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CF Eats
Married to a greedy Italian with two ravenous boys. Good, healthy home-cooked food is our love language.
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CF Eats: Leon’s ‘Happy Salads’ cookbook review
This new cookbook from Leon has seriously upped my salad game in time for summer in France
February Challenge: Go supermarket free all month
So, I’ve been toying with this idea for a while. Since moving to the country we have been buying more and more of our food from independent shops – bread from the bakery, meat from the butchers, fish from the fishmongers, cheese from the erm… cheese shop… not out of…
30 second review – Chi coconut water
I added this coconut water brand to my weekly shop, I’m not ashamed to admit, purely on the basis of its beautiful packaging. Isn’t it stunning? We are usually a Vita Coco household but what can I say – new year, new coconut water (isn’t that how the saying goes?!)…
CF Christmas: Delia Smith Christmas recipes
It is with rather a sleigh-load of trepidation that I am taking over the reins of Christmas Day hostess this year. Gulp. As the first year without Daddy, we figured being in the family home was probably not going to help, so have decided to do everything differently this year…
Current obsession: Whitworths shots – healthy snacks on the go
Regular readers will be more than aware of exactly how much I love Nakd bars, as an on-the-go gluten-free snack that I know isn’t going to deliver me one enormous sugar high and then subsequent slump. However, as a bit of a change, my coat pockets/bike basket/desk top have been…
Treasured possessions: Le Creuset volcanic orange cookware
I’ve featured a variety of my treasured possessions in this series of posts (as an antidote to my otherwise rather fervent love to buy, buy, buy) – from heirloom jewellery to my beloved Kenwood Chef mixer. Next up is an item that in one brightly coloured item of kitchenware, manages…
CF Health: Colds, Croup and a cup of Pukka tea
This box of Pukka teas was sent to me by their PR back in August and I thought ‘ooh, I’ll stash those for autumn, when ‘cold season’ hits’. Reader – that time has come. I might as well daub a cross above our front door and be done with it,…
CF Travels: Vale House Kitchen in Somerset, Foraging course
After the first part of my ‘Solo Mummy Adventure’, cossetted in the luxury of the Bristol Hotel, came rather a rude awakening the following morning, as I dashed off in the pelting rain and fog to the depths of the Somerset countryside: Nonetheless, neither the early start, nor the inclement…
CF Eats: Getting our milk delivered
Via Pinterest I am rather disproportionally excited about the fact that, come Monday, we will be having a milkman calling each morning this winter. How old-school is that?! (yes, we do have our papers delivered at the weekends, too – it’s the small pleasures). Of course there will be the…
Autumn pursuits: a sunday stomp and guilt-free hot chocolate
Come October, my favourite Sunday pastime is wandering aimlessly here: I have been stomping through this ancient Beech wood for the last 28 years. Nothing says home to me like this place. It is very, very, very special. Most cherished perhaps, because it was our family tradition to take off…
CF Eats: a working lunch and gluten free bread baking
Since my foraging course at Vale House Kitchen last week, I have become *slightly* obsessed with Nettle soup. No, not a confession I thought I’d be making either but imagine a cross between rocket and spinach made into a creamy emulsion with double cream, potato, garlic and stock… it’s amazing.…