Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts

If you need a chocolate fix, then this is the cookie for you.

It may still be March, but the weather today looks perfect for a trip to the beach.

This sauce is blinding! Packed full of sweet roasted tomato flavour, it adds to many a dish.

For a dairy-free cookie these are remarkably ‘buttery’ and are perfect for cutting into any shape and even icing.

Little S is getting a certificate tomorrow in the end of term prize giving – we’re very proud and she certainly deserves it :-).

Yet more salads! I’ve always had a fondness of potato salad that I can’t really explain – gloopy cold potatoes anyone? This version can be easily made either dairy and egg free or…

Here’s a chocolate chip cookie recipe that robust, soft, cakey and a little more substantial than your delicate cookie.

Here (at last) is the recipe for the celebration cupcakes I made for little S, the ones that were to be decorated with the rainbow drops I made on Thursday.

How very exciting… I’ve been nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award by Susartandfood! Thank you so much Susartandfood for noticing my fairly new blog.

This is a cobbled together recipe, using store cupboard ingredients, and it worked an absolute treat – I’ve already been asked for the recipe by my helpful tasters!! If you like coconut…

It’s been one of those days… but hopefully after three disasters in a few short hours things are going to start looking up.

Easter is a bit different for us, in a household where the children are dairy-free, egg-free and nut-free.

So, with the lack of actual Easter Eggs in this house I decided to make some chocolate biscuits in the shape of eggs.

No, not made of Giraffes, just from the restaurant chain! We had an unusual Easter Sunday… A very early morning Easter egg hunt (luckily the Easter Bunny had visited) followed by a day out wi…