Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts

Last Friday I had the most fabulous foodie day.

If your primary school aged children don’t have allergies you can wrap a hastily bought present, get them to scribble a card and you’re good to go to a party! Not so the family with you…

This Sunday in Alresford, Hampshire, UK is the first ever World Watercress Soup Championships – providing the perfect opportunity for my first competitive culinary challenge.

As I’ve mentioned before, Sainsbury’s is normally a complete nightmare to shop in if you are dairy, egg and nut-free, with a complete lack of (or even non existence of) choice in a lot …

Here’s a picture of my second batch of watercress soup in preparation for the Watercress soup world championship – it was nice (delicious even) but no winner in my opinion! Batch one wi…

It’s the weekend (and a rather dull, wet one too) so what better lunch could you wish for than an English style veggie brunch.

Not quite a flapjack, maybe seeming a little more healthy and a fail-safe filling snack.

I think that most people will agree that banana and chocolate is a fantastic combination – and this recipe can be thrown together at a moments notice from just five basic ingredients and then…

This is a great recipe if you’re all out of bread for the next morning and can’t face the trip to the shops.

This idea is inspired by a sandwich I had in Pret a Manger the other day (I do have a fondness for their sandwiches) which featured pea hummus and feta and was really fresh, summery and different.

As a vegetarian (non-gelatine eating) it’s been a very, very long time since I’ve eaten a marshmallow.

Ginger snaps are lovely biscuits, and while McVitie’s Ginger Nuts are a great dairy, egg and nut free standby, sometimes it’s nicer to have homemade.

Little S has a big school trip tomorrow – off to London to watch changing of the guard, see Buckingham Palace and picnic in a Royal Park.

I used to make these a lot with dairy yogurt (an old recipe from Good Food magazine, although not quite the same) and thought that maybe it could persuade Big S that bananas are worth eating.