Vegetable Lasagne Kids will Love
So here's a funny story: my kids are generally quite good about eating vegetables, but they prefer them raw not cooked, with a few exceptions. They claim not to like cooke carrots, and categorically won't touch mushrooms. But when I
Banana Pancakes & Berry Platter
It doesn't matter when I pick my boys up from nursery/ school - whether they've just eaten or not, they are always, ALWAYS hungry and begging for snacks. Sometimes I take the easy option, but sometimes if we have time
‘Kartoffelpuffer’ with Apple Sauce (GF)
One of my favourite German dishes, is "Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus". The "Kartoffelpuffer" are a kind of potato pancake, made from grated potatoes, and "Apfelmus" is basically just an apple sauce, which you traditionally serve with them. When I was younger,
Apple & Raisin Cookies (GF)
Summer holidays mean children begging for snacks all hours of the day. We try to keep it healthy with things like fruit, carrot stick with hummus, oatcakes with peanut butter etc but every now and then they'll want a cookie
Review: Messy Me Aprons + Ketchup Recipe
This post contains gifted items. All views are our own. As you may have gathered from all the recipes here on the blog, we love cooking and baking in our house and the boys love getting stuck in too. Baking cookies
‘Popeye’ Spinach Waffles
My kids are pretty good when it comes to eating vegetables. Most vegetables they like outright, some though they only like in certain ways e.g. only raw or only as soup (I think it's a texture thing). Spinach is one
Blueberry & Lime Chia Jam
We've been trying to cut down on our consumption of refined sugar lately, and while we're doing okay with snacks and baking (lots of excuses to try new sugar free cookie & cake recipes!), one thing we've struggled with is
Lunchbox Muffins
We've gotten in to a really bad habit recently of packing ready made snacks in to my son's school bag in the mornings - oat bars, yogurt raisins, fruit leather, that kind of thing. It was meant to be a
Vanilla & Coconut Granola
Do you know what tastes better than a nice bowl of crunchy granola for breakfast? A nice bowl of home made crunchy granola! We love granola in our house, but many of the store bought brands are loaded with sugar
Homemade Rhubarb Compote
There's been loads of rhubarb popping up in our local fruit & veg shops. Last year we totally missed rhubarb season, so this year we jumped at the first sign of rhubarb and I made a big batch of yummy
‘Falscher Hase’ German Meat Loaf
If you're looking for a way to use up those last leftover hard boiled Easter eggs, I have just the recipe for you! "Falscher Hase" - a typical German recipe which translates as "false hare" - is a special kind
Chocolate Easter Nests
Easter is getting closer, so today I have another sweet (literally) and easy little idea for you. I'm going to share how we made chocolate Easter nests for our German playgroup's Easter meet-up last weekend. Some folk make their Easter nets