home made baked beans

  Real Foods very kindly sent me a jar of molasses to review. We do buy various things from them online, but haven’t bought this before, so we were very pleased to get to try it. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it, to be honest, but I had a rummage round the…

a mini slow cooker

We do a lot of batch cooking for the freezer, as regular readers will know. I have a big (6.5l, I think it is) slow cooker, which is great for cooking huge amounts, but useless for a meal for both of us. Fuel prices are becoming ever more ridiculous, so for ages I’ve been thinking…

some meatballs

Buried in the back of the freezer, I found 2lbs of sausagemeat, clearly left over from the festering season, and never used. I’m diabetic, and shouldn’t really eat sausage rolls, so I poddled up to the butcher and bought 300g of lean minced beef, and on Sunday we had a meatball cook-in. Italian: Pete manfully…

a spicy plum crumble

A bit like bananas are in this house, are plums. In that I buy them, but don’t eat them. So there were eight going a bit scrotal in a bowl, and a couple of (very) wizened Bramleys in the veg drawer in the fridge. It was a cold day, Rainageddon was forecast (though didn’t arrived,…

banana and *chocolate* cakes

Neither Pete nor I are especially fond of bananas in their raw form, but I bought some for the GrandToad’s visit a few days ago. He didn’t really want them either, so there were five bananas going brown in the fruit bowl. Not a problem – banana cake! I use a basic recipe refined over…

gender correct yogurt

Yes, that’s right. You read it right. What the hell is the world coming to when a company manufactures, and retailers stock and sell, yogurt products specifically targeted to boys (football) and girls (pink. Of course). GAH.