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Ah, Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it, it rears its head earlier each year, and the million-and-one cards and heart shaped balloons adorning the shop shelves are inevitably accompanied by scores of sugar laden treats. Candy, chocolates, cakes. That’s what Valentine’s Day is about, right? *ahem* Maybe not. But they do feature heavily on…
I’ve been getting better at prepping food for the week at the weekends. Snacks and lunches were often made under pressure from hungry children as I tried my best to get healthy food in front of them as quickly as possible for minimal whingeing time. But it was often highly stressful. I’m trying to prep…
Who doesn’t like fudge? If you answered “me”, I’m not sure we can be friends. Ok, kidding. But seriously, fudge is sweet, soft, squidgy (hmm, that doesn’t sound that appetising somehow), and succulent (ok, running out of words beginning with ‘s’ now…). Peanut butter fudge is a particular weakness of mine. Standard sugary shop-bought fudge…
One of the things I’ve been trying to do over the last few years, and which has yet again made it into my goals for 2018, is to reduce our food waste. I get so frustrated watching perfectly good food get wasted by supermarkets and others, but the truth is, I am far from blameless…
I love the quality and freshness of peak season citrus fruits in January. My sugar free lemon curd, tart and meringue pie have been very popular here, but there is one citrus fruit I am even more excited about: blood oranges. We used to occasionally get blood orange juice for breakfast when I was growing…
I have one more suggestion for you for what to do with that jar of sugar free lemon curd that took you 5 mins and 4 ingredients to make: sugar free lemon meringue pie. Tart lemon curd, sweet fluffy meringue, crunchy pastry. It’s a match made in heaven. And so easy. The pastry case is…