City Living, Country Life – the best of both worlds
Married to a greedy Italian with two ravenous boys. Good, healthy home-cooked food is our love language.
Blimey, I’ve got my work cut out for me this weekend: Outside, I will be: Planting daffs and bulbs various – as well as tidying up the beds, ditching the annuals and dividing and re-homing some of the herbacious perennials. Planting up various bowls and planters with hyacinths and paper-white…
So, I’ve been gluten-free for a while now. Not in a militant ‘not a husk of wheat must pass my lips’ (I have no diagnosed intolerance or allergy that could warrant this totalitarian approach), but saying that, now that I’ve been pretty much gluten free for 4-5 months when I…
Gulp. I’ve gone and done it, I’ve written my first Christmas post. This year we are taking over the mantle of hosting the Christmas Day celebrations. As a family, we would rather not spend our first year without Daddy in our family home. Understandably. So, we figured by doing everything…
Full disclaimer: I have no idea where I learnt this recipe, but I am 110% sure that it is not something I made up myself. I remember reading it and thinking 1/ YUM! 2/ god that looks easy. Basically the two credentials for any mid-week supper in our household. You…
I think I’m in love – it’s the first thing I think about when I wake and the last thing on my mind as I drift off to sleep. My new Kenwood Chef stand mixer. Of course, to qualify for the ‘treasured posessions’ series, this is no off the shelf…
This weekend has been one of outdoor pursuits. You may remember my elderflower picking post from last summer with my brilliant countryside guru, Mrs B, well I decided it was high-time we put her local foraging knowledge to good use again. Namely blackberry and sloe picking, all in the name…
Before the sugar police interject, I realise that the inclusions of agave and maple syrup don’t strictly make this sugar-free; to clarify, I’m just talking about the really over-processed cane sugar in this recipe. Yes, of course maple syrup is a sugar, but it is a high-level, natural source of…
You know you’ve got it bad when you start planning what you’re going to eat at a place, a full 24 hours before you get there. I started a new job in Bristol this spring, as Online Editor for a brilliant new health and wellbeing brand (frustratingly top secret at…
So, over the past few months I’ve written a couple of posts about shifting my diet towards a gluten- and dairy-free approach. I’m not going to pretend this is because of any pseudo intolerances or allergies. I was just inspired by Natasha Corrett and Vicki Edgson’s cookbook, Honestly Healthy and…
Wimbledon has started! *pops cork* I thought I’d celebrate by sharing a raw vanilla cashew cream recipe I adore, inspired by the Honestly Healthy cookbook version. I have slightly tweaked the ratios and added a splash of this and a dollop of that; it’s that kind of recipe. Once you’ve…
After my amazing, energy boosting, skin-clearing, mood-balancing Green Cleanse from Purifyne, it inspired me to keep juicing. I have been wary in the past about investing in a juicer. They are bulky things, a faff to clean and I thought, would end up in the utility room after an initial…
God, I love these bars. I have managed to get my son, boss and best friend addicted to them, so I thought I’d move on to all of you next. First I’ll run through their credentials: Gluten, wheat and dairy free; no added sugars/syrups; cold pressed not baked (to preserve…