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Super Refreshing Homemade Lemonade….

253781 CommentSuper+Refreshing+Homemade+Lemonade....2025-05-13+13%3A00%3A02Cassandra May 13, 2025 By Cassandra
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Homemade Lemonade is the most amazing, refreshing drink that you can have on a hot day!We first shared a mint version of our homemade lemonade a few years ago when we had an over-enthusiastic mint plant growing on our kitchen windowsill and a big pile of fresh lemons sitting in our fruit bowl from the reduced section at the shop and it was amazing! Since then, we've tried all sorts of different lemonade flavours - blueberry, peach, strawberry and even a lavender flavour (which wasn't my biggest triumph) and they've all been lovely but on a hot day, there's no doubt in my … [Read more...]

Homemade flatbread – quick, easy and brilliant….

232186 Comments2025-05-11+20%3A55%3A09Cassandra May 11, 2025 By Cassandra
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Homemade flatbread is amazing because it's so versatile as well as being so easy to make that my two children could make it pretty much on their own from junior school. We used to have homemade flatbread with soup, made into mini pizzas, we use them as pocketless pitta bread filled with lovely fillings, as burger buns, wrapped around hot dogs, with scrambled egg and bacon on - you name it, we've probably served it with a homemade flatbread at some point. We always made this by hand rather than in our bread maker for no other reason than it just felt like more of a rustic … [Read more...]

Low Carb Airfryer Pancakes….

43600Leave a CommentLow+Carb+Airfryer+Pancakes....2025-04-24+10%3A28%3A07Cassandra April 24, 2025 By Cassandra
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Being a diabetic, I often feel like I'm missing out on certain foods so now that I feel like I've got a bit more of a handle on managing my diabetes, I'm trying to look for diabetic alternatives to the foods I enjoy so that I can continue to enjoy them. Today, I'm going to share my recipe for Airfryer low carb pancakes. I've recently started to use almond flour as an alternative to normal flour because it has a much lower carbohydrate content which makes it better for diabetics. It contains around 21g of carbohydrates per 100g compared to normal flour which typically has … [Read more...]

Eggstra Easy Easter Cupcakes {with a free Easter Cupcake Topper Printable}….

April 13, 2025 By Cassandra
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See what I did there with the title. ;-) I wanted to make some fancy Easter cupcakes to share with you today - the plan was that would wow you with my cooking prowess but the reality was very different. The cakes didn't look anything like they were meant to so I thought I'd share a few easy Easter cupcake ideas with you instead.Now, these ideas aren't necessarily Pinterest worthy but they taste amazing, they're easy to make and they have a definite Easter theme so let's just go with it...First up, the recipe I use for my cupcakes (they're all chocolate today) is a simple one that I … [Read more...]

Chocolate Easter Egg Cheesecakes….

April 13, 2025 By Cassandra
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Chocolate Easter Egg Cheesecakes are my new favourite thing!I had no idea that such an amazing thing as chocolate Easter Egg Cheesecakes even existed until someone brought some into work a month or so ago but since then, I've been meaning to have a go at making my own version to share with the kids! These were so easy to make yet they look and taste absolutely AMAZING! How to make amazing show-stopping chocolate Easter egg cheesecakes Maltesers Bunny Easter egg cheesecakeI crushed a pack of Maltesers up and added that to a third of today's … [Read more...]

Instant Pot Strawberry and Orange Jam….

May 21, 2024 By Cassandra
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This Instant Pot Strawberry and Orange Jam is the easiest way possible to make jam - honestly, no skills needed at all!I bought some Pectin a good six or seven months ago with the intention of making some sort of Christmas jam to share with you all but life absolutely got away from me and I absolutely failed at making the Christmas jam which, in my head, was going to smell and taste like everything we all love about Christmas.I also didn't make the Spring flavours jam that I vaguely planned to make although I got further than the Christmas jam here as I got as far as sitting at my … [Read more...]