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Someone told me, never cook for love. Food isn't love. It's fuel.…

How to make Italian buttercream

A cheese and pineapple echidna, chocolate cornflake cakes, popcorn, fresh fruit skewers, homemade lemonade. And cake. What a kid's birthday party is all about.

No bake mint chocolate cheesecake

I think it's been about 10 months since I last visited here. Life with two small people is needless to say, very busy. Jam packed really. It makes for a full day. But I wouldn't have my life right now any other way.

Easy upsidedown pineapple cake

Now that during the day we are three, me, a very little and helpless human and an independent, talkative, whirlwind of a toddler, activities to do with the later, to make her feel included and secure.

Almond tart with strawberries

I can't really keep it a secret any longer. If you visit here often you're going to notice sooner or later anyway, so I'd better come clean. For the last three months I have been living in a house with views.

Oven baked strawberry French toast

When it comes to strawberries, I'm pretty fussy. I grew up in an area where you could pick your own strawberries. In summer. Not all year round. They tasted like strawberries. Sweet, soft and juicy.

Home made crumpets in under an hour

I have fond childhood memories of weekend breakfast's consisting of hot toasted crumpets spread with so much butter and honey that the two would melt and run down through the little holes.

Gingerbread men

I got a bit carried away. My daughter's second birthday, a planned quiet family affair, somehow turned into a full blown high tea complete with grandma's best china.

Brown sugar meringue roulade

he prunes kept staring at me from the shelf in the pantry. I had bought a packet of the sticky, black fruit to make devils on horseback, and decanted the remainder neatly into a glass jar.

Strawberry homemade sprinkles

Thea is almost two. Two. The days and weeks went by slowly when she was first born, as we got to know each other and I became accustomed to my new routine as a mama.