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A Mumble on Dinners and Batchcooking Tips
My Mammy is a great woman for dinners. She reared us all on good homecooked food and whatever the day’s events when we were small one thing was sure, there would always be a hot dinner in the evening,...
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The Bumbles of Rice Batchcooking Commandments
I’m not really a batchcooking fan, despite the fact that I do it a lot. I’ve blogged about it before and shared my methods here. It’s tiring, and I always make my plans too ambitious and think that I...
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Chorizo and Chickpea Stew
Today was wet, very, very wet, and colder than it has been for a long time. We had a great day out and came home hungry and tired, we needed comfort food time but quick comfort food. This stew was...
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Beef and Chorizo Stew
Stew is the food of winter days, coming home from school and a big plate of it for dinner, with pools of butter in the mash, I can still taste it. The key to a good stew I think is to cook it slowly...
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Very Easy Chicken and Broccoli Bake
I tested this recipe a few years ago for Mummy Pages (their version with my photograph is here) and it has become a firm favourite in our house. I was skeptical as I had made the full on one before...
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Sausage, Butterbean and Leek Casserole
Sausage, Butterbean and Leek Casserole What kids don’t love sausages? I found this recipe a couple of years ago when I had extra sausages in the fridge and fancied something interesting. Both boys...
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Cheesy Broccoli Bake (with added Pancetta)
You know the way the supermarkets do special deals on veg? Well, this led to there being an inordinate amount of broccoli in our house during the week, which in turn led me to googling recipes...
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Cowboy Stew
There are a few facts in life about feeding kids, and one that I’ve found to be very true is that they’ll eat nearly anything that contains sausages (or if they won’t eat it, at least they’ll pick the...
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Surprisingly Delicious Broccoli Soup
I know, to most, broccoli soup sounds more like a threat than a tasty tea, but it doesn’t have to be that way. This recipe is really opened me to the idea. It’s quick and easy and uses only three...
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Creamy Chicken and Broccoli Bake
I’ve blogged a recipe for Chicken and Broccoli Bake before, in fact it’s the most popular recipe on the blog, possibly due to the fact that the words “very easy” appear in its title. You can find...
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12 Tips to Make Weekday Dinners Easier
Weekdays are the hectic ones, with the whirlwind of school, work, commute and activities it can prove challenging to get your kids eating good healthy meals every day. Here are some of my tips to...
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Quick and Easy: The Best Tomato Sauce for Pasta that I’ve Ever Made...
I’ve a confession to make, I have an almost phobia about jars of tomato pasta sauce. Pesto is ok, and other package df food- chicken nuggets, packet soup, potato waffles but I cannot bear pasta sauce....
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The Cheat’s Guide to Filling the Freezer
We had a sad incident the week before last where a family member (who may just be the one who is typing this post) didn’t close the freezer properly and by the time it was discovered the icepops were...
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The Best Scones I’ve ever made
I wanted to eat scones, so we made scones. Simple. We’d never really made them much over the years, I hate the mess, but we decided during Lockdown 1 to test some recipes. This one which comes...
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