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
Oat and Goats Cheese Biscuit Recipe
A biscuit thats perfect to eat alone or use them to hold piles of cheese and cut meats!
Not a difficult biscuit to make and not a biscuit thats designed to stay in the cupboard for weeks, once made, they’re best eaten within a few days.
It’s the addition of goats cheese that makes these biscuits so delicious and i use St Helens Farm mature goats cheese to give them their umami flavour , it works really well too!
Orange & Lemon Custard Tart Recipe.
With a bowl of oranges, a couple of lemons added and my trusty pantry ingredients of castor sugar, flour and eggs, this Orange & Lemon Custard Tart is what I came up with. And I’m so glad I did, because it turned out creamy with a gentle tart kick and a smooth velvety mouthfeel.
It’s always great when I get the opportunity to work with companies that have fabulous produce, and St Helens Farm certainly does great goat cheese.
Asked to develop the ultimate goat cheese charcuterie platter, I couldn’t help but also break out a fabulous recipe for goat cheese and oat biscuits to go with it.
Freezing all the seasonal fruit thats around right now is a great way to preserve it and save it to use another day. Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s difficult to do, it’s super easy to do , just a little time consuming. This is an easy step by step way to freeze fruit.
An easy recipe to use fresh cherries on this Fresh Cherry Frangipane Tart. Let the super juicy cherries drip down into the warm golden frangipane as the cherry glaze shines on the top. An incredible way to use seasonal cherries .
Making this easy blackberry custard tart isn’t difficult. This blackberry custard recipe is so easy to make and delicious to eat. Cooking with seasonal fruit is the what this tart is about, a perfect tart to have when ever there are blackberries in season. Custards tarts don’t need to be vanilla, especially when they taste this good and are tis easy to bake
Choux Buns with Brown Sugar Craquelin Top and Vanilla Mousseline Cream Recipe , easy to make at home but good enough to bring out when you want something to impress visitors. Choux pastry filled with a rich, smooth and glossy mousseline cream and topped with a brown butter craquelin, giving it a sweet crunch to balance it all.
Its slightly browny, sightly caky but 100% indulgent! A dense fudgy cake, so go to another recipe of your looking for a light and airy cake. The cake itself is moist because of the courgettes, rich and indulgent because of the cocoa, and as if that’s not enough, the delectable smooth dark chocolate ganache certainly tips it over the edge.
Lots and lots of basil ,both dried and fresh, with tons of black pepper, all goes to make the tomato sauce luxurious , layered and as if it has spent hours on the stove top being mixed with love.
This tomato sauce is a keeper!
Unbaked cheesecake, a staple at most get togethers in the UK, probably because it’s so blooming easy to make, and this Fresh Peach Jar Cheesecake isn’t any different.
Madeleines, the cake of the gods and just to make them extra, I’ve added a strawberry flavour dough to the middle and drizzled a little dark chocolate over one of the edges before adding a few chopped nuts, just to finish off.
Perfect Hand Stretched Goats Cheese thin based pizza with stuffed crust & home-made charred cherry tomato Sauce. So easy to make it should be added to your family recipe book. Using St Helens Farm Goat cheese in the charred crust and on top of the pizza makes it perfect for any get together or tea table.
Quick Fresh Tomato Salsa recipe , packed with fresh coriander and of course, fresh tomatoes.
A dash of minced garlic, a splash of white wine vinegar and some lime, whats left is a bowl of salsa thats fit to be in and on most things this summer.
Avocado and goats cheese dressing is perfect for salad and to smear on some toasted sourdough with a few slices of crispy bacon. Drizzled on this fresh mackerel and prawn salad giving a creamy dimension to this already filled salad.
This Tiramisu recipe is super easy to make and just as easy to eat. Traditional, authentic tiramisu with Creamy mascarpone, piped creamy top with a thick dusting of cocoa powder over the top. Perfect to double the ingredients and make it a show stopper for a family or friends get together.
Sweet Potato & Wild Garlic Gnocchi in a Three Tomato Cream Cheese Sauce with Charred Sesame Oil & Ras El Hanout Courgettes recipe has a few steps to it but is a super easy dish to make.
Enjoy the gnocchi in a big bowl with the charred courgette on the side. Gnocchi is a great make ahead dish, letting them sit in the fridge until the next day. Just re-heat the sauce, cook the gnocchi and then let them sit in the warm sauce until each one is coated in the sauce.
Lamb Peka- A Croatian Lamb Dish , a recipe that needs to be in every family recipe book for those days that you need amazing flavours but don’t want to work too hard. Full of flavour and a Croatian dish and sends love smells around my kitchen every time i make it.
Asparagus Tart with Wild Garlic Butter Flaky Pastry recipe is one of the easiest savoury tart to make and really showcases the summers crop pf asparagus.
Using wild garlic butter to make the quick flaky pastry is a game changer, and the pastry takes this tart from something good to something great.
Kuglof – Croatian Apple Bundt Cake recipe. A cake that looks as good as it tastes. With undertones of citrus and with apples running through the light sponge, It’s light and comes out of the tin in that unmistakable shape from the Bundt tin. Its the tin that gives the name to the cake, so if you can find a pretty one in a charity shop, i’d snap it up straight away.
Slow Cooker Balsamic Caramelised Onions, so easy to make and great for a family BBQ or for a crowd of people. When i need time for other things, this is the way to cook onions that are soft and full of favour.
