Lemon & Blueberry Breakfast Casserole

This breakfast bake is tasty, economical and uses up bread that would otherwise go in the bin. It's filling and perfect to make ahead. 600g stale french bread, cubed8 eggs250ml milk125g sugarZest of 1 1/2 lemons250g of blueberries In a bowl mix the cracked eggs, milk, sugar and lemon zest. Then add the bread and…

Bee birthday cake

Hello my lovelies, I wanted to share the birthday cake I made for Mr R's birthday. As I have shared before, we keep bees as of last Spring and Mr R is a little bee mad. We've expanded from one apiary to three since last year and we have had to put my foot down…

Home management binder free printables

Hello my lovelies, Doesn't it always seem that keeping the home and household management requires a lot of planning, forethought and consideration? Are you constantly making lists in notepads and on scraps of paper, and misplacing said lists only to have to write them out all over again? That was me until I created and…

Last day of school posters 2021 free download

Hello my lovelies, With the last day of the school year looming, and my daughter graduating from middle school I decided it was time to make the annual last day of school posters. Since I was doing one for us, I thought I would make some for all the middle school years as a freebie…

Frozen Mango & Berry Yoghurt Bark in collaboration with OralB

If your family is anything like mine, they will want some sort of dessert after dinner. I'll be honest, after I've cooked dinner and tidied the kitchen I'm tired and grumpy and not in the mood to prepare anything else because as far as I am concerned, the kitchen is closed! I invariably fall into…

Batch cook with me: Hidden veggie tomato sauce that kids love!

I have been making hidden veggie sauce of some kind for years. Some that my family loved and some that they really, really didn't... mostly because the colour and consistency of the sauce gave me away and they complained that I'd snuck in extra veggies. Which of course I had but with fussy eaters who…

How to eat an elephant

Hello my lovelies, Picture from We Are the Living.com It's been a rough road lately. The Black Dog reared his head, growled malevolently and promptly grew another two heads; all very Cerberus like and ominous. I've struggled off and on for most of my life with anxiety and depression. Often in the long dark Winter…

4 Make ahead freezer breakfasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYkr14a5Hfo Hello my lovelies, You know what it's like in the morning. You've got two kids running around half dressed, one is playing games on her phone, you're trying to get breakfast on the table and hubby is waiting non-too patiently so he can eat and get to work. That's a lot of pressure for…

Viral Tik Tok feta cheese pasta with a twist

This recipe is so easy to make and I have yet to find anyone who doesn't like it. You will need: 1/2 a ring of chorizo, sliced 1/2 punnet of baby mushrooms/mushrooms sliced 1 1/2 punnet of cherry tomatoes or a mix of cherry and baby plum tomatoes 4 garlic cloves, crushed 1 block of…

The Quintessentially British series: Taste Testing Twinings No. 22 Dark Caramel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWq1bLG9K4E