Pistachio Biscotti
Pistachio Biscotti Earl Grey is my constant companion, but I can be lured away with aromatic coffee and a Pistachio Biscotti. (It doesn’t [...]
Benmore Botanical Garden
Benmore Botanical Garden Just a few miles down the road from us on the Cowal Peninsula and in the Loch Lomond and the [...]
Banana Cake
Banana Cake Like the Glorious Apple Muffin cakes, I believe you cannot put too many bananas into this cake. The original recipe required [...]
Aunty Vicky’s Cheesecake
Aunty Vicky’s Cheesecake As children, my brother and I would sit in the back of the car, in the front passenger seat our [...]
Chicken Confusion
Chicken Confusion As you may know, I moved the chickens down to the bottom garden, and although I initially enclosed them, they have [...]
LIVE Cinema Season
LIVE Cinema Season We live in a remote area, and unless we want to drive around the hills, we need to take a [...]
Roast Dinner
Roast Dinner Sundays at home always includes a roast dinner. Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots and beans or spinach. My husband’s [...]
Walnut and Fig Loaf
Walnut and Fig Loaf A couple of years ago I came across this recipe on the back of the Allinson Country Grain Flour [...]
The Chicken Move
The Chicken Move Our little chickens are free rangers and despite onerous warnings from Monty Donn they have not decimated the garden. Plants [...]
The Glorious Apple Muffin
The Glorious Apple Muffin Years ago I discovered an apple muffin recipe. It was not bad. The evolution of The Glorious Apple Muffin [...]