How to Make Apple Sauce and Great Ways to Enjoy It
Got lots of cooking apples? Make apple sauce - recipe and 16 ideas for using it here.
How to Organise your Fridge ~ Essential Tips
Organise your fridge with these useful tips and guidelines and get the most of your food and leftovers - and your storage space.
Living Lettuce ~ Have your Lettuce and Eat it Too!
Have you ever bought a living lettuce from the supermarket – and then after a few salad days it looks like this? Well if you stick it outside in the sun (if such a thing should occur) and water it…
Shakespeare got it wrong about cold porridge!
It seems to me that Shakespeare may have been barking up the wrong tree here as cold porridge, used properly, can be a really good thing! I know, I expect we all do, that oats are good for us but…
8 and a Bit ways to Cope with a “Leftover” Bottle of Port
A friend gave us a bottle of Port because she said didn't drink it. What a shame, how sad, yippee! We do drink it but I feel this is an ideal opportunity to write about other uses for “unwanted” port.
Duck recipes ~ how to love a duck!
How to use and enjoy every single part of a duck including how to confit duck legs.
Welsh Rarebit or Rabbit? How to do it properly whatever it’s called!
Welsh Rarebit or Welsh Rabbit! This is not just cheese on toast and here are two and a half methods for making it whatever you call it!
It’s a Sloe Time of Year … make Slow Gin
Sloe gin has a lovely rich sweet flavour, undisturbed by the original juniper taste of the gin, here's how to make it.
Krumplinudli ~ and what fun being Hungarian must be!
Krumplinudli are mashed potato dumplings, traditionally sausage shaped, poached and coated in crunchy buttery breadcrumbs. My sister and I used to put them on the menu because they sounded funny and tasted good too!
What to do with Leftover Soup!
The most fabulously impressive thing I ever did with leftover soup was make fritters! Recipe here plus more good ideas for leftover soup here ...
