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I learned the art of pastry from my French mother. Pastry and pancakes (crêpes/galettes). And the truth is, what you grow up with influences your tastes. It’s part of why it’s so important for us as parents to fill our houses with healthy, fresh, delicious food. That is what our kids will remember and lean…
While we try and eat fish (particularly oily fish) a couple of times a week in our house, it can be tough to do this on a tight budget. We have managed to incorporate some organic produce, free range meat, organic milk and occasional organic nuts, grains and eggs by doing pretty much entirely cooking…
When summertime rolls around, salads are a go-to for me. If you use fresh, flavour-packed good-quality ingredients, they can taste genuinely amazing. The thing is, more traditional salads made with mostly crisp lettuce leaves are not going to go down well with my kids. They don’t mind salad leaves. In fact, they are usually willing…
My 2-and-a-half-year-old son has an olive obsession. He adores them. They will always be the first thing to disappear off his plate, and he will happily munch his way through as many as you let him have. Given his love for them (one shared only ever-so-slightly less enthusiastically by his sister and my husband and…
I love leftovers meals. Seriously. They are often my favourite meals of the week. Most of our lunches are leftovers. Last night’s dinner often gets popped in my husband’s lunchbox for work, and my kids scoff down any extra, or leftover lunches or dinners from earlier in the week. Saturdays we often end up having…
We eat quite a bit of homemade curry in our house. Not the complex, multi-layered curries that take hours to make and are truly delicious, but time-consuming. I make those occasionally (oh the smells they create in the house!), but mostly leave that to the experts and enjoy it as a treat takeaway or meal…