Easy real food recipes and preserves from the heart of the home
Let’s get healthy with this super simple spinach fritatta whch makes a great lunch with a salad on the side or as a light supper dish maybe with a bowl of soup first if you are feeling rather hungry in the evening. This is a recipe for one person so just double things up for more portions….
Pea and lentil soup is comfort food at it’s best, a hug in a mug if you choose to serve it casual style while curled up in front of the fire on a cold winter’s day. Soup is the perfect lunch for me at this time of year, warming and hearty and with a piece of crusty bread it keeps me going till supper time….
It’s the end of January and my month of Scottish recipes so I thought I’d end on a sweet note with this traditional Almond Flory, the perfect Scottish bake that suits the wintery weather and goes perfectly with a cup of tea in front of a roaring fire.
It is Burn’s Night in just two days. Now with all that whisky flowing you’d think there was no need to serve the golden juice as a dessert in this Whisky Granita, but why the hell not! You can never have too much of a good thing as my Mum used to say, so drink…
It’s Burn’s Night next week and everyone will be diving into the haggis, quaffing whisky and quoting Burns as best they can after sinking too much of the golden juice. I thought these steak toasts would make a nice wee change if you are having friends round for a few drinks and want to have…
Okay from the sublime to the rediculous, I did the healthy start to the year last week so now you have my Scottish Snowballs, the sweet stuff that ticks none of the healthy living boxes at all. Wait of course it does, it is healthy to enjoy yourself and have some fun and these traditional…
