This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! Jump to:💭 Why you’ll love this recipe 📋 Ingredients and notes 📖 Step-by-step instructions🍴 Serving and storage suggestions📖 Recipe💬 Comments 💭 Why you’ll love this recipe Vegan, nut-free, can be made gluten-free: This salad uses a crunchy Brussels Sprouts base and a delicious, creamy vegan Caesar dressing that you won’t even realize is vegan!...
Today’s recipe is another autumn classic, which I have been planning on making for a while – deliciously moist carrot cupcakes fragrant with spices and topped with luscious and pillowy cashew cream. I’ve dragged my feet as I was worried that they may sabotage a goal I’ve set myself in my personal life, but I have worked out a way to deal with it. Inspired by a chat with my therapist, I have been on a journey of honouring commitments to myself a little more lately and I’m learning to set myself small and tangible goals – something I have not grown up with really....
Happy Friday, guys! Hope you are well and have some exciting weekend plans to look forward to! I’m juggling finishing off my posts with running errands and packing as tomorrow, we are off to an undisclosed location (it’s meant to be a surprise) for Duncan’s birthday weekend. I think that we are both very excited about it. We are looking forward to some quality time together and some much needed time offline (me) – I’ve promised myself not to spend any time on social networks other than recipe posting so I’m sorry, but I won’t be as responsive as usual....
Happy weekend, you guys! Hope this week has treated you well and that the weekend continues in the same vein. I’ve had a bit of a challenging start to the week – felt a bit low – but things fell back into place towards the end and I thought I would celebrate with a sweet recipe for peanut butter fudge! While stuffing our faces with photoshoot leftovers, Duncan and myself mused over how we have both had a strange love and hate relationship with peanut butter (separately as we didn’t know each other then)....
Ho, ho, ho, only a week and a half to go! Can you believe it? It’s gone so fast for me. Time to have a good think about what to cook for the Xmas table, I think. This year’s Xmas “pièce de résistance” is a Beet Wellington with a twist. I made a beet Wellington two years ago and while I still stand by that recipe, I decided to shake things up a little while keeping the general theme and flavour profile the same....
I’m making a very brief appearance on the blog as I’m in the middle of some self-induced household chaos and despite my best efforts, I’ve gotten a little stressed. First, it was little niggles like the fixtures not matching each other despite being purchased from the same range, necessitating countless calls and emails to customer service and having to explain and send photos of the same thing again and again before anything gets actioned while the contingent renovation milestones got dangerously close....
While Wednesday is often referred to as hump day, it’s been a good day so far. After feeling the wrath of two super storms – Ciara and Dennis – for the past two weeks, the sun is out and the wind has calmed down a lot – which is a relief, I did not think our roof was going to stay intact. We have finally had our downstairs floor finished, kitchen island moved back, sink reconnected and last night we found a sofa we like, of the right dimensions for the living room and one that is not filled with bird feathers....
This easy mushroom pasta sauce tastes great with angel hair pasta or fettucini. It pairs well with tender grilled chicken breast, shrimp, or steak and comes together in a matter of minutes. Craving Italian Restaurant Pasta? Then you must try this recipe! If there is one recipe of mine you make, be sure it’s this! Okay okay and a few others, but I must say this is a favorite....
The whole thing takes only 20 minutes to throw together, especially since the minimal amount of prep work can be done while the pasta and veggies cook. It’s dressed in a light, bright dressing made of lemon juice and zest, mayonnaise, garlic, and extra-virgin olive oil. It’s so good, in fact, that I’m sitting here writing this post at 9 in the morning munching on the leftovers (which, by the way, hold up extremely well!...
WHAT IS ONION PAKORA? 25-Minute Crispy Deep-Fried Onion Pakora is an Indian/Pakistani appetizer. It’s Pyaz Pakora in Urdu and Pyaz Bhaji or Pyaz Pakoda in Hindi. Onion pakoras originated in India and made their way to Pakistan. Now it serves as a staple on Iftar table during Ramadan. This is gluten-free and vegetarian recipe. Onion Pakoras are all my favorite Pakoras. Give me all the Onion Pakora and they will be gone in 5 minutes....
Hope you guys have had a good weekend and your week has started well. We went walking along the Somerset coast with a couple of friends on Sunday and it was a great day full of sunshine, sea air, conversation and banana bread. Despite the beautiful weather, it was quiet, peaceful and very relaxing. We returned feeling very tired yet restored and we vowed to go on day trips more often given how much beautiful nature there is almost on our doorstep....
Giant baked potato or jacket potato, as it’s commonly known in the UK, is a bit of a British institution. It’s truly special as not only does it epitomise quick comfort food, but it appears to cut through social class and, as any foreigner who spends a chunk of time living over here will know, that’s very rare when it comes to food in the UK. I will be the first one to admit that I have had a long period of looking down on it....
Okay, I dragged my feet a little, I’ll admit, but I am finally ready to embrace the pumpkin season. Despite trying to hold on to summer for as long as I could possibly get away with, I actually love autumn – could it be because I am an October child? Possibly. I love warm autumn sunshine, colourful leaves rustling underfoot, the smell of bonfires and pumpkins. Of course, I love pumpkins!...
A fool-proof beef barbacoa recipe that can be cooked in an Instant Pot or slow cooker with cloves, chipotle peppers, and nutmeg. The tender beef is perfect to shred for keto chipotle bowls on a taco tuesday or to eat on top of a taco shell. This is a family friendly meal worth trying! Slow Cooked Beef Barbacoa When a tough meat is slowly cooked the tenderized final result is one to dream about....
I know, I know. Leftover prime rib in a SOUP? Blasphemy. But you guys, I made SO MUCH PRIME RIB for Christmas dinner. Too much. It was my first time making it and now I know better for next time. So I made beef broth from scratch with the bones and chopped up the leftover meat to add to this soup. And you know what? IT WAS AMAZING. You could use leftover steak, pot roast, beef tenderloin, or roast beef in this beef barley soup… literally whatever you have....
I hope you are having a good week and are full of beans! And if not, I’m certainly on a mission to set that right 😉 . It’s funny how this saying basically implies that eating beans is key to wellness and happiness. And as it turns out it’s damn right! Beans are one of the healthiest things to eat on the planet – I’m sure you have heard of Blue Zones?...
📖 Make the best Danish butter cookies! Cut your butter into small cubes. They’re buttery and delightful. Danish butter cookies, as the name suggests, are buttery! They’re also delightful, crispy, and melt-in-your-mouth good. If you’re a fan of shortbread cookies, then you’ll definitely enjoy these. They make amazing gifts. Danish butter cookies are always a welcome treat. You can wrap them up in themed bags, or delightful cookie boxes or tins!...
I love that the salad can be customised to my family’s tastes and/or what is in season and the flavour is unlike any store-bought taco seasoning I’ve tried (and without the additives!) A dollop of sour cream or sriracha mayo is also a must! The added bonus is that the beef filling can be frozen, so you can make a double batch and have it ready for a rainy day....
Happy weekend guys, hope you have cool things planned? We are continuing with our ceiling odyssey – Duncan is putting the final layer of paint on it right now and I will paint the coving for the last time hopefully (it’s a very fiddly job) as soon as I’ve written this recipe up for you. Feels like not an ideal way to spend a weekend, but we are soooo excited as we can finally glimpse how stunning our living room will look when it’s finished....
If, like me, you don’t seem to be able to find your place on Earth, you’ll be familiar with the following scenario. You are happy and settled but suddenly you get an itch to turn your life upside down again. You sit on it for a while, eventually it’s now or never. You make the decision (with a fair amount of emotional toing and froing). You start packing all your possessions into boxes....
