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Archive for July 2018

Mini pizza tarts

I was looking for a savoury option for a picnic and decided to play around with pizza flavours instead of trying mini quiches. They were yum and can be eaten hot or cold 🙂 Ingredients 4oz plain flour 2oz hard marge or butter 1 egg splash of water homemade or shop bought tomato pizza sauce […]

To Snare A Witch by Jay Raven

  I loved this book. My dissertation at university was on the subject of witchcraft in Elizabethan England. This book is set during the reign of Charles I (so about 50 years after the era I studied). This book has been well researched and the description of the process of locating witches was both accurate […]

Mocha tarts

Last week for Anya’s sports day I needed some picnic food that I could take with me so decided to experiment! I tweaked my chocolate ganache recipe to include coffee and created these mocha tarts. The coffee taste is quite subtle so the kids also enjoyed them. Ingredients 4oz plain flour 2oz hard marge or […]

Sweet Love at Bayside and Sweet Passions at Bayside

Sweet Love at Bayside Emery and Dean have been building a firm friendship over the past few months. Emery decides to leave her home and move to Bayside to be closer to her best friend Desiree. I like the introduction of the new characters whilst still maintaining the same feel as the Seaside books. I enjoyed […]

Eggy rice muffins

OK hands up who ALWAYS cooks too much rice. Me too! 🙂 Ingredients 200g cooked rice 75g veg (I used some onion, peas and carrots) 100g grated cheese (I used a mix of cheddar and red leicester but you could try mozzarella and parmesan too)) 2 eggs Method Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius and […]