Live For Food

Today I’ve tried out a fruity pudding.  A lot of the supermarkets have blueberries on offer at the moment so I thought it would be a good one to try. Ingredients: 50g caster sugar 50g soft butter, plus extra for greasing 1 large egg 50g self-raising flour 50g dessicated coconut, plus 2 tsp 50g creme […]

I always keep an eye open for new apple recipes.  I get apples in my vegetable box almost every week, but I’m not really that keen on them raw.  I tend to do a lot of stewed apple, and also some apple crumbles, to use them up.  I came across the following recipe for apple […]

I frequently attend buffet meals.  Most of these are at church.  If there is ever a function, or a lunch, or a social occasion at church you can guarantee that there will be a buffet lunch or supper.  The trend these days seems to be for a “bring and share” meal to be prepared, where […]

Following on from my last post of eggs, I have a couple of ideas for using up eggs, but this time in the cakes and desserts category.  The first one is very straightforward, and uses up three eggs at a time: Victoria Sandwich This is the only cake that I can cook without a recipe, […]

This year in the UK we seem to have had a bumper plum harvest. Everywhere I go, work, church, friends’ houses, I am being bombarded with bags of plums to take home. This is a picture of my friend Gill’s plum tree in full fruit! So I will admit I haven’t been terribly enterprising with […]