Foraged Nettle Pesto
Foraging for food, and then cooking with your foraged bounty, is one of the great joys of life. A real back to nature experience. Living in the city, we are a bit limited but there are still options around us,
Mini Eggs Easter Bark
Today I've got a super simple Easter treat for you, that you can make with just two or three ingredients: chocolate, and mini eggs. Sure, you could just eat them separately, but it just makes it feel that little bit
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,
Easy Sweetcorn Nachos with Guacamole
For this week's summer camp cooking session we have another savoury dish that's popular in our house. And since there's no sharp knives or hot pans involved, until it goes in the oven at the end, it's a great recipe
Kiwi & Banana Smoothie
For this week's summer camp cooking session we're going to be making smoothies. It was actually my 5 yr old who wanted to make these, and he chose the ingredients to go in it. We first made these last summer,
“Kaiserschmarren” – Austrian Shredded Pancakes
For this week's summer camp cooking session, I have a yummy recipe that is popular in Austria and Southern Germany. Kaiserschmarren are sweet, fluffy shredded pancakes that take their name from Kaiser Franz Joseph I who allegedly loved this dish. As