Slow Cooker Beef Ragu & Banbury Apple Pie

The Banbury Pie is linked to a town in Oxfordshire and is from a recipe found in a 1928 newspaper.  You will find this and many of these wonderful British recipes in Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The History of British Baking, Sweet and Savoury by Regula Ysewijn

The WWW Lasagna & Lemon Curd Tiramisu

Relaxing into cooking and trusting yourself is far more important than following a recipe.  Often we don’t have the exact ingredients or the correct size pan or piece of equipment and we have to improvise.  That’s when the magic happens. 

Fifty-fifty bolognese

Here we are slowly and gently entering back into the Wine Wednesday’s with the blessing of the Premier.  I do hope you and yours remained well through this difficult and unusual time. 

Classic Surf & Turf & Fig Parcels

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” – Julia Child Hello everyone, Don’t you just love this quote from Julia Child?  I know most of us have to diet at some stage or other in our lives, but gosh it’s boring.  I’m a great believer in […]

Beef with Bourbon & Cola & Lemon Blueberry Cheescake

Beef with Bourbon & Cola Women’s Weekly Cooking for Friends Pg 45 Blueberry Lemon Meringue Cheesecake Women’s Weekly Cooking for Friends Pg 125 Hi everyone, I hope you have had a great week and tried out some new recipes from your collection of cookbooks. This week I used the slow cooker again (always a bonus […]

Corned Beef & Citrus Delicious

Corned Beef Country Women’s Cookbook (original) Citrus Delicious Taste.com “This magical, marvellous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell, a journey.  It leaves a footprint.  It leaves a legacy………”  Joel Salatin   Hi everyone, No truer words could be said than when applying them to the Country Women’s Association […]