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
Coconut Layer Cake with Fresh Lemon Curd & Fluffy Piped Coconut Butter Cream Frosting
This is a cake recipe I wanted to share with you, mainly because it tastes wonderful. The combination of the creamy, tart freshly made lemon curd and the slightly sweet coconut is truly a match made in tastebud heaven, and has a texture that makes me think of sunshine.
Juicy, Slow, Oven Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Quick Greek Yoghurt Flatbreads
The easiest slow cooked lamb recipe surrounded by the easiest no yeast wrap . Smeared with an amazing sauce that sinks right into the meat leaving it moist and incredibly tasty.
Pile it all up with crispy shredded white cabbage, spring onions and radishes with a bite, add a layer of caramelised onions and then wrap it all up in a no yeast greek yoghurt flatbread. Yes please!
Frozen Blackberry, No Cook Cheesecake with Chocolate Wafer Biscuit Base
Everyone should have a no cook cheesecake in their recipe book, and if you’ve not got yours as yet, this is the one to add to your. An inexpensive and super easy dish to make and using frozen berries makes it something you can put together quickly and without a lot of notice too!
Blackberry, Caramelised Onion and Goats Cheese Quiche
Not just amazing to eat, it’s so pretty to look at too! Try the combination and you’ll be hooked for good.
Plum Tarte Tatin with Port Caramel - Sweet but not sickly. Pastry but not starch heavy. Fruit but not really one of my five a day and with undertones of port in the caramel sauce, it has a little feel of being a grown-up pudding! What’s not to love?
Leftover curry - This is exactly what it says it the title, a curry using what I had in the fridge, and that included cauliflower leaves and stalks, radishes, some cooked celeriac, a handful of mini tomatoes, an onion and half a packet of wild rocket.
Fresh Berry Pavlova with Mascarpone Chantilly Cream
When a meringues comes out of the oven, I know that spring has sprung and summer is on its way!
This is the easiest meringue to make, full of delicious mascarpone and Chantilly cream and then brimming with the freshest of berries. Not too sweet, perfect for a summer meal outdoors and just enough chewy to make it worth my while.
Crispy Fried Cauliflower with Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce. This is a great recipe make to eat cauliflower. easy to make too! Eaten hot or cold, either is delicious.
If there is any left over from its first eating, breaking it up and adding it to an salad and dribbling the dip over the top is an another amazing way of eating it1
Roasted Belly Pork Lettuce Cups with Harissa Greek Yoghurt, Celeriac Coleslaw and Pickled Mushrooms. A perfect dish to eat on a sunny day in the garden.
Cider Dressed Potato Salad. A potato salad with a tangy dressing thats so easy to make .Its perfect to those summer BBQs or as a side for roast chicken or a big juicy steak
Lime Slice or Key Lime pie by another name - is something thats so easy to make and even easier to eat , so if you’re into a tart and creamy dessert, i bet you’re going to love this.
Using condensed milk and loads of fresh limes means its cost effective too!
Triple Chocolate Easter Layer Cake
The best and so easy to make show stopping cake that will impress anyone who sees it. Topped with as many mini easter eggs as you can fit on it. Make it in round tins or rectangular and layer them together with the delicious and amazingly easy chocolate ganache buttercream .
Wild Garlic Laminated Pasta with Garlic Brown Butter - the easiest pasta to make and the most flavoursome to eat. Its wold garlic season and this means the opportunity to use those beautiful wild garlic leaves in as many ways as possible. Add garlic brown butter to the laminated wild garlic pasta and the nutty taste tips the favour over the edge and elevates it to the next level.
The Best Potatoes – Ever! Dauphinoise Oven baked potatoes are in the top ten list of our household potatoes.
Making a big, dish and I mean big, means that we can have them fresh straight from the oven with a crispy skinned chicken thigh.
These potato stacks take a long time to make, so I can honestly say I don’t make them as often as I’d like to.
A long cook in a hot oven, an overnight stay in the fridge and then fried until crispy and golden, right before serving, so not a fast food.
However, if you fancy a go at these Twice Cooked, Layered, Buttered Fried Potato Stacks, the taste is well worth it.
No egg Biscoff & Chocolate Hazelnut Spread Mouse in Chocolate Cupcake Cases - A perfect valentines dessert to make for the one you love, by that i mean yourself, or for other people . No eggs in both of these mouse so thats a good things, although i cant guarantee that the calories are as free. Very sweet but worth every bite. Sprinkle with toasted hazelnuts for that much needed crunch.
Lamb with Za’atar, Hal el , Harissa and Olives - This is a slow cooked leg of lamb that’s not for the faint hearted. WARNING, don’t make this if you’re a flavour wuss. A few hours in the slow cooker and whats left is this juicy dish packed with some great flavour
Lemon and lime shaker pie. An easy recipe that will make anyone who likes a citrus dessert over a chocolate one, smile from ear to ear. Wafer thin slices of lemon and lime in a sticky sweet syrup surrounded by the best all butter pastry you’ve ever tasted. Hot or cold, this pie is a perfect end to a summer BBQ or a spicy meal, and so easy to make, its a crowd pleaser.
Paprenjaci - Croatian Pepper, Honey & Walnut Cookies
Baked mostly at Christmas in Croatia, Paprenjaci are mostly known as pepper cookies, for obvious reasons, i think the description should be a little more inclusive, hence the above title.
Double Choc’ Chunk Cookies, the best you’ll ever taste. Gooey and full of chunks of milk and white chocolate that are perfect any time.
Such an easy recipe, you wont want any other in your oven. Find the Top Ten Tips to making the perfect chocolate chip cookie too, on this page
