A pink fairy princess castle cake in 7 super easy steps
Every little girl’s dream birthday cake is a pink fairy princess castle, right? I know I would’ve loved one when I was a child.! My best friend’s little girl, Miss A, is turning 5 and after discussing...
View ArticleHow to make a knights’ castle cake- Super Easy
Here’s another super easy birthday cake, another castle cake, this one a knights’ castle cake with lots of chocolate: It’s birthday party time. The request was for a Mike the knight party and a...
View ArticleHow to ruin a perfectly delicious fillet of wild salmon [with video evidence]
We love seafood! My kids would live on fish and other seafoods all the time if they could. Therefore it was a no brainer to volunteer to try some Alaskan Wild Salmon when I Mumsnet and the Alaskan...
View ArticleMeal planning for dummies
Cooking is one of those love hate things. I love to do it, but it becomes a chore to do daily. How often do you get to 5 pm and think: what the… am I going to make for dinner? Your brain whizzes...
View ArticleNailed it in an hour: Traditional Christmas dinner (almost)
Christmas roast with trimmings in an hour?! No way! -I hear you say. Bear with me: I did a test run today. I’ll let you be the judge how close I got (my friends on twitter inform me that I was...
View ArticleBread and butter pudding- using up the Christmas left-overs
Don’t know about you, but this has been a lovely, chilled Christmas for us. I did, however, over do the baking and shopping a little bit: I made the most delicious panettone and breads. However, with...
View ArticleCooking habits- Quick, simple, lighter with Onken
If you ask my kids what I do for them, they’ll often answer I cook great meals. This makes me proud, but also a bit sad that I’m not recognised for other things I do. Saying that cooking does...
View ArticleA camping beach-side birthday cake- what’s the story?
Sometimes different events collide and help create something better. The way Angelina’s birthday cake together was a bit like that. We’d postponed Angelina’s party a couple of weeks as we had such a...
View ArticleTytti’s dairy & gluten free chocolate cake …. with smash
Couple of weeks ago we went to Sweden and stayed with our friends, a lovely Finnish- Dutch couple. Tytti, our hostess, made the most delicious dairy and gluten free cake! I loved it, because it did...
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Octonauts birthday cake- Kwazii and Gup-B
*STOP PRESS- competition alert! Scroll to the bottom to win tickets to see the Octonauts at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham* The Octonauts have inadvertently crept into our lives, my 3 year...
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Memories of a Moroccan souk
2006 was a fabulous year! It was the year to indulge midlife crisis and sail from Malta, to Greece, along the whole Mediterranean coast of Turkey, before exploring the waters and shores of Northern...
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A pink fairy princess castle cake in 7 super easy steps
Every little girl’s dream birthday cake is a pink fairy princess castle, right? I know I would’ve loved one when I was a child.! My best friend’s little girl, Miss A, is turning 5 and after discussing...
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