5 Tips for roasting your own coffee at home

April 4, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

How much do you spend buying your morning cup o’ joe every day? The costs soon start to add up and you may find your monthly caffeine budget is more than you expected! And worst part is that you aren’t always guaranteed to get a good brew every time. So why not switch up your […]

Pieday Friday ~ Warming root veg & squash soup

November 14, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

As you may have already spotted from my photos on Instagram, I grew a few squashes in my new veggie patch this year and that meant that I had plenty to play around with for Halloween. Now that the spooky season is over, I want to put my squashes to good use, so I’ve come […]

Pieday Friday ~ Chicken brick

February 14, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

If you cast your mind back to a couple of weeks ago, you may remember I mentioned that my husband brought home a chicken brick. He’d wanted one for a few years but due to the price we’ve never really been able to justify the cost of one however, he finally found one in a […]

Pieday Friday recipe – roast dinner pie

March 29, 2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

There’s nothing better than a great big Sunday roast, in my opinion. And Easter weekend is one of the times during the year that I can pretty much guarantee that we’ll be rustling up a roast dinner. We’ll probably have a lovely roast chicken (or even a small Turkey – hey, it’s practically another Christmas!), yummy […]

Pieday Friday Recipe – Butternut Squash & Stilton Soup

November 16, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

After my trip to the Maple Farm produce shop last weekend saw me bringing home a locally-grown butternut squash, I decided that the best way for me to cook the squash was to roast it and turn it into a tasty smooth soup. So I followed the farmer’s instructions to scrub the skin of the butternut […]