At the start of last week, my 5 year-old son Ted and I began our homeschooling journey. While the pictures of my friend’s children in their new school uniforms go on Facebook I have been preparing to help Ted learn …
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Warm Winter Salad
In the summer I love to eat a salad, but during winter, when my stomach is colder due to the weather, I tend to find salads harder to digest. Winter is on its way and I have been looking for …
Slow Cooked Pork and Prune Tagine
While I was making this dish I wondered where the tagine originated and who would have eaten it. Thanks to my dear old dad subjecting me to cooking programmes when I lived at home, I have known for some time …
Slow Cooked Chickpea Tagine
There are many ingredients in a tagine that are beneficial to the body but it’s the spices that interest me the most. Recently I have been adding a lot more spice to our dishes and I’ve even been drinking cumin …
Slow Cooked Salmon and Olive Tagine
For me, a tagine is one of those meals that is easy to put together and it always includes ingredients that can be thrown into one dish. It’s a slow cooked meal and slow cooked food is so good for …
Oatmeal and Raisin Biscuits
One of my favourite breakfasts is a nice bowl of hot porridge but sadly it’s not one of my son’s. As oatmeal or porridge oats are full of health benefits I’m always trying to get my son, Ted to enjoy …
Pirate Ship Birthday Cake
Ted, my son, will be turning 5 this year and he decided that he would like a pirate theme birthday party. Suddenly Ted loves pirates and boats. I then convinced him to have a mermaids and pirates party to which …
Blackberry Vegan Cheesecake
Cheese plus cake equals cheesecake and we love a cheesecake in this house. Also, it’s that time of year again when the blackberry bush has started to grow over our back fence. So I decided to go into the back …
Nan’s Slow Cooked Rice Pudding
My Nan was not the greatest cook but she didn’t like to waste food either. I think that living through two world wars, and not having much money when she was little, helped her to be frugal. My Grandparents were …