Family Food and Travel
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…
An easy No Bake Rocky Road Cheesecake Recipe – A chocolate cheesecake packed with marshmallows and topped with melted chocolate. No bake buttery biscuit base with cream cheese and whipped cream topping. A delicious dessert cake for any special occasion. Also easily adaptable to be Gluten Free. This post was sponsored by Waitrose to show…
A simple and delicious Chicken Fajita Pasta Bake Recipe. Loaded with all of your favourite fajita flavours in a pasta bake. Tasty chicken, with delicious peppers and creamy cheesy pasta. A delicious family friendly midweek meal. This post was sponsored by Waitrose to show you some of my favourite items from the essentials Waitrose range….
Colcannon Recipe – Delicious, light and fluffy mashed potatoes with spring onions (scallions), cabbage, cream, plenty of butter and seasoning. Topped with chives, this Irish potato recipe is the ultimate comfort food side dish. Seriously though, is there anything better than a bowl of buttery, creamy mashed potatoes on a cold day? There’s something so…
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…
Do you remember that moment of bringing your baby home for the first time in the car? It’s such a clear memory for me. We were suddenly allowed out of the hospital and in charge of two actual BABIES. It was a new responsibility and a total joy like no other. These days our car…
