Exam Season

For quite some time now, I've been looking for a way to spice up our meal planning routine. Tired of asking the same old question, "What do you want for dinner?" day after day, I decided to get creative. Enter the meal board – a simple yet effective solution to our dinnertime dilemma. Its a...

Mince Pies

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The baking has begun... Yesterday I made the first batch of mince pies. I have been making homemade mince pies for some time (16 years) now and each year I tweak it to make it to our taste. It all started with not liking the amount of...

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Many years ago I saw this recipe on 'This Morning' (ITV {British} daytime TV show) for a 4th of July programme. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo impressed that the cookies were made without eggs as I always thought they contained eggs !!!!!!! So that was one recipe I was going to try 🙂 Then a couple of...

Vegan Spaghetti Balls

The way I came to this recipe, was to try something new/different than the normal spaghetti. My father loves Spaghetti and I wanted to make it whilst they were staying with us, one spring a few years ago. Growing up we used to have spaghetti with a basic potato curry!! That was normal for us...

Wabi ~ Sabi

Wabi ~ Sabi ( Japanese) :- A way of Living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of Life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.... This is a saying which best describes what we have been up to and our absence from the blogging world. Life was such that we...

Valentine’s / Mother’s Day Meal

Sorry for the short break, a few things have changed in our routine hence the delay in posting the next recipe/post. So for Valentine's / Mother's day I was treated to a candle lit lovely 3 course meal 🙂 by the wonderful men in my life. They put alot of effort into the meal and...

We are back !!!!!!!!!!!!! Chocolate Fudge Cake

After a very long time off from the blog we are BACK ! Well what can I say, many of you have asked WHY ??  the absence, wondering if I have stopped cooking ???? Never, it has just been a tricky few years and my editor (husband) was very busy, so there have not been...

Golden Triangles

I came up with this recipe as I really wanted to incorporate some dried fruit with a normal / traditional barfi. I also wanted to try and make a healthy sweet, using natural sugars from the fruit and very little ghee. Traditionally Indian sweets are full of calories because of the amount of sugar and...