Category: Recipes

A flatbread on a black and white plate with red plum tomatoes, green olives and golden hummus

Blogtober 2024 : Day 21

Hello, hello, it’s a new week – and blog post 1,001!  Thank you for your lovely words on yesterday’s post, I’m still grinning and eating cake 🙂 It’s been a bit of a foodie...

Unravelled green yarn on a wooden table next to an open laptop and the rest of the ball of yarn

Blogtober 2024 : Day 9

Brr, it’s been a cold one today in our house.  We’ve had a plumber round replacing the thermostats on our radiators as most of them were broken and would only work if you pulled...

Yellowy-green leek and potato soup in a pan with a metal soup ladle resting against the side. To one side of the pan are two bowls of the soup and a small plate with two crusty bread rolls on it.

Blogtober 2022 : Day 12

What are you having for dinner? I’m only asking because (aside from the fact that I’m nosey), we’re having soup tonight and it’s cooking in the oven whilst I write this.  I can smell...

A partly-knitted sock sits on a cream project bag next to a car gear stick.

“Why won’t this thing shut?!”

There has been a disaster on the Emergency Sock front. If you’ve been reading my posts through October (Blogtober) then you’ll have read about my Emergency Sock which is Basic 4ply Sock that lives...

Soup night – courgette and Brie

It’s Tuesday and after last week’s departure from soup to a bean casserole, we’re back on the soup again. Tonight, it’s courgette and Brie, a recipe which I originally found in my Covent Garden...

Soup night – leek and potato

Tuesday night is soup night in our house. I love soup night.  It’s an easy dinner to make and I really enjoying mopping up a bowl of soup with fresh bread – straight out...