Mariealicerayner

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• Just Desserts . . . My Newest Cookbooklet

  

  I am happy to announce that I have finished my latest cookbooklet entitled Just Desserts! I think this is my best one yet. It is certainly one of my largest one... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• A Trio of Deliciously Cool Ice Cream Treats!

  

  We've been suffering with a "Heat Wave" here in the UK over the past week. The temperatures have been downright almost unbearable. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Super Healthy Corn and Black Bean Pizza

  

  (source) Super Healthy Corn and Black Bean Pizza Everybody wants to eat healthy, and even websites that aren't related to food will try to give you advice... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Crispy Chicken Sandwiches

  

  Here we are with day three of the Crispy Chicken recipes. This is the second recipe using the leftovers from that delicious Crispy Chicken with Sweet and Sour... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Crispy Chicken Salad with a Blueberry Vinaigrette

  

  You remember those delicious crispy fried chicken breasts I showed you yesterday? Well I hope you cooked extras because today I am going to show you something... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Crispy Chicken with Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

  

  We're having a heat wave. Normally I would like to be cooking on the barbeque, but the Toddster doesn't really "get" barbequing, and I am afraid of the barbeque. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Superfoods Salad

  

  I contend that there is no such thing as a boring salad. When we were first married Todd would moan when I would say that I had made a salad. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Bumbleberry Cobbler

  

  WE do love a good cobbler in this house. We grow all of our own soft fruits in our back garden . . . black currants, strawberries, raspberries, tayberries,... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Lunettes . . .

  

  The rain is bucketing down today. It's not a great day to go out and do much of anything. How fitting for the first day of the summer school holidays. I hope... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Thick and Chewy Triple Chocolate Chunker Bars

  

  After baking these delicious bars today I may never bake regular chocolate chip cookies ever again. Seriously. These are fabulous! I was really craving a... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Raspberry and Marshmallow Friands . . . and Orange Julius Drinks

  

  I had in my mind to make Friands today, but not just any friands . . . raspberry and marshmallow friands. I went to the shops and picked up some lovely fresh... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Lemon French Toast with Strawberries and Maple Syrup

  

  There are some days when you just don't feel much like cooking. We all get them. Even I have those days once in a while. Those are the days when I just can't... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Add a Touch of Greece to Your Summer Menu with Gaea

  

  When I was 9 years old I saw the Disney film, The Moonspinners, starring Haley Mills. It instilled in me a hunger to visit Greece, which has remained a dream fo... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• A Simple Caprese Salad

  

  I saw a photograph of this in one of my Donna Hay books the other day and it just spoke to me. She always presents her food so beautifully and it's usually... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Healthy Spices: Flavours for Your Health

  

  Do you buy your herbs and spices online? If you do, when you buy spices do you think about their nutritional qualities? Some have great health benefits; you... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• A Really Good Bolognese Sauce

  

  When I was a child we ate only very basic foods. There really wasn't much out of the simple or the ordinary on our dinner table. Meat and potatoes . . .... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Jumbo Cappuccino and White Chocolate Muffins . . . .

  

  This is a recipe I have been eyeballing in a baking book for a while now. The book is called Annie Bell's Baking Bible. It's a really lovely book. Everything I... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Black Forest Cookies and Cream Sundaes . . .

  

  What do you get when you cross a beautiful gift basket with a bit of cook's ingenuity and acumen? Well, I'll show you what you get. Hang on to your hats!... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• New Squeezy Vimto Water Enhancers . . .

  

  Vimto Soft Drinks has come up with some new Vimto concentrated Squeezy water enhancers just in time for the summer hols. Containing no added sugar,with natural... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• How to Build the Perfect Turkey Sub . . .

  

  I don't know why I didn't think of this before. Making my own Turkey Subs. I love the Turkey Subs at Sub Way back home and every time I go home I treat myself t... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES