Baker & Foodie Content Creator
My name is Lee, welcome to my pages. I hope we can have fun together?
When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing guest blogs, writing my own blog, or even trying to learn how to paint, I’m usually spending time with the amazing Mr G (my husband) or with my lovely daughter or my lovely son (very proud mum).
What is this all about? Great question. This site is about real cooking and baking, real recipes and real mistakes.
No filters here, (although i’d love to find a filter that can take ten years worth of laugh lines away. Just me, whats happening, and whatever cameras or phone i have to hand .
There are many things that get under my bonnet and wiggle around, one of those is food waste. If i buy ingredients specifically for a recipe, and i only need a small amount of the ingredients, i want to be able to use the rest up and not have to throw them away. My mum used to say , “Waste not Want not” is that still a saying ?
For me, waste is not just about using up all the ingredients. What about leftover food? If i’m able , i hope to give ideas as to how to use up any leftovers too.
Be Brave
Cooking isn’t hard , neither is baking, its all about being brave and being ok with making mistakes
Book for Foodie Book Club December reading choice along with a recipe to make at home by chef Jason MCrellis. A book review for Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood by Rebecca Wells and a bio of of our highlighted chef Jason McCrellis brings the end to the year.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett with Recipe by Chef Sophie Hyam is what Foodie Book Club are reading this November. Find the review about the book, words about the author and a recipe from Chef Sopjhie Hyam and lots about her too. Watch Sophie cook her dish on our YouTube channel.
Watch Chef Alex Webb cook on Foodie Book Club YouTube channel and hear what he has to say about how he entered MasterChef the professionals. Find his recipe here too.
The September choice of book for Foodie Book Club is Mr Einsteins Secretary by Matthew Reilly. Read the review.
Foodie Book Club choice for September reading is Horse by Geraldine Brooks and we have a recipe of Scallops with Wild Garlic Risotto & Brown Butter by Chef Paul Cunningham. Watch Chef Paul Cunningham being interviewed and cooking live on Foodie book Club YouTube Channel -Foodie Book Club YouTube channel.
Foodie Book Club August read is onoodie Book Club August Read is The Dictionary of lost words by Pip Williams with an amazing Recipe by Chef Jomon Kuriakose. You can watch the amazing duck curry being cooked on our YouTube channel. Review and synopsis for the book and full recipe here - read on.
With a recipe from the amazing Kenny Atkinson and a book by Nguyen Phan Quê Mai, July is a great month to cook and read. Chicken Risotto is the thing to be cooking this month and Foodie Book Club choice of book is The Mountains Sing.
Quinoa Risotto, Wild Mushrooms and Chicken Thigh recipe by Chef Tony Rodd, Bio of author Heather Morris and book review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz for a June read for Foodie Book Club CIC. Watch Tony Rudd do a live demonstration, cooking his risotto and chatting about, well, about everything, including his experiences on MasterChef.
The Foodie Book Club choice for our May read is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amos Towles with a recipe from Chef Gemma Austin. Find the book review and recipe for Gemmas Fish Chowder here, and have a peak to see the egg rating the book gets from me.
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey with Recipe by Lauren Shimmin. An April book and a recipe for Foodie Book Club.
A review about Miss Bensons Beetle written by rachel Joyce.
February 2025 book to read is The Last dance by Mark Billingham and a recipe from the amazingly talented Gaston Savina, who appeared on MasterChef the professionals. Reviews and recipes for Foodie Book Club, lots about Mark Billingham and lots about Chef savina and how he appeared on MasterChef.
On our list of books to read in 2025 is Room by Emma Donoghue. Pick the best books over the last few years and this book would certainly be on it, add a great recipe and January is all set to be a good month.
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is the December 2024 book Foodie Book Club members are reading tis month.. The recipe, Turkish Style Spiced Lentils with Pumpkin, Chicken, and Aleppo Pepper, is gifted to go along with our reading, is by Ben Tish, a master of Mediterranean cuisine.
November 2024 Foodie Book Club chosen book is Bridgerton: The Duke & I by Julia Quinn with a Recipe by Ciara Turley, the Tummy Fairy.
The October read for Foodie Book Club is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus with a Moms Recipe by Elle James (Shameless Elle).
Read the book, cook the food and read all about Elle James and how she became Shameless Elle.
Memoirs of a Geisha is the book Foodie Book Club members are reading in September, and they're cooking Samantha Smiths recipe for gluten free Mini Apple Pies.
Find the full recipe for these delicious mini bites of apple surrounded by fabulous gluten free pastry right here. You can also find out more about Samantha and why she's an advocate for type one diabetics everywhere.
Read about the only book Arthur Golden every wrote and his book, Memoirs of a Geisha.
August reading is Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue with Recipe by Orla Drumgoole who is Irish Mammy Cooks
Foodie Book Club August read, review and recipe is all here. All you need to settle down with your feet up, cup of tea in hand, piece of delicious cake by Orla Drumgoole and a good book.
July read for Foodie Book Club CIC is Bournville by Jonathan Coe and recipe by the generous Sam Balshaw who is Hungry Woman Cooks.
Find it all here. Book review , author bio along with recipe for Sams crispy skin chicken and how Sam became Hungry Woman Cooks.
June read for Foodie Book Cub is Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson - Charimaine Wilkerson, known as a Caribbean-American writer who’s now based in Italy.
Find the book review , bio and recipe by John Godwin for Tropical Buns
Spending time living in Jamaica, Charmaine now does a lot of her writing in Italy where she has lived, along with her family, on and off for 20 years.
Death and Croissants by Ian Moore & Recipe by Ian Moore - May 2024 read for Foodie Book Club. A comic who dunnit by a comedian who writes ‘funny’ with ease .
Find the review and bio for Ian and Death & Croissants (first in the comic crime series, set in rural France) along with his recipe for Boiled Ham with Fizz, a sticky ham straight from Ian Moores kitchen.
