Mom's Sugar Cookie Crisps. This is a really old, old cookie recipe for a slice and bake sugar cookie. It is one that my mother used to cook for us at Christmas when we were children.She got the recipe from a package of margarine. She kept the empty margarine packet inside her … | Continue reading
Imagine that you are born in one country and then spend an appreciable amount of time living in another country. You come to love the foods and traditions of your adopted home. It is only natural. I spent a third of my life living in the United Kingdom. I came to love and enj … | Continue reading
I was looking for a small cake to bake for teatime over the holidays. I wanted a cake that would be very similar to a fruit cake in texture and somewhat dense, like the cakes in Great Britain are. Sturdy cakes, not little puffs of air. Cakes that are very much at home on the te … | Continue reading
Lemon Cookie Cups. If the title along doesn't make your taste buds tingle, perhaps the description will! What you have here are two-bite-sized sugar cookie cups filled with a rich and tangy lush and sweet lemon curd.Are they tingling yet? I hope so because these cookie cups ar … | Continue reading
Here I am again with another Vintage Menu Madness Meal. I do so hope you enjoy me sharing these Vintage Recipes as much as I enjoy preparing them.I have always been interested in Vintage Cookbooks, recipes and cookery. I find the cooking of the past fascinating along with the … | Continue reading
This recipe I am sharing today for Easy Pepper Jelly Cheese Bites is something that I used to make fairly often as a dinner party nibble when I used to work at the Manor.They are like a savory thumbprint cookie, short and buttery, nice and cheesy and filled with hot red pepper … | Continue reading
Another Sunday, another Meals of the Week post. The day of the week where I share with you, my readers, all that I have enjoyed over the past week as my main meals of the day!Doing this each week helps to keep me motivated and helps to keep me eating properly most of the time. … | Continue reading
This simple vanilla cake is one of my favorite recipes to bake all year round. Its very nice to have on hand in the holiday season as well for those unexpected guests that might drop by, or just to serve as a simple family cake for afters on weeknight or at the weekend.It has n … | Continue reading
What better way to celebrate the first day of December than by sharing a fun, quick and easy breakfast recipe for the holidays! Easy Cinnamon Roll Christmas Trees!Not only are these tasty breakfast rolls quick and easy to make but they are also delicious and use only two basic … | Continue reading
What better way to celebrate the first day of December than by sharing a fun, quick and easy breakfast recipe for the holidays! Easy Cinnamon Roll Christmas Trees!Not only are these tasty breakfast rolls quick and easy to make but they are also delicious and use only two basic … | Continue reading
After taking last week off due to my son being here, I am back this week with another Vintage Menu to Share with you. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed planning and preparing it.I have always had a great love of Vintage Cookbooks and Vintage Recipes. I had quite a … | Continue reading
I am going to apologize upfront for my photos today. The weather outside is pants. It is raining sideways and is very dark. A very gloomy wet day. Not so good for photographing anything.I was wanting to bake a muffin to use up some mixed berries that I had picked up at the s … | Continue reading
When my sister and I were at the grocery store the other day I spied a package of leeks that was marked down by 50% as being "to use on the day." They actually looked not too bad. Pretty fresh actually. I knew that, with a bit of trimming, I would be able to put them to a go … | Continue reading
I can't believe it is Sunday again. These weeks really do come around quickly. It is hard to believe that we are already at the November and that there is only one month left in 2023! Here I am with another Meals of the Week post! This is the day that I like to share all of … | Continue reading
Its that most wonderful time of the year! The four weeks before Christmas when I can eat my weight in mince tarts and, in all truth, mincemeat anything. Have I told you how much I love mincemeat! I adore it and can't get enough of it at this time of the year.The mincemeat … | Continue reading
It was a dull and rainy, cold day out there today and I felt like baking a cake for myself. Nothing too complicated. Just a simple cake. Plain and yet tasty. Perfect for enjoying with a hot drink.I had had my eye on this Super Simple Golden Syrup Cake recipe on a blog called Sc … | Continue reading
I wasn't able to do a Vintage Menu Recipe post this week as one of my sons was here visiting. We had a lovely time together which was really nice. There was not really a lot of time for work. I was too busy playing!He left to go back to Prince Edward Island yesterday armed with … | Continue reading
One of my favorite flavors is that of ginger. I love it in savory dishes and I love it in baked goods, cakes, pies, breads, etc. I love ginger candies, especially Gin Gins. My friend Tina introduced me to them in the UK. They are great for travel or any time your tummy feels a … | Continue reading
One of my favorite vegetables has to be Brussel's Sprouts. I just love them. I think everyone in my family does except for my father. My sister feeds them to him anyways. He eats them because he knows they are good for him.I think Brussel's Sprouts get a really bad ra … | Continue reading
Well, another Sunday has rolled around and you know what that means!! A recap of all the meals I cooked or ate over the previous week. My Meals of the Week. I am really enjoying gathering these meals together and sharing them with you each week. It helps me to plan my meals fo … | Continue reading
One thing that the British do really well is Puddings. And by that I don't mean the milky concoction that North American's see as pudding. Pudding in the U.K. is a term lovingly used to describe dessert!And what a wonderful array of Puddings they have. Their desserts range fro … | Continue reading
As you all know I have a great love of vintage cookbooks, vintage recipes and food history. It has been a fascination of mine since I was a very young girl. I have a whole Big Blue Binder filled with old and vintage recipes that I have collected through the years and I am slowl … | Continue reading
I really have to apologize in advance for these photographs today. They are not very good. It is a very dull day today as I write this and I find on dull days the light for taking photographs is appalling. I hope this poor photography won't put you off from wanting to try this … | Continue reading
Thanksgiving is not a holiday which is celebrated in the U.K. except for North American Ex Pats who found themselves on that side of the pond. When I worked at the Manor it was for an American family and so every year there would be a huge Thanksgiving feast. We would have at … | Continue reading
Here I am again with another Vintage Menu Madness. I really enjoy cooking up these Vintage Menu's and recipes. Many of them remind me of my own childhood and I am sure they do that for you as well! I have always loved recipes and old cookbooks. This is a love that began when I … | Continue reading
I love homemade bread. Bread is actually one of my many weaknesses. I can remember coming home from school on the days that my mother made bread. You could smell the bread baking before you even opened the front door. You knew then that this was a very good day!Mom made beauti … | Continue reading
I can't believe it is Sunday again. These weeks are really rolling around quickly. Here I am with another Meals of the Week post! This is the day that I like to share all of my tasty main meals which I have enjoyed over the past seven days! I have been doing this since April. … | Continue reading
I follow a channel on YouTube called What's For Tea. Its run by a lady from Scotland named Cheryl. I just love listening to her accent. Every Saturday I tune in to see what she has picked up in her shopping. Its a bit of nostalgia for me from when I lived in the U.K.I will … | Continue reading
I had bought a pack of two rather largish chicken breasts earlier this week and I needed to use them up or freeze them. I decided to freeze one for later on and cook the other. I had seen a recipe which looked really delicious on a site called The Cozy Cook. Juicy and tender p … | Continue reading
Its a cold and blustery day out there today. Dark, overcast, with a bit of snow in the wind, but very damp. This is the perfect soup day. There is naught like a nice warm bowl of soup on those kinds of days.I knew I would be out doing lots of errands in the morning and so I dec … | Continue reading
I was in the mood for something light for my tea tonight. I had taken some ground pork out of the freezer and had in plenty of fresh fruit and veg and so I decided to make some delicious Pork Burgers and salad, inspired by some burgers I had seen on Hungry, Healthy, Happy.These … | Continue reading
Welcome to my Vintage Menu Madness post for this week. I love Vintage cookbooks and Vintage recipes and each week I endeavor to cook a full menu using vintage recipes that I have pulled from my books. Usually I will pull all of them from one book, but this week I shopped aro … | Continue reading
One thing I really love about the autumn months is the huge variety of Winter Squashes that are available at our local farm markets. There is no end to the varieties available and they are coming up with new ones every year! Hybrids no doubt!Last year we got to try Mashed Pota … | Continue reading
Here it is another Sunday and I am here sharing my Meals of the Week with you! I can't believe how quickly the weeks are passing! I always enjoy sharing my meals with you each week. As a single person living on my own, and as an older person on a limited budget, it can of … | Continue reading
I had a quantity of applesauce leftover from the other day and decided that I would bake an applesauce cake with it. I really do enjoy applesauce cake, but it is not something that I bake very often for myself using homemade applesauce. More often than not I will use canned apple … | Continue reading
Giant Tiger had packages of Maple Leaf Air Chilled Chicken Breasts on special this week for $7.99 rather than the usual $12.99. The maximum you could buy is two packages. That's a pretty good deal for quality chicken breasts.My sister and I each bought two packages. The chicke … | Continue reading
One thing which I really like doing is to make my own homemade bread. I am not that great of a bread maker when it comes to making bread by hand, but I have a bread machine that I love to use and I use t often.I made the nicest loaf of bread in my bread machine at the weekend. … | Continue reading
Here I am with another Vintage Menu Madness Post. Once a week I like to cook and share a full menu from one of my Vintage Cookbooks. This weeks menu is true Comfort Food and something which I remember my mother making us on occasion when I was growing up!The star of the menu i … | Continue reading
Another Sunday, another Meals of the week post. The post where I catch you up with all of the things which I have cooked for myself over the previous week. I may live on my own, but as you can see I eat very well. From my perspective I don't think there is any reason that … | Continue reading
I am really excited to share this lovely cake recipe with you today. It is totally delicious and incredibly impressive to look at. Its from a recipe clipping that I had in my big blue binder and I think it is a recipe that I got in the U.K. as the measurements were all in met … | Continue reading
I had a half a pound of ground beef leftover from the other day and decided to make a casserole with it. Actually I decided to make meatballs, but when I saw this tasty looking Meat Ball Casserole on Kitchen Sanctuary, I decided that it sounded so delicious I would make that ins … | Continue reading
One of my all time favorite cakes has to be carrot cake. It is always moist and delicious, nicely spiced and such a pleasure to eat. My mother loved carrot cake also as does my sister. We all adore it.Making a full carrot cake is not a viable option for me anymore. Not as a p … | Continue reading
One of my all time favorite cakes has to be carrot cake. It is always moist and delicious, nicely spiced and such a pleasure to eat. My mother loved carrot cake also as does my sister. We all adore it.Making a full carrot cake is not a viable option for me anymore. Not as a p … | Continue reading
We had our first frost of the season this morning. It is officially soup and stew season! Hip Hip Hooray! I love soups and stews, especially when they are as hearty as this Ground Beef and Barley Soup recipe is!I had taken some ground beef out of the freezer last night before I … | Continue reading
Here I am again with another Vintage Menu Madness, this one for the last week of October! If I had been on the ball I would have tried to cook a Halloween themed menu, but alas, I am not on the ball, so you are getting what you get! This week I wanted to use what I already ha … | Continue reading
One day last week my sister and I spent a good part of the day making our own sausages from scratch. My brother in law works for a food supplier and he has the opportunity to buy certain things in bulk at a discount. He had brought home 20 pounds of ground pork and we knew it w … | Continue reading
Well, here it is Sunday and here I am again with another Meals of the Week post! On Sundays I like to share all of the tastiness that I have enjoyed over the previous week. All of the main meals and recipes that I have enjoyed and cooked. I do share a lot of new recipes with … | Continue reading
After having cooked that lovely Roast Pork yesterday, I ended up, of course, with a quantity of leftovers. I am not one who likes waste, but neither to I want to be eating pork six days in a row, so I lopped off a piece to use today and then froze the rest, along with the gravy … | Continue reading