Tuna & Tomato Pasta Bake
Last week, my 5 year old expressed an interest in helping to cook dinner, so I asked him what he would like to cook and he said tuna pasta. So we made this yummy tuna pasta bake together! Ingredients 400g dried
Gluten Free Coconut & Almond Cake
Last weekend, Oskar decided he wanted to bake a cake. Of course, he announced this *after* we'd already done our weekly shop, so we raided our cupboards to see what ingredients we had available, and ended up with a coconut
Apricot Glazed Lamb with Garlic & Rosemary
It's not been the Easter we had all imagined, but my husband did strike gold when he spotted a leg of lamb at our local supermarket when he was doing our essential weekly shop last week. So we ended up
The Best Chocolate Cookies in the World
Okay, so it may be a little bold to profess these are the best chocolate cookies in the world, but that's what my 9 year old said when he tasted them and then proceeded to hug me and thank me
Store Cupboard Recipe: Chilli Non Carne
Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing okay. We're on day two of schools being closed in Scotland, and last night the government announced even further restrictions on movements. With everyone trying not to go out unnecessarily, and changing
Apple & Cinnamon Pancakes (GF)
Listen up folks, Pancake Day is not far off! I wasn't going to make anything new this year, but last weekend Mr Fox was feeling poorly so I said I'd make pancakes to cheer him up. He loves his apples
Haggis Three Ways
Burns Night is coming up this weekend, the day that Scotland celebrates its national bard. Many folk gather with the family and friends for a traditional Burns Night Supper - haggis, neeps & tatties, accompanied by various speeches and poetry
Two Easy Winter Jam Recipes
Jam making is something usually associated with the warmer months of the year (such as our fruit & herb jams), but it's just as easy to make jam even in the midst of winter, and it just tastes better than
Flourless Chocolate Santa Brownies
My kids are still off school until Thursday, and we felt like a spot of baking this week. Nigella’s flourless chocolate brownies always go down a treat in our house, and we had most of the baking essentials sitting in
Peppermint Creams
One of those quintessentially British things that for me belong to Christmas, are peppermint creams. Every recipe I found online included raw eggs, but I wanted the boys to be able to eat them too without risk, so I tried
Gluten Free Christmas Stollen
One of the things I really miss about German Christmas, since going gluten free, is Stollen. Making it yourself was always such a challenge: the tough yeast dough needs the better part of a day kneading and rising and kneading
Roasted Root Vegetable Soup
So today, I have a very special 'guest' post for you. Oskar, my eldest, is doing something called the Junior Duke Award at school, for which he has to complete various tasks. One task was to cook a soup for