I have been experimenting with avocado lately. The fruit is widely used, but often in very simple ways. If you have seen one avocado toast then you have seen them all. Nothing wrong with that but I feel that there are more interesting recipes to do with avocados. So I created this lovely fragrant avocado butter. It's …
Gluten-Free Cheese Biscuits
I made a recipe like this a while ago for this blog, but I wanted to make these yummy treats for my cousin and his girlfriend fiancée. However, it needed to be gluten-free. So I took the base of the recipe and started to experiment with it. I had to change some of the ingredients …
A Fruity Wrap
Jackfruit is a tropical fruit from India and when ripe it tastes like a cross between a banana and a pineapple, but so much stickier. But the unripe fruit is an excellent meat alternative, as the fruit has a very fibrous texture so it looks like pulled pork and with no real flavour of its …
Fresh Saffron Ravioli with Goat Cheese Filling
Fresh pasta is a wonderful thing to make, but I find that people often get scared that it will be too difficult. Don’t worry. It's very easy. If you are using a food processor, the hardest bit is already done for you, but I like to make it by hand as it gives me more …
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Cacao but Not Hot Chocolate
I had a dream, well actually my friend had the dream. She dreamt one night about making coffee, but instead of ground coffee beans, she used cacao. Once I had been told about this idea, I was intrigued. I had read that the Mayans and Aztecs, followed a similar process of turning the ground and …
A Hot Story for a Cold Day
It was a freezing day in late January. Snow fell from the sky, ice covered the trees in a glittering coat and breath appeared in small white puffy clouds, and on a day like this I wanted to go swimming! In the winter I love the idea of finally being able to remove the numerous …
Nuts about Christmas Nuts
It’s that time of year again, Christmas! The time of snow, of hot chocolate, of woolly hats and of fires. I always enjoy this time as I can sit inside and look out the window, wrapped in a blanket and think “I am so glad I don’t have to go out in that cold weather”. …
Fruity Tea Bread
Fruity tea bread is a classic in our family. When you have just come home from a long day at work and want a snack before dinner, this is the first thing we always reach for. It can be eaten cold or toasted covered in dripping butter with a cup of tea in the evening. …