This recipe for sausage rolls can be adapted to include your favourite herbs and is quick to make. Party food that everyone will enjoy could not be easier! Christmas is great because it’s when we all make the time to get together with family and friends. We catch up on what everyone has been up to, find out what they all have planned for next year and generally have a good time. Christmas parties/breakups also tend to involve lots of yummy party food. And we can get away with eating more of … [Read more...]
Easy Christmas Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are great for when you need a Christmas cookie recipe that is quick and easy. They hold their shape perfectly and are delicious to boot! I have a confession to make – I have never made a sugar cookie before now! To be perfectly honest I hadn’t really even heard of them until recently. I’m sure that I have seen them before but because they look so much like shortbread biscuits I have ignored them. Big mistake! You see until recently I have never really enjoyed Christmas … [Read more...]
One Bowl Chocolate Walnut Cake
When you need a tasty chocolate cake in a hurry you can’t go past this One Bowl Chocolate Walnut Cake. Topped with walnuts this cake doesn’t even need icing! I have been craving chocolate cake lately! I know, I know I’m supposed to be counting calories but we all need to eat chocolate cake every once in a while! Don’t we? I know I do! :) I’ve been drooling over images on Pinterest just waiting for the perfect recipe to pop up. And when I mean perfect recipe I usually mean quick and easy. … [Read more...]
Sweet and Crunchy Cinnamon Palmiers
These cinnamon palmiers are very addictive because they are so crunchy and sweet. They are also a treat that anyone can make because the recipe is so easy! I have recently been introduced to an amazing little pastry snack that I had never even heard of before now. The sweet little bites of heaven that I am referring to are cinnamon palmiers. I’m not sure why I have never come across them before now – they are so good everyone should know about them! When I first stumbled across this recipe I … [Read more...]
Crunchy Choc Sultana Bites
I was trying to come up with a small snack that I could take to a family lunch recently and decided to make what I now call Crunchy Choc Sultana Bites. This was a recipe that I completely made up as I was going along. I was inspired by the taste of Cadbury Clusters; which are small clusters of raisins and cornflakes that are coated in chocolate. I have found these treats quite nice in the past and started wondering how I could create a similar taste. I knew that it couldn’t be too hard - all … [Read more...]
Soft and Chunky Nutella Cookies
These Nutella cookies are great because they have very few ingredients. Plus they are quick and easy to make and you only have to dirty one bowl! The other day I was looking in my pantry for baking inspiration when I spotted a large jar of Nutella. That instantly got me thinking about how I could use the Nutella to make something yummy. I set about looking online for Nutella cookie recipes and I found that there are lots and lots! But me being me I wanted a cookie that was quick and easy … [Read more...]
Apple, Cinnamon & Sultana Scones
What is it with scones in the winter time? When it is cold and wet outside my craving for scones kicks in! It might be because when I was a kid my mum used to make up a batch of scones for afternoon tea on a wet winter’s day! Winter and scones just seemed to be made for each other. Nothing has changed much for me in that respect. I usually make the most of the cold weather and will often whip up a batch of scones to have for a tasty snack. Lately I have been indulging my love of … [Read more...]
Creamy Vegetable Curry Recipe
I’m not a vegetarian but I just love this recipe for creamy vegetable curry! When you want a tasty curry for dinner and you haven’t got any meat then this curry is great. The mild spice and tangy sour cream provide wonderful flavours and you don’t notice that there is no meat. This is coming from someone who normally has meat of some description in all of my main meals! I found this recipe some time ago on a packet of Continental chicken noodle soup mix and initially thought that it would … [Read more...]