I admit it, I have a small problem. Cookbooks and cooking magazines have overflown out of the kitchen, out of the bookcases and all over the house. To make things even sillier, I don't often strictly follow a recipe. I love to tweak, adjust, be inspired. I often read them in bed, imagining flavours and [...]
If you're like me, you often find great recipe ideas on blogs or other websites. I used to just bookmark the pages but I found I quickly forgot about the bookmarks and as a result never used the idea. Printing out the recipe worked for a bit - but many blogs (like mine) have frilly [...]
As a perfectionist, it can be easy to cast a disparaging eye over someone else's trolley in the checkout queue and think "I'm way too awesome to eat lean cuisine". Hell, I've done it. (Sorry). Well you aren't so awesome when it's 9:00pm on a Tuesday night, you're starving and you end up in a [...]
Tomorrow I am hosting the family Christmas do (again). Surprisingly (for anyone who has ever met me or read one of my blog posts) I'm rather relaxed. I'm keeping it simple. Ok, so we don't have an elegant matching decoration theme (unless you count half-chewed-by-cats tinsel strewn across the floorboards with baubles and other christmas [...]
I have previously posted about how planning meals and writing shopping lists save me money, time and stress. I use free digital tools to do this (although a pen and paper will work too). The important bit is consistency and not wasting too much time stuffing around setting up a system. You will need to [...]
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