Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
This super easy Halloween graveyard cake features an effortless egg-free chocolate sponge topped with chocolate frosting and plenty of sweets to resemble a spooky graveyard. Prep Time: 30 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes Difficulty: Easy A super easy egg-free Halloween cake recipe I absolutely love Halloween. It’s my favourite holiday of the year. The whole …
Perfect for a Halloween or a Harry Potter themed party, this black bread is easy to make and has a gorgeous rye and caraway flavour. Serve with a hearty stew (this makes a perfect bread bowl ‘cauldron’) or with a cheeseboard. “Can you make the bread black?” a client asked me recently after I suggested …
Tender pieces of succulent lamb with chunky vegetables and rich gravy swimming in a bread “cauldron”. A perfect Halloween lamb stew recipe for your witches and wizards! This easy recipe includes pressure cooker, stovetop and slow cooker instructions. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes Difficulty: Easy I am so excited to share this recipe …
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Regular readers will know that I have a tendency to play with my food. Growing up in Canada Halloween was a very big thing with the entire village getting involved. Houses would get decorated, we’d all go trick or treating and there would be a huge party at the …
Three layers of peanut butter and chocolate flavoured cake swirled together sandwiched with peanut butter frosting and topped with a milk chocolate ganache and a giant Halloween spider. I confess that when it comes to Halloween I really am still a child at heart. I grew up in rural Eastern Canada where Halloween, and all …
I have a confession to make: I absolutely love Halloween. I love Halloween a bit more than a grown adult should love Halloween.
Are you looking for a last-minute edible Christmas gift idea for the peanut butter fan in your life? These crunchy American-style SKIPPY® Peanut Butter granola clusters will be sure to impress, and this easy recipe only takes less than half an hour to make!
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Leftover Halloween pumpkin? Use up the whole pumpkin – guts, seeds and flesh – in this super easy creamy roasted pumpkin pasta sauce recipe with crispy fried sage and roasted chilli pumpkin seeds. Leftovers reheat really well too! Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Easy Roasted Pumpkin Pasta Sauce – trust me, …
With a delicious, rich, creamy peanut butter filling, a crunchy double chocolate biscuit base and a milk chocolate ganache topping with a white chocolate spider web, this peanut butter cheesecake will be sure to impress at your Halloween dessert table! Prep Time: 15 minutes Chilling Time: 6 hours Difficulty: Easy Halloween – my favourite time …
Albert Bartlett, the UK’s leading fresh potato supplier, is celebrating their 70th anniversary. To help celebrate, I’ve recreated a popular recipe from the 1970s, when the Indian takeaway in the UK began to surge in popularity: saag aloo, or spinach & potato curry. In collaboration with Albert Bartlett. About Albert Bartlett In 1948 Albert …
An indulgent Oreo freakshake recipe in collaboration with Oreo. All work and no play makes Elizabeth rather grumpy. I try my best to eat a healthy diet and to keep active, but do you know what? Sometimes, a little indulgent treat just has to be done. The 80:20 rule, right? 80% of the time I …
A delicious, spiced cake made with the humble swede (rutabaga). Did you know that the humble swede (aka. rutabaga, neep or Swedish turnip) can make a rather excellent flavoured cake? Think carrot cake, but with a more subtle vegetable flavour. Warming spices like ginger and nutmeg make it for the perfect Autumn bake, excellent with an …
In collaboration with Butterkist. Crunchy, chewy, sweet and salty – this really is the ultimate Friday night movie night sharing snack. It’s so quick and easy to make that even the kids can help! We’ve teamed up with Butterkist, the nation’s favourite popcorn brand, to jazz up a bag of their delicious Sweet Cinema Style …
aka how to salvage a failed attempt at making chocolate hazelnut spread. I like experimenting in my kitchen, I really do. Sometimes (quite a lot of the time, if I am to be honest!) it doesn’t quite go according to plan. I had a notion to make some homemade chocolate hazelnut spread recently. Ok, if …
Remember, remember the 5th of November. I may lament about the scaled down UK Halloween and lack of trick or treaters (we only had two this year – they left with loads of sweeties) compared to my rural Canadian upbringing, but do you know what? Bonfire night totally makes up for it. I hadn’t even …
Eat one… if you dare! I love Halloween. I mean, I seriously love Halloween. Unfortunately, Halloween in Shetland isn’t nearly on the same scale as the Halloween of my rural Canadian childhood, where houses would be decorated up inside and out (with some teenage twerp invariably blowing up our carefully carved jack o’lanterns with fire crackers). …
Nearly twenty years ago I sat at my grandmother’s dining room table in rural Eastern Canada scoffing slabs of home made pumpkin bread thick with butter and chatting about this, that and the other thing, as granddaughters are wont to do with their grandmothers.
Halloween was A Big Thing where I grew up in rural Canada. During the entire month of October village gardens and windows would be adorned with Halloween and Autumn themed decorations.
I’m a newcomer to the whole kale thing. Following on from a suggestion by a vegan friend who is in love with the stuff, I did, once, some time ago, pick up a bag of curly kale from a local supermarket and I baked it to make kale chips.
