Recipes, Craft & Adventure Stories
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. I do love cooking, but there are busy days when, after dealing with work, family, housework and exercising, I just can't face spending ages standing in front of the cooker preparing a meal. This recipe and variations of it are my go-to recipe for such occasions. The ultimate comfort food when, at the end of a long day, the bra gets ditched (cue: heavy sigh of relief!), the pj's get put back on (does ...
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Brazil is a fusion of many different cultures. During the colonial period the original indigenous people met and mixed with migrants from Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Poland, Germany and Ukraine, to mention a few, and components of their food culture were ...
In collaboration with Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele. It's that time of year where the days are lengthening and brightening, but there's still that cool Spring breeze and occasional snow shower reminding us that winter isn't quite finished with us yet. Hot soups are still desired, ...
In collaboration with Harveys Furniture. Are you a hoarder of little bits of string, ribbon and buttons? I am. I've teamed up with Harveys Furniture to bring you my quick and easy storage solution - a custom sized small storage box to store crafting bits and bobs on my craft desk. The whole project can be completed in less than half an hour. You could even use these as gift boxes ...
A visit to some of Paris' 100 award-winning bistros. I have visited Paris twice in my life (so far). The first time was 18 months ago when, en route to London for a food blogging conference, I took a little detour to the city of lights. I rented a tiny studio apartment for five days and ...
A 5.5-day walk along England's 13th National Trail. Hadrian's Wall is the largest ancient Roman artefact in the world. Running for 80 Roman miles (75 modern miles) from Wallsend in Newcastle upon Tyne on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast it marked the northern edge ...
The Scottish city of Aberdeen, to me, has always been a place you pass through en route to more interesting holiday destinations, or the place you reach and heave a sigh a relief after you've been away adventuring because you are nearly home. You start recognising Shetland faces in the crowd as you ...
