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This curried chicken salad with a mango yogurt dressing is the perfect weekend lunch, or lazy midweek supper. Relatively cheap and all cooked in one dish, my favourite kind of meal! I am not normally a fan of fruit with savoury dishes (don’t get me started on pineapple on pizzas for instance) so tend to avoid things like this but actually this works and isn’t too over powering at all.
Week 13 of lockdown and here is how it looked. This is the week that we were told we could form a support bubble with another household and next week the shops re-open and secondary school children are heading back to school. No news on restaurants yet though, the hospitality industry is going to be decimated by this, as is the holiday industry. There is talk that some hotels
World Gin Day happens on the second Saturday in June every year, which means this year it is June 13th, today! I have written about gin ALOT over the years so thought I would do a round up post for you to have a read through in case any of the previous posts had escaped your attention. The funny thing is that I really didn’t like gin until about five
This weekend I will be doing a yoga retreat at home, join me? This time two years ago I was in the south of France attending a four day yoga retreat. Not that I had ever done yoga before but the timing was right and I found myself flying on my own for the first time in decades to spend almost a week with total strangers, all in the
The Social Isolation Diaries — Week 12 and It is hard to believe that we are still living with a deadly virus in our midst anymore. If you look out the window, certainly where we are, traffic is pretty much back to normal, children are now beginning to walk back to school, and the queues for supermarkets don’t feel as long. At the beginning of the week we were being
Did you know you could make a slow cooker strawberry cheesecake? People often associate slow cookers with stews, or casseroles, or in fact anything savoury. And most definitely wintery. It is less often associated with sweet things. Like cheesecake. Cheesecake? In a slow cooker? I know.. I know… you think I have finally lost the plot. But trust me, this works, and it says “summer” like nothing else. And I
My apple punch recipe is a really simple non alcoholic drink, perfect a family get together (when we can have them again). I was asked a little while ago if I would like to work with Jazz Apples, providing them with a recipe that would be featured in their latest e-book. I jumped at the chance! Ten fellow bloggers were asked to submit their favourite recipes featuring Jazz Apples
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
I think we probably all want to say a big thank you to the NHS, don’t we? One of the things I really want to take away from the Coronavirus, and remember in years to come is the NHS finally getting the recognition it rightly deserves. Without wishing to get political, for years it has been under-funded, in some cases abused, and yet always there for us when we need
When your first grandchild is born during a pandemic you realise being a grandparent is not going to be how you imagined it would be. I am trying to keep a sense of perspective about the whole thing. Telling myself that at least Lily Elena, who arrived on May 20th, is safe at home with her mummy (my eldest daughter) and daddy. That they are all safe as they
The Social Isolation Diaries — Week 11 and, Well that’s it then, social isolation is over. Officially, not completely because we are still being urged to remain two metres apart but from next next week we will be allowed to meet up in groups of “up to six” in public spaces. Which has, of course, been translated into “you can now have a barbecue with all your friends and family
How to grow a gin garden Quite why I decided I wanted to plant a gin garden four years ago, I don’t know. Hell a decade ago I didn’t even like gin. But then I discovered that it was tonic water I didn’t like and that I actually did like gin. A lot. Though in my defence I do drink it with waaaayyyyyy more lemonade than any recipe would recommend
