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“Nice cream” is one of my favourite sugar and sweetener free desserts to pull out in the hot weather. I replace one of our portions of fruit in the day (usually we eat 2 in a day, occasionally 3) with the blitzed frozen fruit “ice cream” instead, and it makes everyone feel like they are…
My parents love to remind me of the time, as a child of four, I insisted that the waiter at a restaurant in Italy brought me fresh strawberries and cream for pudding in December. I could be quite bossy forceful determined at that age…ahem…ok, maybe still now… While I may still stubbornly dig my heels…
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…
With a heatwave hitting the UK at the moment, I’ve been stocking our freezer with our favourite ice creams for indulgent (and not so indulgent) treats. I have two types I rely on for different times in the heat: my sugar free vanilla ice cream (or variations on it) for more decadent, soft-scoop traditional ice…
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…