Fun recipes and food crafts to try with your kids, including original seasonal ideas and decorating techniques – we definitely put the fun into cooking!
A liqueur is sweetened alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, cream, herbs, spices, flowers or nuts. Homemade liqueurs make lovely presents and are super simple to make. Over…
Hunter sausage rolls is a great recipe for introducing kids to cooking with wild game meats. Super easy to make, game is great value for money and has high nutritional…
This festive christmas liqueur is an adaptation of our Christmas Extract recipe. Whereas the extract is designed to be really concentrated in flavour for use in other recipes, this liqueur…
The inspiration for this Christmas Extract recipe was a home made Vanilla Extract recipe that I saw on Pinterest. When I realised how easy that was to make at home…
Every year we forage for sloes to make sloe gin. Sloes are the fruit of the Blackthorn shrub (Prunus Spinosa). It is native to Europe, Western Asia and parts of…
Although a Pavlova is fabulous at any time of the year, it is a particular favourite of ours paired with summer berries. They are not difficult to make, providing you…
Everyone we know loves Jelly. From birthday parties to sherry trifles, it makes a fabulous dessert. Most of us have made the shop bought version, but have you ever thought…
Meadowsweet is just starting to flower in our British hedgerows. It is a wonderful herb, with a beautiful fragrance, which, in my opinion, easily rivals that of the Elderflower.
This recipe for nettle fruit leather is one of my own concoctions. The idea came to me while pondering on what I could do with the nettle residue you are…
Google the health benefits of stinging nettles, and you will find the most incredible list of diseases and complaints that this plant has been attributed to helping with- everything from…
Regular readers will know that we are huge Pinterest fans. Every visit, I find something new and different to inspire us; whether it be a craft project, recipe, an amazing…
All my extended family love seville orange marmalade, so each year I make a batch to give away as Christmas Pressies.