Family Food and Travel
Deliciously simple and healthy vegetarian Spiced Honey Aubergine recipe with Cous Cous from Waitrose Beautifully Simple recipe ideas. This post was sponsored by Waitrose to show you their Beautifully Simple recipe cards range. Thanks as always for your support. Hooray, it feels like summer is finally here this week. Is there anything better than waking…
The perfect cocktail for gin lovers, the classic Gin Fizz Cocktail is light and refreshing. Full of bittersweet lemon taste, this version does not contain any egg whites. This is also an ideal alternative to a gin and tonic for any tonic haters. This post was sponsored by Craft Gin Club who asked me to…
Deliciously simple and healthy vegan Cauliflower Cous Cous with Artichokes and Capers from Waitrose Beautifully Simple recipe ideas. This post was sponsored by Waitrose to show you their Beautifully Simple recipe cards range. Thanks as always for your support. As you’ll know if you’ve read the blog for a while, I think about food a…
These Easy Baked Chicken Fajitas are a simple, quick family dinner. Chicken breast pieces, coated in fajita seasoning, with peppers and onions oven cooked to perfection. Serve with tortillas, sour cream or yoghurt, grated cheese and avocado for a complete meal. Would you think less of me if I told you that my mouth was actually watering…
The easiest every Gin and Tonic Cake. These Gin and Tonic Cake Bars are super simple and delicious. An easy bake packed with gin and tonic flavour, with zesty lime and a crunchy glaze. Based on a lemon drizzle cake style recipe, with gin infused syrup and topped with white chocolate. A must bake for G&T…
This Slow Cooker Beef Curry is a simple, prepare ahead midweek meal. A tasty ‘fakeaway’ curry, the slow cooked beef pieces are cooked in a tomato sauce. This crock pot beef stew style curry is also easily adaptable to the Slimming World or Weight Watchers plan as it’s light, healthy and low fat. Oh hi new…
Slow Cooker Pea and Ham Soup – Made with a whole gammon joint cooked in the slow cooker, frozen fresh peas and mint for a delicious, light and healthy soup. This simple soup is so easy and warming. Add crusty bread for a really tasty meal. Oh my goodness, the snow here has been something…
5 Brilliant things to do in Pembrokeshire with Children – Our favourite things to do, see and eat in and around Tenby in Wales with kids. Beautiful Welsh beaches and wonderful South Wales food. A few weeks ago, the lovely people at Coastal Cottages invited us to Pembrokeshire, to stay in one of their properties and see…
I’ve always been a bit intimidated by Paris. There, I said it. It’s a city that I just didn’t know where to start with. It’s busy being iconically beautiful, full of Parisienne people being all effortlessly chic, speaking a language that slipped through my fingers after my school years. Or perhaps I was put off…
A couple of weeks ago, G&H went on a school trip to ThinkTank in Birmingham. First school trip, so much excitement. When they got home, I obviously got zero details. What is this 5 year old tactic of disclosing nothing? They’d make excellent spies. Anyway, the one thing they did say, was that they were…
It’s been a long, tiring run up to the Easter holidays here. Emotional, short tempered and just in need of a change of pace – and that’s just me (ha!) Really though, their first half a year of big school is definitely taking it’s toll. They love it, for which I’m super grateful, but up…
After our snowy adventures in Tignes with Mark Warner, I thought I’d give you the full low down on our trip in case any is thinking of a family ski holiday next season (or even squeezing one in next week!). So, here’s all the details of Mark Warner in Tignes. You can watch what we got…
Last month we enjoyed a week away in France, with Mark Warner. A week of fresh air, blue skies, snowmen and cheese, all the cheese. Our ski holidays over the years have definitely had mixed levels of success. That first trip of mine 10 years ago, where I determinedly trudged to ski school every day, desperate…
