Smoked Salmon Pasta with Spinach & Canellini Beans
This one-pot salmon pasta is one of our new favourite mid-week meals. It’s super easy to throw together, and using smoked salmon means you don’t need to worry about pre-cooking any raw fish. It does have spinach in it, with
Home-made Crab Apple Jelly
We're been foraging for apples at our local community orchard again this year, and this time as well as the other apples we also brought home a bag full of crab apples to make crab apple jelly out of. It's
Pflaumenkuchen – German Plum Crumble Cake
Hands up if you love plums! Seriously one of the best things about early Autumn. Even better baked in to 'Pflaumenkuchen' - delicious German plumb crumble cake. Read on for how to bake your own
Eis Kaffee & Eis Schokolade – German Ice Cream Drinks
We have another German summer treat to share with you today. You'll find Eis Kaffee (Ice Cream Coffee) and/or Eis Schokolade (Ice Cream Chocolate Milk) in many cafes in Germany throughout the warmer months. They're so simple, they don't really
‘Kräuterlimonade’ – German Herbal Lemonade
One of our favourite refreshing summer drinks is 'Kräuterlimonade', which translates as 'herbal lemonade'. We used to drink it all the time in Germany. In the absence of being able to buy it here in Scotland, we tried making our
Dreikönigskuchen – Three Kings’ Cake (GF)
Happy Epiphany! Or 'Three Kings Day' as we call it in Germany (though the Bible doesn't actually mention there were three of them, just that they brought three gifts!) It's a feast day which in Western Christianity commemorates the visit
Halloween Eyeball Mocktails
Since guising (as we call trick-or-treating here in Scotland) is off the cards this year, I've promised the kids a spooky Halloween dinner instead, and we're going to make some Halloween mocktails. These eyeball mocktails are not as creepy as
Marshmallow Ghost Cookies
I've got a really easy Halloween cookie recipe to share with you today. In fact, it's so easy, does it even deserve to be called a recipe? Consider it more of a Halloween cookie inspiration - they just require a
Easy Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie
The first pumpkins have started appearing in the shops, which means an excuse to bake pumpkin pie! This is actually a recipe I have shared before on my previous blog, but it's so good I thought it needed sharing again.
Foraged Apple & Bramble Crumble
For the past couple of years, we've visited a 'pick your own' farm in Autumn to go apple picking. This year, with everything needing booked in advance and a long bus ride with masks not sounding very appealing, a family
Bratkartoffeln mit Spiegelei
Okay, so ‘Brakartoffeln mit Spiegelei’ is basically just fried potatoes with fried eggs, but it sounds so much better in German. It’s a fairly popular dish in Germany, and can either be made fresh or as ‘Restessen’ (leftovers) to use
Frozen Fruit Pops
We’ve had some quite mixed weather in Edinburgh over the last couple of weeks, including a few scorchers (well, be Scottish standards) so we made some tasty frozen fruit pops to cool everyone down. This recipe is suitable for: gluten free,