Food: Double chocolate chip cookies recipe & video
This is my go-to fail-safe cookie recipe and it’s always a crowd pleaser. I still haven’t mastered the art of making ‘pretty’ cookies but they taste so good that it really doesn’t matter. For me, the...
View ArticleFood: Salted caramel doughnuts recipe
I did something really stupid yesterday. I learnt to make doughnuts. Salted caramel doughnuts in fact. I’d always been intrigued by homemade doughnuts as I’d heard that they’re much easier to make than...
View ArticleFitness Friday – Week #11 & Breakfast Banana Split recipe
So I’ve finally got round to snapping some photos of Leon’s Breakfast Banana Split so I could make it into a recipe post! Cheat day was Sunday this week as we went to Prezzo for a meal with the family....
View ArticleBaby-friendly recipe: Fish cakes
We started giving Huxley solids at around 4 months. The guidelines say 6 months but Huxley was always a big boy and even our health visitor thought he was ready for real food. In fact, just before we...
View ArticleBaby-friendly recipe: Blueberry pancakes
I know that pancakes probably aren’t the first thing that springs into your mind when you think of baby food but bear with me. We have pancakes every Saturday morning. At first I was a bit unsure about...
View ArticleBaby-friendly recipe: Homemade ice lollies
I try and be as careful as possible about what we feed Huxley without being over-controlling and stopping him from having anything nice to eat, because let’s be honest, I eat chocolate biscuits, so...
View ArticleBaby-friendly recipe: Cheese straws
These are a great finger food that can be easily transported in a lunch box and they don’t make too much mess when eaten. However, they’re not something I would make all the time as they do use rather...
View ArticleBaby-friendly recipe: Vegetable samosas
Samosas are an excellent way of sneaking lots of veggies into your kids diet and they transport brilliantly for a handy meal on-the-go. It’s also a great way of introducing some different flavours and...
View ArticleBaby-friendly recipes: Banana & oat cookies
I don’t claim to have invented this recipe, in fact I’ve seen loads of variations of it knocking around the internet recently but I can’t remember where I found this particular one. I think it was on...
View ArticleBanana cake recipe
Yes, I do mean banana cake, not banana bread. I’ve lost count of how many banana bread recipes I’ve tried over the years, only to be disappointed with the outcome of a dry, tasteless loaf. My mum has...
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