If you've never made homemade shortbread before, you're in for a treat. There are some recipes that I come back to time and time again, and this is definitely one of them. It only uses three everyday ingredients, takes very little effort and somehow tastes so much better than shop-bought shortbread. For years, I thought shortbread would be one of those recipes that was difficult to get right, but I promise you that it couldn't be easier. If you can mix three ingredients together, you can make these delicious shortbread biscuits. Start Here This recipe is part of my Start Here series, … [Read more...]
Easy Budget Energy Balls Recipe – No Bake & Perfect For Using Up Muesli….
Every so often I convince myself that this is the time I'm going to become someone who happily eats a bowl of muesli for breakfast every morning. I smugly buy a box of muesli, have one bowl, pour the rest into a nice storage jar... and then completely forget it exists. 😂 A few months later, I'll find it tucked away at the back of the cupboard and wonder why I bought it in the first place. This week, when I found my latest box of muesli at the back of the pantry, while on a search for some stock cubes, I decided to turn it into a batch of homemade energy balls. Using muesli … [Read more...]
Easy Roasted Tomato Soup Recipe….
I wasn't planning on making soup this week, but then I spotted a 7kg tray of tomatoes at our local farm shop for just £5 and I couldn't leave them behind. There was absolutely no chance we'd get through that many tomatoes before they started to turn as there's only me really who eats them so I decided to spend an afternoon roasting them and turning them into soup for the freezer as I love a good soup for lunch when I'm working from home. I've made roasted tomato soup for years, but I've gradually tweaked the way I make it. These days I don't bother quartering the tomatoes … [Read more...]
Overnight Oats – what’s all the fuss about?
For the longest time, I was convinced I wouldn't like overnight oats. The name just made me think of cold, soggy porridge that had been forgotten about in the fridge overnight. It didn't sound remotely appealing and, despite hearing people rave about them for years, I never felt tempted to give them a go. But I needed to get better at breakfast and in order to do that, I needed to be able to just grab something from the fridge and eat it as I knew I just wouldn't bother if it wasn't easy as I've never been a breakfast person. I gave them a try, and I couldn't have been more … [Read more...]
Basic Quiche Recipe – perfect for using up leftovers….
My basic quiche recipe is one that I learned from my Mam years ago. I always used to look forward to her baking days because they were wonderfully predictable. There would almost always be a quiche, a corned beef pie and a cake chosen from her well-thumbed Be-Ro cookbook. I can still picture her standing in the kitchen with that cookbook open on the worktop, deciding which cake to make while the quiche and corned beef pie were already well underway. Looking back, I think those baking days are probably the reason I still love making simple, homemade food now. They're some of my happiest … [Read more...]
Instant Pot Chicken and Rice….
This Instant Pot chicken and rice recipe is one of those meals that I still think about, which probably sounds a bit dramatic considering we’re talking about rice in a bowl, but honestly, it was that good. I don’t actually have my Instant Pot anymore, which is one of those practical decisions that made sense at the time but still makes me a bit sad. We simply didn’t have the space for it in our old house, so it had to go, but I really do miss it. There were a few things I made in it regularly, but this chicken and rice was the one meal that everyone loved and the one I could make without … [Read more...]
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