The Perfect Pudding for Winter….
I've just had a tidy out of my kitchen cupboards! I'm not sure what came over me - I went in to the kitchen to make a cuppa, noticed how messy the cutlery drawer was and it just spiralled out of control from there.... I found all sorts of weird and wonderful things, including cider vinegar that I have no recollection of buying, vanilla sugar that I forgot I had and lots of herbs and spices that I have no clue what to do with. One thing I did find that I was quite pleased with was a small amount of pudding rice so I thought that I would cook the kids some homemade rice pudding for after … [Read more...]
Cooking With Kids….
Last week I told you all about my new Cooking with Kids challenge and I really hope that as many of you as possible will join in with me. Basically, the idea is that I will post a recipe here on a Monday and you will have two weeks to make the recipe and either post about in or if you'd prefer, send me an e mail with your pics in it in that in two weeks time I can do a carnival type post containing links to all entries (lots of linky love for you) and I will ask someone, probably whoever's on Twitter at the time, to pick me a winner who will then be sent a lovely prize.We're going to … [Read more...]
Cooking with Kids – Cheese Straws….
I know I've said this before but just in case you missed it, I'll say it again :-) I think it's really important that we teach our children to cook. I spend lots of time in the kitchen with my two and we all really enjoy the time we spend together in there.I want to share some of the things we cook together with you but I also want you to join in with your children, so I'm going to have a cooking with kids challenge every fortnight and I'd love you to join in. I'll post a recipe on here and then you have two weeks to go away and make it with your children and add you recipe to the … [Read more...]
Christmas Spice Biscuits….
You know me, I love an easy peasy recipe so when I found this one for Christmas Cookies over on Parentdish, I couldn't resist trying it.Christmas Spice Cookies250g plain flour 125g butter 125g brown sugar 1 small beaten egg 3 teaspoons mixed spice pinch of saltPre heat your oven to 190'C / 375 F / Gas mark 5Beat the butter and sugar and then add the beaten egg to the mixture bit by bit.Add the rest of the ingredients and mix them all together until you can get your hands in and make it into a ball of dough.Roll out the dough until it is about 1/2 cm thick, … [Read more...]
Chocolate Cupcakes with Nutella Frosting….
I think I may have just secured the Mother of the Year Award, for Miss Frugal's Christmas party at school tomorrow I've made chocolate fairy cakes with Nutella icing. They looked very Domestic Goddess-like until I let her loose with the sprinkles!Because I'm a lovely person, I'm even going to share the recipe with you so you can impress your kids too....Nutella Frosting 250g icing sugar 80g butter / margarine 75ml milk 90g Nutella (slighly melted - 30 seconds in the microwave does the trick)Because I'm lazy, I used an electric whisk to mix the butter and the icing sugar into a … [Read more...]
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