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Chicken Kabseh, or Kabsa, is a new recipe to me but one I wanted to try and make at home as soon as I got back from a recent trip to Jordan. One of the great things about travel is discovering different foods. I love mooching round supermarkets in whichever foreign city I am in to see what local delights they have, and what imports we might recognise. On my
Pressure cooker baked cheesecake. I am a huge fan of baked cheesecake, the crunchy base mixed with the smooth topping is a combination I love. Add to that the tartness of some lemon, and some berries on the side and I am in pudding heaven. Matched only maybe by a warm chocolate brownie and a dollop of ice cream. For a dinner party on Saturday night I decided to do
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
. Half term started this week, and boy do Ellie and I need it. She is shattered, I am exhausted. I had hoped that I would have some lazy mornings but obviously Mr B still has to leave the house at 6.30am and the dog still needs a wee. So they haven’t really happened. I have of course enjoyed not spending nearly two and a half hours a day
. Next weekend sees the Audley End Apple Festival and as part of the celebrations I was challenged to come up with an apple recipe. Which is handy really as we have a couple of apple trees in our garden and generally speaking we don’t do a huge amount with them each year. A real shame and there is no excuse since the least we could do is juice them.
Ferrero Rocher Ice Cream Recipe I decided to make this ice cream for Jonnie’s birthday as they are a sweet he likes (unlike the metre long tube of jelly beans I bought him for his birthday. Oops) and I thought it might be a bit different. Can I really make Ferrero Rocher Ice cream? Yes, yes you can! It is a really simple ice cream to make, needs only
. This is one of our favourite meals in Barbados. In fact it is the first thing we eat when we get there and signifies the start of our holiday. I have been trying to re-create the recipe for a couple of years and think I might have just got there with this version. I can’t though re-create the heat, humidity, or view. But then
.Pimms O Clock waffles Pimms season is officially upon us, the sun is out, and if ever we needed a drink at 6pm it’s right now. It is Pimms O’Clock all week. This recipe comes hot on the heels of my making waffles with gin and tonic for World Gin Day Pimms O’Clock Waffles Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 10 mins Total time 20 mins
This is the recipe you didn’t know you need. It’s the only apple pie ice cream recipe you will ever need, even when you don’t know you need an apple pie ice cream recipe My inlaws arrived on Sunday for ten days and that meant one thing on Saturday: menu planning. I need to be ahead of the game this week as there is SO much happening. GCSEs, an
. 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
Chocolate Waffle Cake is a showstopper of a cake This morning the ever gorgeous Kelly from DomesticGoddesque tagged me on Facebook to alert me to a chocolate waffle cake that another blogger had made. This is the video of that creation, it has a stack of Nutella in it and looks heavenly. As you know I love trying out things on our Smart Waffle and there is little I
.Hot Cross Buns Recipe You know this thing where I can’t really cook? Well I can’t. Not really. I don’t really follow recipes properly and I often change things which means my kids do that arched eyebrow thing when they try something for the first time. This week that has happened with the above hot cross buns. They look like normal hot cross buns don’t they? Well they