Chicken Chasseur and Rice

Chicken Chasseur and Rice??? What is this abomination !?! I hear you cry… Weeeell its one pot, Tanny will eat it and it has fed him for 3 days and one of our kids and one of the grandkids. I figure that is a win. Sure normally I would serve chicken Chasseur with vegetables but…

Beef, Booze and Buttons

When hubby let me know that he hadn’t been paid his overtime this month my heart sank. His overtime is the equivelant of half his flat salary and it is what we live on after paying the bills. However I always have a plan and insteead of staying in a space of “wtf do we…

“Jarlic”

Rounding up Garlic Day had to be using what we had to make our very own easy to use “Jarlic”. So named by my kids when they were little to differentiate between fresh and prepared garlic. Basically it’s minced garlic in oil like you buy in the shops only this we grew and produced ourselves…

“Cawl” – Nanna Lucy’s Recipes

I have to admit making this one I was worried about. For such an incredibly basic and simple recipe there are depths and layers of flavour that if you mess it up, there’s no coming back. This was the kind of recipe we had in the Spring. Fresh Spring Welsh Lamb with the leftover root…

Aunty Susan’s – Supper Pie

This month I was asked to be in the YouTube collaboration “The Pies of March” #thepiesofmarch2023. A fantastic collaboration which gave me the opportunity to try a recipe I wanted to try making for years that I remember from my childhood. My Aunty Susan used to make very traditional British food. This recipe is one…

Apple Starter for Sourdough Bread

I know there are all kinds of fancy names that bloggers and food writers are using right now for this process but at the end of the day I prefer to know exactly what it is without the high faluting language. Apple Starter for Sourdough Bread pretty much says all you need to know, except…