Peanut and Chocolate Tart
This dessert goes down very well with the family, but it’s really a special occassion thing as it must be very fattening. My lot are all at the stage where they are only going to grow out the way as...
View ArticleChocolate Pudding
chocolate up and over pudding Everybody loves chocolate pudding, especially in the colder weather which I can feel coming already and this is a great recipe for those times when the whole family is...
View ArticleGirdlebuster Pie
As I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to be making a Girdlebuster Pie for my husband’s birthday cake, I thought you might like to see how it turned out. Girdlebuster Pie I would be the...
View ArticleSparkling Rosé Jellies
Rose jellies We couldn’t stand the thought of a heavy pudding on Christmas day, especially since we had had the Girdlebuster Pie for my husband’s birthday the day before. Sparkling rose jellies seemed...
View ArticleMagimix Le Glacier Ice Cream Maker
We were lucky enough to be given vouchers for Lakeland Plastics at Christmas. As the weather has been so bad, we haven’t managed to use them until this week. So we headed north to Perth and had a mooch...
View ArticleChocolate, Banana And Toffee Pie
This one went down well with the whole family. It will serve 6. For the base: 65 g/2½ oz unsalted butter 250 g/9 oz chocolate digestive biscuits For the filling: 397 g/13 oz tin of condensed milk 150...
View ArticleCoffee Cream
This pudding isn’t exactly exciting looking, it is after all beige and it’s what granny would have called “a shape”. I adapted this recipe from a Margeurite Patten one which was actually in the...
View ArticleJust Some Ice-Cream
We all went out for a meal on Friday night to celebrate Laura’s birthday, well it was really a joint celebration as my birthday comes a wee bit later on in the month. We all enjoyed the meal that we...
View ArticleBakewell, Derbyshire and Bakewell Pudding
Bakewell is another place which we visited on our recent trip to Derbyshire. The river Wye runs through the middle of it and as you can see from the above photo it’s full of geese, ducks and swans. I...
View ArticleChristmas Day
I’m a day late with this post but I don’t seem to have had much time to myself. As you can see we’ve had the family home for Christmas, our two boys and Laura, Gordon’s girlfriend who is as much like a...
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