Veggie meal plans – week 2
Week one of our veggie meal plan went well. We only deviated once when I discovered we had rancid mushrooms, so the stroganoff became a veggie risotto. Trying a few new dishes again this week, so expanding our repertoire and…
3 bean chilli – recipe
We are being vegetarian for January, we love chilli, so tonight was a meat free 3 bean chilli, what beans you use in your 3 bean chilli is up to you. What follows is more a guideline, something you can…
Macaroni Cheese – recipe
Macaroni cheese, Mac n Cheese, Mac and cheese, call it what you want, macaroni in a cheesy sauce is one of those things that takes me back to being a kid. It was one of the first things I learned how…
Resolutions 2017
Last year I did not make any resolutions, I just had a vague bunch of things I wanted to do. I did not really achieve any of my goals. All my won fault. Mostly being lazy, but also not having…
Mushroom, butternut squash and spinach risotto
Mushroom, butternut squash and spinach risotto was an accidental thing. Tea was supposed to be a mushroom stroganoff, sadly some of the mushrooms had turned so, there were not enough left to feed two. Mr asked, do we have risotto…
Favourite food
Food makes me happy, I love reading about it, cooking and eating. I love feeding people and seeing smiling faces when they enjoy one of my creations. I’ll never be on a diet or eat simply for fuel. I am…
A taste of Summer salad
You know those things you buy on a whim and then they sit unused in a cupboard or the freezer? In our case the thing was a bag of frozen edamame beans. We finally got around to using them last…
Meal planning Monday – A short week
I’ve had a bit of temporary work, so blogging, housework, the garden and just about everything else has been neglected, the work now done I find myself free for now…. So I am starting to learn a bit beyond the…
Golden Fish – Mytholmroyd – Chinese takeaway
The Golden Fish is my local Chinese takeaway and I am so glad it is, after years of avoiding Chinese takeaway I decided to ‘risk it’ so many locals seemed to love the food from here and now I can…
Yorkshire Puddings
Yorkshire puddings or batter puddings as I grew up calling them are probably my favourite part of a Sunday roast dinner, crisp and light and wonderful dunked in gravy, they are one of lifes simple pleasures. They do seem to…