Chicken, ciabatta and green bean tray bake

Lazy chicken, ciabatta and green bean tray bake is a really simple and quick supper.  Since lockdown our days have been much more lazy, more laid back and less clock watching.  Whilst I still get up at the same time every day, and go to bed at the same time, the hours in between just merge and before I know it it’s 5pm and keen to get in front of

Read More

Potato topped sausage and Onion pie recipe

Potato topped sausage and Onion pie recipe As soon as the lights are on all day my thoughts turn to comfort food.  In the absence of being able to hug a hot water all day I turn instead to warming comforting foods.  Those hot dinners that say “a hug from within”.   I had actually forgotten about this recipe until I was reminded of it at the weekend during a

Read More

Pressure Cooker Beer Can Chicken

Pressure cooker beer can chicken I hear you say.  Has she gone mad?  Nope I haven’t gone mad, this really does work. If you follow me on social media it won’t have escaped your attention that for the last few weeks there has been a new weapon in my kitchen arsenal: a pressure cooker.   Known as the Fast Slow Pro it is made by Sage Appliances and retails at

Read More

Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken

. I have been struggling to find meals that all of us will enjoy recently, and that can withstand E eating at 6pm, Mr B and I at 8pm and J at 8.30pm.   It is either that or doing three dinners and my sanity can’t cope with that idea.   So our Sage Appliances slow cooker has been an absolute god send as it has a keep warm function

Read More

My toad in the hole can #RaiseSomeDough

. It won’t have escaped your attention that I am a bit involved with Comic Relief this year. And also a lover of food. In fact if you don’t know those two facts about me you are clearly new. And won’t know that it is Mummy Barrow law that newbies send me biscuits. (Ed’s note: Get on with it Barrow). Oh yes. Right. So given that I am a huge

Read More