Gin and Coffee Together? Try This Gin Coffee Cocktail!
Ever tried gin and coffee together? This gin coffee cocktail is called a Turbo Gin and Tonic and is a real twist on an old favourite.
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How to Make Pasta & Meatballs with Puttanesca Sauce
My recipe for homemade Italian Pasta Puttanesca with meatballs. The delicious Puttanesca sauce is so easy to make & is a real crowd pleaser!
Make an Easy DIY Gingerbread House Christmas Gift Bag
Want to make an easy DIY gingerbread house Christmas gift bag? It’s such a simple & effective make, to level up your Christmas wrapping.
Quick Lentil and Bacon Soup {Just 15 Minutes in a Pressure Cooker}
What quick and nutritious meals can you rustle up in just 15 minutes — from scratch? Scrambled eggs? Cheese on toast? How about a delicious lentil and bacon soup recipe? Ordinarily, lentils take an age to cook, but with the help of our trusty pressure cooker, we can whip up the most amazing, thick, and delicious lentil soup in just 15 …
Make a DIY Gingerbread Garland for Christmas
How d’you fancy making a gingerbread garland to deck the halls this Christmas? This gorgeous edible decoration not only looks good but will fill your home with the festive scent of gingerbread. And it tastes great, too!
Mini Hasselback Potatoes with Garlic and Chilli {Slimming World Friendly!}
Have you ever had Mini Hasselback Potatoes with Garlic and Chilli? They’re the most delicious accompaniment to a meal—and the perfect comfort food too. The Origins of Hasselback Potatoes Hasselback potatoes are named after the restaurant where they were first created, Hasselbacken, in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a delicious and visually appealing way to prepare …
Sticky Glazed Chicken Drumsticks Recipe
My favourite kind of food is the sort that you eat with your fingers and this recipe for sticky glazed chicken drumsticks is delicious!!
A Recipe for Homemade Mini Milk Ice Lollies
Looking for a recipe for homemade Mini Milk Ice Lollies? This variation is so like the real thing — but the great thing is, you can make them as big as you like! There is not a great deal nicer in life than an ice lolly on a hot day is there? When I was …
Make a Cardboard Dove DIY Christmas Garland (Plus Free Dove PNG File!)
I love creating seasonal garlands. Edible biscuit garlands at Christmas; paper Halloween banners or cute Easter bunny garlands. They’re always fun to make; plus they help make the house look seasonally festive too. My new creation makes use of all the delivery boxes that keep arriving at this time of year! It’s a cardboard dove …
How to Make Festive DIY Paper Fan Decorations For The Holiday Season
Looking for a really easy, crafty make for the holiday season? I’ve been making wallpaper circle fans for many years now. I first wrote about them in 2016 and they were made out of pretty wallpaper; perfect for a summer party. But DIY paper fan decorations are also fantastic for Christmas too! These round paper …
My Favourite Spiced Pumpkin Soup Recipe
Looking for the very best spiced pumpkin soup recipe? This simple spicy pumpkin soup is my go-to every year. It’s simple and delicious and the perfect way of using up those Halloween pumpkins! We’d bought two for All Hallows’ Eve, from the pumpkin farm, and only carved one of them, so the other was patiently waiting for …
Simple Tutorial: How To Make Pom Poms with a Pom Pom Maker
Ever wanted to know how to make pom poms the easy way? I once wrote about our Camp Bestival adventure where we all spent a brilliant afternoon in a pom-pom making workshop. It was such a different method to the one I used when I was a child. I remember spending ages cutting out my templates (usually from …
How to make a DIY pom pom blanket
Remember when I learned how to make pom poms at Camp Bestival? The boys and I went a bit pom pom crazy and made TONS of them in the weeks that followed! I trimmed our laundry basket with some of the larger pom poms. But with all the tiny, colourful ones we made, I created …
How to make a Grasshopper Costume
Ever wondered how to make a grasshopper costume? Since my little twins started nursery and school, I’ve had various demands for fancy dress outfits — for plays or theme days. A new school term is underway and I’m wondering what weird and wonderful costume requests will be coming my way over the next few months. …
How to Make a Silk Flower Wreath | Tutorial
The internet is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Want to learn to make a curry? Ask Google. Want to know how to get wax crayon off a table? Google it. Want to know how to make a silk flower wreath? Hopefully your search has sent you over to my blog! I’ve seen so many beautiful …
How to Make | Christmas Snow Globe Cookies
Oh how I love this time of year. It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of autumn and winter but December is most definitely excused. I LOVE the festive season; the run up to Christmas is magical. Preparation for the big day seems to consume my every waking minute and I love the way …
Learning how to make pom poms at Camp Bestival
When I talk to people about our festival antics, some people occasionally express surprise about the kind of things we get up to when we’re there. I guess, festivals come in all shapes and sizes, and if you’ve only ever witnessed Glastonbury on the TV, you could be lulled into thinking that all festivals resemble …
A Recipe for Homemade Ginger and Rhubarb Gin
Disclosure: This post for Homemade Ginger and Rhubarb Gin contains affiliate links of products that I’ve bought myself. Purchasing via an affiliate link doesn’t cost you any extra but I may receive a few pence if you click on a link and buy something. Fancy making a delicious homemade ginger and rhubarb gin? Then read …
Spring Florals and Edible Flower Biscuits
There has been so much chat on my social media feeds about last week’s mini heatwave. We Brits are obsessed with the weather aren’t we? It’s either too wet, hot, cold, too snowy or windy. We don’t ever seem to agree on what’s the perfect temperature. I think — a bit like queuing — it’s …
Our Best Eggless Pancake Recipe EVER {With a Video}
When you have a child with an egg allergy, you spend a lot of time googling things like — ‘How to make egg free Royal Icing‘ and ‘What is the best eggless pancake recipe EVER?’. And so on. It’s all a bit daunting to begin with but eventually you realise that there are some fabulous …
How to make the perfect Mojito | Dreaming of cocktails & summer
Want to know how to make the perfect Mojito? Read on! I was dreaming of cocktails and summer yesterday; winter has us well and truly in its grips. It snowed here yesterday morning! Funnily enough, it snowed in November in the very first year we moved into this village too. Proper snow. Big fat flakes …
Tasty Crushed New Potato Salad with Créme Fraîche, Lemon and Dill
Mid July. What kind of images does that conjure up to you? Sweltering days and balmy nights. Paddling pool in the garden and alfresco dining. Barbecues and cocktails. Or grey skies and thunderclouds? Over the weekend the sun did a bunk and it didn’t resemble summer in the slightest. I had one of my oldest …
Planning a Halloween Party
Well, summer is definitely over for another year, which gives me the perfect excuse to begin planning a Halloween party. I’ve desperately been trying to hold on to the warmer days — refusing to wear proper shoes in favour of my flip flops — but, try as I might, autumn is upon us once more. …
Wallpaper #1 | How To Make A Paper Circle Fan Decoration
Have you ever wanted to know how to make a paper circle fan decoration? They’re super easy to make and look fabulous! Here’s a quick tutorial showing how I make mine. Making a House a Home When my sister and her husband sold their house recently they couldn’t find anywhere they wanted to buy. So — as a stop …
How to make a rocketpack — Camp Bestival 2016
So I’ve mentioned that next month we’re off to Camp Bestival. Now any Bestival/Camp Bestival aficionado will tell you that one of the best things about the festivals each year is the hotly anticipated theme and this year it’s Outer Space. Some revellers take this very seriously indeed. Others give a little nod to it (and will don a …
How to Make a Simple DIY Advent Calendar
How do you fancy making a simple DIY advent calendar? Shop bought advent calendars can be so costly; I thought it might be nice to make one from scratch that can be bought out every year. When I was a child, being bought an advent calendar every December was a real highlight of my year. …
The Jubarb {a gin and rhubarb cocktail}
What could be better, in the heat of midsummer than a gin and rhubarb cocktail? Recently we made some homemade cordial with the rhubarb that we grow in our veggie patch. It’s a lovely alternative to pies and crumbles and a fabulous way of using the endless supply of rosy tinged stalks, that we seem to …
How To Make Homemade Rhubarb Cordial
Have you ever wondered how to make homemade rhubarb cordial? Each year, we’re treated to an abundance of rosy tinged rhubarb; cut some stalks and they’re quickly replaced with more. Which sometimes means that we have a glut of it — and there’s only so much rhubarb crumble that one girl can eat! We recently bought some …
