This rather wonderful tea bread started life as an extremely simple ordinary bread loaf
Sugar Free Chocolate, Cranberry and Walnut Tea Bread
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Do you need, or want, extremely cheap meals, to eat for 50p a day for a bit, or even longer?
Are you extra skint this month? This post shows how you can eat well, on an incredible 50p PER DAY!
Arguably the best chocolate brownies – Ever!
This very simple chocolate brownie recipe makes the best chocolate brownies!
Fudgy, gooey, white chocolate blondies
Earlier in the month, I posted about some really good brownies. Last week, I took it into my head to make some blondies. I used the exact same recipe, but using white chocolate instead of plain, and oh my, were they good!
Tomato & Chive Soda Bread
The milk makes this a lovely soft bread, the tomatoes and chives make it very flavoursome. Can be enjoyed just as it is, especially still warm from the oven. Or have it with soup, with butter, or not, or a sliver of cheese.
Walnut ‘Nutella’ and wheat bisks bites. These are so good they’re dangerous!
Having tried faux Nutella with hazelnuts and butter, I wanted to try another version with oil. Having run out of hazelnuts, I used walnuts. So I nipped into the kitchen and this was rustled up in just a few minutes. Home Made Walnut Nutella Priced at Asda, July 2017...
Lots of different things you can make, all using Magic Dough kept in the fridge
These are just some of the things I have made using Magic Dough. I’m sure there will be others!
How to make a cake with just 3 ingredients, or maybe even 2! For when the SHTF?
This cake is rather special. It uses the irreducible minimum ingredients, and yet tastes rich and ‘special occasion’
Home made bread rolls with added stuffing mix
Tried something a little different today. I have a huge bag of stuffing mix from Approved Foods that isn’t being used up very quickly, so I am thinking about how I can use more of it. I wondered what it would be like used as part of the mix when making bread rolls. I...
Gorgeous Granola Breakfast Bars. Super simple to make
My husband loves the Sainsbury granola bars. Those ones in the paper bags, sold by the bread. I’ve been playing around with a recipe for a while now, trying to get it right. Think I’ve cracked it this time!
How to bake a loaf to perfection using a meat thermometer
Walking The walking is going really well lately. Have upped the target to 12,000 steps a day after our Swiss holiday. Still not managing it every day, but more and more days, I do. We walked from The Beachy Head pub to the lighthouse this Sunday, that was almost...
Something old and something new. A lovely pie and a leftovers pudding
Using ancient homemade plum jam and some leftover bread, this rather wonderful pudding was created