Cooking is a skill that gets better with time and practice. You could even create the most spectacular dish from the simplest of groceries. But until you get there, we have a few tips that you can use to become a more efficient cook.
The kitchen can, at times, be a rather daunting destination for us men. The good news is that it’s never been a better time to get familiar with the kitchen, and, all the glorious gadgets it can include. Cooking food has never been easier thanks to cookbooks, chefs on TV and recipe apps. Tesco offer a wide range of kitchen appliances that can mush, mix, marinate and caffeinate everything from pieces of meat to cups of coffee.
Mia had her 5th birthday party today (where has the time gone?), and to celebrate Gosia decided to try her hand at cake decorating…
With all the Christmas festivities coming up it’s easy to forget that this time of year is great for British Game meat. All the way…
I realise that what I’m about to type will make a lot of you think I’m disgusting. You’ll wonder how anybody can admit to such a thing, and probably despise me for it. But I have to get it out of my system, so here goes: I like sprouts.
What I don’t love though, is the after effect. Just why do sprouts make you fart?
After a couple of years with the existing blog design, I decided it was time for something new and fresh. Instead of hours of relentless…
The smell and flavour of wild garlic is sweeter and less harsh than that of farmed garlic. The bulbs are much smaller but the leaves more tender, therefore it is the leaves that are generally picked.
This year we thought it’d be fun to make our own chocolate eggs instead of (read: as well as) buying them. Mia (now almost 3) loved it; here’s the photographs to prove it!
It’s March right now and the possibilities for foraging are still limited, so we thought we’d try something different this weekend and pick fresh Violet flowers.