I’m being more experimental with my food recently. I’m trying to fit in lots of new recipes in my meal plans each week. I am LOVING this US website: The Kitchn. It’s got so many great recipes, and you can…
Sometimes the best recipes are just completely random and thrown together. This meal was supposed to be a sophisticated kind of cassoulet with sausage, lentils and bacon. But I forgot the lentils. So it became sausage with plenty of small…
Roast dinners are a gorgeous ritual and one that we indulge in pretty much every Sunday in our family. But sometimes you want a roast that delivers on comfort and flavour but is easy too. This is that. In fact…
We have SO many children’s books. When they were both babies I used to buy loads from the charity shops and stash them away for when they got older. We definitely don’t have much room for many more, and I’m…
Is anyone else really feeling the winter this year? I’m normally a winter lover; snuggling up with a hot choc in front of the fire is my idea of bliss, but even I’m flagging by now and fantasising about packing…
I’m a stay at home mum. By choice. I consider myself very fortunate (not lucky as we’ve both worked hard to get where we are) to be able to afford to not go to work, as my husband has a…
Sunday just gone Adam and I attended a day long course at The School of Artisan Food at the Welbeck Estate. I bought the course as a gift for Adam and cheekily asked if I could come along too to…
Hello everyone! I feel the need to actually make the effort to say the words “Hello” as I don’t see you much around these parts of late. I used to pop up so regularly in your feed that I didn’t…
Every year the Brady family Christmas continues to takes shape. By this I mean that new rituals are added in, lots of old ones keep going, some are dropped (sorry Elf on the Shelf, you are now just Elf Who…
Christmas Dinner can be overwhelming when you are the one cooking it. I know, everyone says “Oh it’s just a Sunday roast with bells on” but there can be a LOT of bells. And when you add into the mix…
So I have had these feelings for a long time, but I keep ignoring them. In a nutshell, I want to live better. By ‘better’, I mean I want to feel good about my place in the world; that I’m…
If you’re anything like me, you love Christmas but every year you feel slightly nauseous at the over the top commercialism of it all. Gift-wise, we only give to kids in the family. I always do a charity donation usually…
