This recipe I was given for amazing sweet potato bread is actually a recipe that calls for canned sweet potatoes which we don't get here in the UK (that I know of) so I adapted it using my own homemade version of canned sweet potatoes - it's AMAZINGBecause this recipe for sweet potato bread is a recipe that I know that my American readers might appreciate, I decided to use both grams and cups as measurements - I'm interested to see if that's something you'd like to see in future recipes, so please do let me know in the comments if you would.Ingredients for the mashed sweet … [Read more...]

Using up your leftover food can save you money as well as time so for today's round up post I thought I'd share 20 ways to turn your leftovers into a whole new meal....One of the things that makes me smile when I think about my lovely old Nana was how she could whip up a meal in the kitchen from practially nothing.  There was nothing wasted and anything she didn't use for one meal was incorporated into the next one - she really knew how to work those leftovers.For years, I didn't even think about leftovers - if it wasn't eaten then it went in the bin (I know, I'm hanging my head in … [Read more...]

Homemade pizza breadsticks are our new favourite food - they're easy to make and you wouldn't believe how amazing they taste.We've been having regular movie nights over the last month or so which is something we haven't done in a while as we could never agree on which film to watch.  We've been watching some older movies that we wanted to see with the kids because we remembered enjoying them when we first watched them way back in the day - Air Force One, Speed and the Back to the Future Trilogy have been our most recent watches!A teenager's attention span is a bit limited so rather … [Read more...]