Potato pancakes

We had mashed potato with our tea the other night, and I deliberately made too much, thinking that I could whip up a batch of gnocchi for tea the next day. But thenI stumbled across a recipe for potato pancakes, in a free mini mag that came with our Good Food magazine, and decided we had … Continue reading →

Love Your Leftovers….

I’m back! All Christmas’d out and raring to go…. How was your Christmas? Ours was lovely, I hope yours was too 🙂 Now, obviously you lot are a canny bunch and will have cooked exactly the right amount of food so that are no leftovers, and we have all achieved zero food waste over the … Continue reading →

Crispy Stars!

Bake 2 of the bakes for the Pre-School Christmas fair wasn’t really a bake at all. More of a melt and stir. I got the idea from the fabulous Nurturestore site whilst browsing it for advent activities to do with the kids. Cathy made these very cute snowmen:   I adapted the recipe a little, … Continue reading →

The Veg Machine!

Hubby discovered a great new app last week, that I am hoping will help to make we are always able to use up every last scrap of the veg we buy each week. We got a weekly Veg Box from Riverford. Which is brilliant, and the quality is fab, and the veg is delicious. But … Continue reading →

20 Elderflower Recipes

It’s June! Which means it’s Summer, AND it’s elderflower season. I had a go at making elderflower cordial last summer, without a huge amount of success. It looked a little bit like horse wee once it was bottled up, but it didn’t taste too bad…. We were sat watching the fantabulous Mary Berry on i-player … Continue reading →

Hot Cross Bunnies!

Taking inspiration from an excellent Make Do and Mend Magazine Blog Post Thing I stumbled across on the web somewhere ( 😉 )I decided to have a go at the very cute little bread bunnies, BUT with a hot cross bun bread mix. To make….Hot Cross Bunnies. But without the crosses. So maybe, more accurately, … Continue reading →

Slow Cooking #2

Flushed with the success and energy saving smugness of the slow cooker chicken, I decided to make further use of the slow cooker with the leftovers. Stock I put the carcass, the giblets, the carrot tops and tails and some very sorry looking brussel sprouts back in the slow cooker (saved on washing up as … Continue reading →

Tea and cake

Or coffee and cake. Whatever floats your boat. This Friday, the 27th September, our pre-school are joining in with the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning (in the afternoon). We are inviting all our parents, and people from the local community, to come and join us for a cuppa and a piece of delicious cake (or two) … Continue reading →

Fruitful Friday

TFI Friday! And Fruitful Friday, for anyone doing the Better Food for All Challenge for Waste Less Live More week. At this time of year, there is lots of FREE fruit about. Blackberries (I blogged about free jam over on the Pinaddicts blog a week or so ago), elderberries (to make your Christmas gin), and … Continue reading →

The best cookies ever, and a homemade bag…

Bright and early on Bank Holiday Monday, I ventured back to the wilds of Swindon, to the BBC Radio Wiltshire building to give the listeners of Mark O’Donell’s Mid Morning Show my final analysis on my Make Do and Mend Year. I have been in regularly during the course of the year, and wanted to … Continue reading →