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
Macarons with Lemon Buttercream . Easy and tasty macrons are not difficult to make with this recipe. Tips, tricks and hacks to out them right if they go wrong. What can go wrong when making macrons? Tips to put them right. Crispy outer shell with a gooey middle
Confit Aubergine recipe. I love it on almost anything, but most of all i love it sitting on top of some softly squashed avocado, with some oven roasted tomatoes all resting on top of a heavily buttered slice of sourdough toast.
Croatian Potato Salad Recipe. Yes, it’s easy and yes it has very few ingredients, but that doesn’t mean that anything is taken away from this Croatian take on a Russian salad.
Baked Blackberry Cheesecake with Chocolate Digestive Biscuit Base Recipe. This recipe is delicious and so easy to make. Using blackberries in this cheesecake gives it a fresh bite of juice with each smooth creamy mouthful .
Red Cabbage, Beetroot & Spring Onion Salad. It couldn’t be quicker to make, fresher to eat and then there’s the colour!
Caramel & Chocolate Ganache Tart with Sweet Pastry Chocolate and caramel, yes please, if you’re a chocolate and caramel lover that is!
The pastry of this tart is a pastry I use in almost every dessert tart I make.
It’s so easy to make and tastes so good I have been known to eat a bit, or two, before its cooked. -
One Pot Creamed Corn with Red Pepper & Paprika, the perfect side dish for any get together. Easy to make and delicious to eat, a creamy mix of sweet corn bite and smooth sauce.
A cookie which isn’t sweet enough to take the enamel off my teeth is one of those little wins I like to chalk up!
These cookies appeal to so many people because they have everything.
Easily adapted into a vegan cookie they are already vegetarian.
Vegetarian Summer Vegetable & Harissa Pesto Rose Tart
A pretty tart to look at and a flavoursome tart to eat. Vegetarian summer vegetable tart with a subtle smokey flavour from the harissa pesto and fresh vegetables make this a perfect tart to make for a summer get together.
Chocolate Filled Peanut Butter Cookies with Salted Chocolate, Peanut Butter Drizzle recipe, an easy recipe that will have to go in your best of cookie list!
Caramel Coconut Filled Double Chocolate Cookie with Chocolate Glaze. Looking for something easy to bake but super indulgent,? This is the thing you should be baking today!
I love these filled cookies, alone they are incredible but with the coconut caramel filling and the shiny chocolate glaze, they are completely moriesh and not for the faint hearted!
Savoury Cheesecake with Brie & Cranberry Wensleydale, Garlic & Herb Goats Cheese & Caramelised Fig Molasses Onions Topping.
A cheese lovers dream, make this savoury cheesecake ahead of time, up to a couple of days in fact!
I know a savoury cheesecake may sound a little confusing but once you’ve had your first mouthful, you’ll be convinced.
Beetroot Hummus. An amazing colour to set in the middle of any table. The deep colour is just the icing on the cake, the flavour is great too.
Hazelnut, Oat & Almond Praline Clusters, easy to make, perfect for gifts, chopped or into smaller pieces and scattered over ice cream,
Coronation Chicken Pie with Black Onion & Almond Topping. The filling is a combination of the moist chicken and the tangy slightly curry flavour of the mango and raisins. I think it definitely looks like a pie for a celebration and know it certainly tastes good enough for one!
Ajar is a mixture between a sauce, a condiment and a dip, and is used in Croatia for all of these things.
It’s one of the most versatile side dishes I ever make and I use it on as many things as I can.
Tomato & Gruyere Cheese Galette with Black Onion Seeds is another dish I bring out a lot when I have a tons of people coming over, its especially fabulous when tomatoes are in season and there’s a lush of amazing colours on the shelves.
A mix of large and small tomatoes, all placed cut side up makes this inexpensive and easy dish look like I’ve slaved over it for hours and it has cost way more than it actually has!
Birthday Biscuits with Lemon Curd Icing. The buttery biscuit topped with the creamy tart royal icing and the beautiful pale sprinkles, are perfect to make for any birthday-no matter what age.
Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Swirls love shortbread, although I don’t make it too often!
I think the reason is, I can’t just eat one, especially if they’ve had a chocolate bath!
As shortbread should be, these are light and melt so easily in my mouth, which doesn’t help with any attempt on my part to eat only one.
No Egg Pomegranate Ice Cream.
Make this ice cream vegetarian by using plant based double cream.
It’s such an incredible recipe, so fresh, so creamy that it can very well be mistaken for a more complicated ice cream that has a custard base, but it’s not!
There are only four ingredients in this ice cream and it doesn’t need any more, honest, not another thing could make it any better.
