I have heard about this lots and read it on various blogs, but have never remembered to actually try it.
Yesterday Baba wanted a cake and I really couldn’t be bothered to make a full on cake, and I remembered the cake in the cup that I had been reading about. A quick search on the internet and we had the recipe and where raring to go. Continue reading »
To say that today has been trying has been an understatement.
Baba has been exceptionally hard work today. We have had tantrum after tantrum, and they haven’t been little ones either one of the tantrums literally went on for well over an hour. There was nothing that I could do to bring him out of it! If he wasn’t having a tantrum, he was screaming, throwing or hitting. It was hard work.
But there was a little saving grace today. In the name of cheese dumplings. Continue reading »
I know that I should be trying to loose weight, that I have over 4 stone to loose before I shall be comfortable.
But do you know what, Baba has been ill, Mr L is ill and Baba has his operation in two weeks. I am a little stressed and this week having Mr L at home being ill has made it worse. Trying to keep a two year old away from Daddy as Daddy is poorly is flaming difficult.
So I did what all amazing mums do I made Brownies. Continue reading »
Now we love food in this house, I am not a fantastic cook. But I love to try a recipe out whenever I can.
However out tastes do differ. I like vegetables and pasta, and fruit, Mr L is a meat man. Any kind of meat he will eat as long as meat is on the table he does not care. Although there is one meal that we all like and is a firm favourite in our house.
I found this recipe for a Caribbean beef stew for the slow cooker and thought that it looked pretty yummy. However I didn’t have all the ingredients this morning and wasn’t dressed when I was doing the cooking, so I was not going down town to buy them. So I tweaked the recipe to the ingredients that I had! But it turned out quite well… Continue reading »
Now I saw this on TV a while back and knew straightaway that I wanted to make it so I searched and searched for the recipe in the end I couldn’t find one. So I made it up. I used a basic cheesecake recipe and added my little chocolate bits.
It doesn’t matter how we got to the end result. Just the fact that the end result is amazing! It is so lovely, you can’t have lots of it though as it is rich, but still it is lovely! Continue reading »
Mince and dumplings, yum yum.
This has to be one of my all time favourite foods, it is something my mum made when I was a child, and I have always loved it, especially when it is wet and cold. Just like it was yesterday.
This time however I decided to do it in the slow cooker, and it was yummy! Luckily we found a bigger slow cooker at the weekend, so we can now do the whole dish in the slow cooker! So it was easy.
It was such a hit that Baba had two helpings, so too me that is a hit! For such a hit I just had to share it with you all. Continue reading »
(C) And Then All I Thought About Was You
I made this for Mr L’s Mum’s birthday. It was a real lets just put it together and see what we come up with cake. We had lots of oranges in the house and I thought that it would be a nice cake to make. Do you know what it turned out lovely!
So Saturday I used my slow cooker again and this time convinced Mr L that we had to buy a bigger slow cooker, due to not being able to fit the potatoes in with the recipe. I have to say I was really surprised that he agreed to it so easily, thought that there would be more of a fight but he was happy to get another one. He can see the benefits of having a slow cooker now that we have used it successfully a couple of times.
This time we made beef stew and it was lovely. I adapted a recipe that I had seen for slow cooker stew and I am glad that I did, it was really nice. Continue reading »
So today for the first time ever, I got out the slow cooker that my sister gave me and we tried it out.
I had no clue what to do with it, so of course I chose the place where everyone knows the answer to everything, Twitter. I vaguely remembered that The Moiderer had some slow cooker recipes on her blog, so I tweeted her and I was right. She told me to click on the picture of the slow cooker to get some recipes. So off I trotted and there are some lovely recipes on there. Lots that I want to try. Continue reading »
