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
There are so many ways to enjoy Carrot and Orange butter and it’s so easy to make, it’ll soon be taking a spot in your fridge. Try it with chicken, fish, slathered on bread or mixed into morning oats.
Call it what you like, flavoured butter or compound butter, it's a great recipe and so easy to make.
ender Stem Broccoli & Cheese (Blackstick Blue) Tart (Quiche) With Parmesan Pastry & Hot Honey, a dish that is full of flavour and full of my new favourite cheese, Blackstick Blue. Tangy and creamy it's perfect to use in cooking or eaten alone. This tart, or quiche (which do you use?) an easy tart to make for those time you want flavour and show off a bit. Parmesan pastry is another flavour boost.
Salmon, Leek & Rocket Tart with Parmesan Pastry - or quiche. A delicious and ight tart or quiche, what ever you want to call it. The pastry is filled with parmesan and has layers making it perfect for a light lunch or as i like it, with paprika crispy potatoes. Its easy and flavoursome and worth adding it to you cook book. Drizzle it with hot honey and it tips it over the top.
This Raspberry & Orange Drizzle Cake is super moist, just the way i like it, and has tons of fresh raspberries scattered throughout, also the way i like it. Baked in a loaf tin, it's easy to make and packed with flavour.
Sometimes i like to add even more flavour than in the recipe, adding herbs to my parsley rough puff pastry is an easy way of adding more. This is an easy pastry to make, just follow a few rules and it’ll be a go to recipe.
It's all over social media and it will soon be on the supermarket shelves and once you've tasted it, you'll know why. Its so versatile to add the sweet chilli kick thats so often needed. Drizzle over my Goat Cheese, Date & Walnut Tart with Parsley Rough Puff Pastry.
Goat Cheese, Date & Walnut Tart with Hot Honey & Parsley Rough Puff Pastry is the perfect vegetarian dish. Home made parsley rough puff makes the perfect base for for layers of flavoursome goat cheese and sticky date and onion topping and if thats not enough, the whole thing is drizzled with spicy hot honey.
Hot Cross Bun recipe - They many not be the quickest things to make, but it’s certainly worth giving them a try. Enriched dough takes time but for easter its sometimes worth the time. Soft, filled with spices and fruit, and thick with butter , they are delicious and taste so much fresher than shop bought.
One of the easiest dishes I make, and because of that and the fact it goes so well with so many things, I make it as often as I can get away with.
One Pot Coconut Dhal recipe - I love to eat it with my favourite protein, warm chicken, with a plate of Greek yoghurt flat bread next to it to mop up every drop.
Because its vegetarian, my vegetarian friends love it just as much, but they forgo the chicken and have chunks of roasted aubergine instead.
These triple ginger biscuits are so full of flavour they leave that warm spice on my tongue. Using dried ground ginger and moist stem ginger, in my opinion they are the ultimate ginger biscuits. Dipped in dark chocolate with a sliver of that stem ginger resting on top, just adds more to these biscuits.
Black Pudding & Pork Meatball Hotpot in Paprika Tomato Sauce - An amazing sauce with texture and oomph. Light moist meatballs with bite size bits of black pudding and pork, and that topping of thinly sliced potatoes that inevitably sucks up lots of flavour from the sauce. and makes it a hotpot, well to my taste buds.
Orange & Nectarine Layer Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is a lovely cake to make for mothers day and it’s so easy i wouldn’t keep it just for that day. Layers of moist orange cake held together with a white chocolate and cream cheese frosting (buttercream) with chunks of just cut nectarines. A perfect mothers day gift to say thank you.
Heavenly Potato Hash is a perfect for a mid-week meal, top it with a soft fried egg and it becomes the perfect comfort food dish. Soft potatoes with cabbage and bacon and whats left is a dish to make again and again.
Root vegetable soup with borlotti beans ticks so many boxes. Its a great way to eat the seasons and it's so full of winter vegetable goodness thats it's a sin not to eat more than one bowl. Adding borlotti beans and peas pushes this soup into a bowl of winter love.
Mini Pear and Chutney Bites, canapes using only three ingredients that are quick to put together when people pop around. Use any spiced and fruity chutney you have, and get a great flavour thats easy to do
Savoury Mince with Cheese & Parsley Scones or savoury cobbler, whatever its called , its a perfect comfort food and cooked in one pot, its a great dish to make. the scones cooked straight in top are filled with herbs and cheese, and are light and fluffy. its also a perfect eat the next day dish too, so no food waste.
Pimp up Christmas with these mini Maple Syrup Sausages in Bacon, another way to make your guests think you've spent hours slaving in the kitchen, Yet they are so easy to make ,and once out of the oven, they won't last very long before they're eaten.
Christmas brownies using mincemeat - Mincemeat and chocolate may not be the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of flavour combinations, but let me assure you, even for haters of mincemeat, mixing it into this brownie, is a way of converting all you sceptics out there.
The best apple pie recipe because it has best flaky pastry and its a mound of apples in the centre which, for me, aren't over flavoured. I like to taste apples in my apple pie. its easy to make and once you've added the pastry to your family recipe book, it's one i think you'll go back to again and again.
Home Made Eclairs with Pistachio Pastry Crème & Peanut Brittle aren't as difficult to make as first thought. Just follow my step by step instructions and they will be in your plate in no time at all. Decorated with dark chocolate with a layer of chantilly cream and then shards of peanut brittle and chopped pistachios. each is filled with a smooth pistachio creme patisserie, a mouthful of heaven.
