When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing blogs or cooking for the lovely Mr G, this is wha

Baker & Foodie Content Creator

Hi.

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

It's All About The Sausage Roll & Supporting Our Communities

It's All About The Sausage Roll & Supporting Our Communities

Lee Majhen-Todd

If you’re reading this, you’re already half way to entering the adult Great North East Sausage Roll Off 2025, so, let’s start with the email you’ll need to message to get your entry form and rules of entry:

Fbc.Enquiries@outlook .com

Now you’ve emailed to get you’re entry form, read on to find out more of what The Great North East Sausage Roll Off is about and why Foodie Book Club CIC is using it to help our communities.

What’s not to like about a sausage roll? Rich flaky pastry with a filling of pretty much anything you want. Imaginations can run free when it comes to adding a middle to the roll, and it’s this imagination that we’re hoping will attract people to bring their sausage rolls along to compete with others on August 30th 2025 at The Charles Attwood Club, Wolsingham.

Entering the Great North East Sausage Roll Off is about having fun, but it also means that you’ll be helping to combat isolation and food insecurity in our communities.

Food insecurity is a significant problem in the North East of England, with the region experiencing some of the highest rates of food poverty in the UK. Walking alongside food insecurity is isolation.

 Foodie Book Club CIC raises money to fund the projects we organise.

Some of of our Foodie Book Club CIC Wolsingham Members

Some of our projects:

  • Free monthly community lunches to try to build support networks for those in the community who feel isolated.

  • Christmas gift trees which help us collect presents to make children smile.

  • We have projects which provide free ingredient boxes along with re-usable recipes sheets, to help families use foodbank ingredients to learn how to cook cost effective nutritious meals.

  • Free air fryers along with re-usable recipe sheets to help those in the community who experience food and energy insecurity.

Click the links to find out more about:

  •  Food Insecurity in the North East

  •   Isolation in the North East

Some of our members

How It Works

Step 1: Email Fbc.Enquiries@outlook.com and we will send you the entry form along with the rules for entering.

Step 2: Return the completed entry form (along with a stamped addressed envelope and entry fee). Return by August the 8th 2025.

Paying by cheque – Make it out to Foodie Book Club CIC and write your Full Name on the back of the cheque as your reference.

Paying by bank transfer, (Sort Code: 20-83-73 Account Number: 93212882) Use your Full Name as reference.

 Once we receive the entry form, payment and the stamped addressed envelope, we will send you your Unique Entry Number (Securely attach this unique number to the underside of each plate that you enter).

 Step 3: Bring your sausage rolls to The Charles Attwood Club Wolsingham (adult competition no later than 2pm on 30th August 2025) – Remember to attach you unique entry number to each entry.

Step 4: We judge each entry blind, announce the winner and give out prizes. Winners have their recipes reproduced on this website, on social media, Weardale Gazette and other places.

 Judges

 We have great judges helping us with The Great North East Sausage Roll Off:

  •  Ahmed Abdalla, Head Chef from The Legacy,  AA Three Rosette restaurant in The Grand Hotel York.

  • Kyle Bowman, Head Chef at the Exchange 1856, in North Shields. North East Chef of the Year 2023.

  • Lee Majhen-Todd. Founder & Director of Foodie Book Club CIC. Recipe developer. Judge at The Great Taste Awards.

  • Plus 2 more - TBD

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