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
All tagged christmas recipe
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.
Festive Spiced Hot Chocolate Recipe. Drink yourself, making for friends or leaving it by the fireplace for Santa, this Festive Spiced Chocolate is the perfect tipple this winter season!
St Helens Farm goat milk (find their website here) mixed with real milk chocolate, helps make the spiced chocolate creamy and delicious.
Christmas Mincemeat Meringue Pie recipe. A combination of tangy and juicy fruit with that hint of port, a slightly sweet, soft meringue and then there’s the crumbly pastry. Easy to make and looks very effective sitting on a festive family table
Conchita’s Chipotle Chocolate Christmas Shortbread , the perfect Christmas recipe for friends , family and for the Christmas table. Shortbread should be crisp and moreish, and this recipe is just that. Chilli and chocolate are flavours made in heaven, and using the slightly smoky Conchita’s Chipotle tips it over the edge.
Christmas isn’t Christmas without a layered Christmas pie. Layers of turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, onion and bacon all add to make this pie a family favourite. With a gin pastry using Ribble Valley gin, you’ll never have a soggy bottom again,
Sprouts with Flaked Almonds, Bacon & Leeks. Don’t be afraid of sprouts any more, cooking them this way means no more waterlogged smelly sprouts
