cupboard and forget about it until winter. Which, when I think about it is pretty daft considering how busy summer is, and using a slow cooker would make ... [ Read More ]
Slow Cooker Chickpea, Tomato And Bacon Recipe
Slow Cooker Chickpea, Tomato And Bacon Recipe I love my slow cooker. It's not so much a time saver as food still has to be prepared, but I do love being able to prepare the food at a time that suits me. I am very much a morning person, so a meal prepared early in the day, for me, takes half the ... [ Read More ]
Sweet Chocolate Heart Dessert
Sweet Chocolate Heart Dessert Even the least romantic people in the world would appreciate the love that has gone into making this sweet chocolate heart dessert. I know, 'cos I'm one of them and if someone made one for me, I would love them forever! We are seeing romance everywhere at the ... [ Read More ]
Coconut Shortbread Recipe
Coconut Shortbread Recipe This week I had planned to make some shortbread and update the photos in my previous shortbread recipe. My plan changed when Hubby returned from a shopping trip with yet more desiccated coconut instead of coconut chips! Having plenty of desiccated coconut already I ... [ Read More ]
Lemon Curd Ice Cream Recipe
Lemon Curd Ice Cream Recently I shared a lemon curd recipe and thought how nice a lemon curd ice cream might be. I do enjoy a nice homemade ice cream and so set about creating a lemon curd ice cream recipe. For which there was no shortage of tasters! These days, with the advent of cheap and ... [ Read More ]
Simple Fresh Lemon Curd Recipe
Fresh Lemon Curd Recipe I don't know about you, but I do enjoy a nice, tangy, fresh lemon curd. Yes, it is readily available in supermarkets, but when it comes to taste and tanginess, it takes something to beat a homemade version. We are lucky enough to have an abundance of fresh lemons, on my ... [ Read More ]
Malteser Ice Cream recipe
Malteser Ice Cream Recipe I've been holding off sharing this Malteser ice cream recipe since last summer, but now the weather is positively summer like, I think it's time to share, don't you? Making ice cream at home isn't the chore it used to be before the introduction of domestic ice cream ... [ Read More ]
Roasted Red Pepper And Fresh Tomato Soup Recipe
Simple Roasted Red Pepper And Fresh Tomato Soup It's been a long day. You're cold and summer seems a long way off. What better way to warm up than with a nice bowl of steamy hot homemade roasted red pepper and fresh tomato soup? Soup is the perfect winter comfort food, it's filling, satisfying ... [ Read More ]
How To Cook Christmas Dinner In Advance
Shhhhh... Don't tell anyone, but the only way I manage to get Christmas dinner on the table on Christmas day is with preparation; I cook and freeze the roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings (Mum loves them), pigs-in-blankets and stuffing in advance. In This Post... I am going to show you how to cook ... [ Read More ]
Homemade Honeycomb
Was Our Bad Friday Treat... For anyone who doesn't know what bad Friday is in our house (and why you?), it's the one day of the week when we can eat bad food and watch bad television (and the men of the house go out and play pool). I'm not saying that we don't occasionally treat ourselves mid ... [ Read More ]
Banoffee Cake – My Emergency Birthday Cake Solution!
I Had A Bit Of A Situation On My Hands It was my Dads birthday and we had no cake! Mum had asked if I could cook a meal over at ours for Dads birthday (I have no idea why my social butterfly of a Mum couldn't do it herself, but I agreed). It was only going to be the six of us, so it wasn't a big ... [ Read More ]