As summer comes to an end so will the lavender and mint I’ve been growing in the garden. For me, I will go back to using dried herbs to make warm cups of tea for winter. Before then I want …
Category: Lunch
Googie’s Kitchen presents Strawberry Ice Cream
Strawberries and Cream is a huge summer dessert in the UK. It was traditionally eaten at this time of year. That’s when strawberries used to grow in this country. Nowadays you can get strawberries all year round. Plus you can …
Mint and Lemon Cold Brew Tea
The one thing I love about our garden is the pots on the patio. For the past few years I have decided to grow mint in the pots. After I drop my son Ted to school in the morning I …
Googie’s Kitchen presents BBQ Crab Sweet Potato Cakes
The weather in the UK is very temperamental this year. That means we have been intending to use the BBQ but we just haven’t had the weather. Therefore I started to fuse meals together with BBQ sauce. The other day …
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Googie’s Kitchen presents Ginger, Orange and Soy Salmon Burger
Normally this salmon dish we tend to eat at Christmas but not as a burger. We eat this with rice or quinoa. It’s so tasty, I love it. The other day I was trying to decide what to eat for …
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Googie’s Kitchen presents Chocolate and Lime Cake
Limes and cake are not foods I would have put together. The other day I made a lemon cake so I decided to try a similar cake with limes. I suppose I wanted to try a Key Lime Pie Cake. …
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Sticky BBQ Roast Chicken
Since I started writing this blog I feel during the summer months I always have to explain the Great British weather system to the world. In most other countries they can eat outdoors and not have to worry that it …
Googie’s Kitchen presents Coconut Oil and Lemon Cake
Summer is finally here and the kids will be on school holidays soon enough. I hate to be pessimistic but knowing the UK it will probably rain. It normally always rains while the children are on there summer holidays. Therefore …
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Masala Roast Chicken with Minty Rice
Now I realised that Masala and mint aren’t normally a combination you would find together. When I eat a masala curry I often find I crave refreshing foods afterward. At the moment, we have 3 types of mint growing in …
Googie’s Kitchen presents Olive Oil and Orange Cake
Oranges and olives are grown in the same part of the world. Therefore it would make sense that these two ingredients would work well together in a cake. Before we discovered butter in cakes we would have use ingredients like …
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