Lucy's Friendly Foods

Lucy's Friendly Foods979 recipes

Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts

Cooking recipes from "Lucy's Friendly Foods" - page 30


Vegetables au Vin

Vegetables au Vin

I spend a lot of my time on my lengthy train commute watching food programmes – for me the perfect way to unwind at the end of a busy working day! Often I get inspiration from these programme…

Goody Good Stuff Taste Testers at work!

Goody Good Stuff Taste Testers at work!

We’re pretty excited to have been chosen as part of the Koalaty taste team for Goody Good Stuff, we thought we’d take the role seriously and host a proper taste testing session.

Pea Croquettes with Spicy tomato relish

Pea Croquettes with Spicy tomato relish

I was watching Michel Roux on the BBC Food and Drink programme the other week and he made some chicken croquettes with a tomato relish – they sounded like just the kind of dish I could do som…

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

Cheesecake is a big favourite in our household – probably the most requested pudding/dessert, even above chocolate brownies! This version is is reminiscent of those chocolate cheesecakes you …

Cocoa Cinnamon Swirl Muffins

Cocoa Cinnamon Swirl Muffins

Muffins are such a great staple, slightly less fancy and celebratory than an iced cupcake, but perfect for an everyday treat.

Moroccan Spiced Chickpea and Aubergine Salad

Moroccan Spiced Chickpea and Aubergine Salad

Spring has sprung! Time to dust off some salad recipes and replace the comfort foods with more fresh vibrancy.

Key Lime Pie

Key Lime Pie

We move house today; after far too long in a not perfect house we’re at last moving into our new home.

Banh Mi

Banh Mi

I’m trying to revolutionise my lunches – no more buying sandwiches if I can help it.

Balsamic Fudgies

Balsamic Fudgies

When I first saw this concept of pairing balsamic with chocolate I was totally intrigued.

Mango and Lime Sorbet

Mango and Lime Sorbet

You might have noticed my constant search for suitable allergen-free puddings.

Lemon Scented White Chocolate Truffles

Lemon Scented White Chocolate Truffles

I had intended to make these truffles to stand in as the little chocolate eggs found on chocolate cornflake nests for the girls to take in for their classes as an Easter treat.

Cinnamon Syrup Crinkles

Cinnamon Syrup Crinkles

It was one of those busy days – a jam packed morning, followed by a picnic and afternoon out.

Herby potato salad

Herby potato salad

Easter is over, so it’s definitely time to move away from the chocolate and towards fresh spring flavours.

Lemon drizzle tray bake

Lemon drizzle tray bake

You might have noticed a sudden influx of zippy flavours in my recipes – spring is such a transforming time of year, its difficult to not pay homage to it in your cooking – moving to fr…

Smoky potato tian

Smoky potato tian

  I have had the idea of making a tian on my mind for a while.

Strawberries and Cream Pinwheel Biscuits

Strawberries and Cream Pinwheel Biscuits

I’m out of cocoa powder – utter disaster!! I’ve mentioned before the difficulty in finding safe milk-free cocoa and since I only visited Waitrose this week and they don’t se…

Caramel marble cake

Caramel marble cake

This recipe was devised due to spying a little bottle of caramel essence in Waitrose.

Mexican Taco Soup

Mexican Taco Soup

  It’s funny how you suddenly feel like eating a certain dish.

Homemade Oreos with a Rose Cream Filling

Homemade Oreos with a Rose Cream Filling

Big S has been asking me to make Minteos for ages (my mint version of Oreos) – I’ve kept putting it off as I remembered it was quite a laborious task involving multiple sheets of cookie…

Roasted tomato and shallot salad

Roasted tomato and shallot salad

This is just the thing when your tomatoes are not quite ripe, or even a little past their best but you really fancy a delicious tomato salad.

Copyright RecipesAvenue ©2026. All rights reserved.