Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
I’ve just realised that I’ve stumbled upon a new improved way of feeding my children which has been mighty successful.
Instead of cooking a classic dinner such as spaghetti bolgnaise, fish fingers and mash etc with vegetables and then battling with them to eat up and finally, defeated hoovering most of the left overs up myself. [...]
At the beginning of this year I finally self-diagnosed myself as having Coeliac Disease after 20 years of tummy troubles and knowing that something in my diet must be causing the agonising distended stomach and cramps. It took a long time of gradual realisation, piecing together facts about Coeliac Disease before I finally took the [...]
We made homemade potato crisps which were very nice and tasty - they tasted almost exactly the same as a shop bough packet of kettle chips. We flavoured them with salt and pepper. It was quite a lot of effort for a smallish plate which was devoured in seconds but at least the kids now [...]
My son really disliked peas. The way to get him to finally after years of cajoling him try some and announce ‘Yum!’ was staightforward but long winded in the extreme. I had to sow peas, grow peas, stake the peas, have the children pick the peas, shell the peas and only then did he feel [...]
When our friend asked if there was anything needing doing in the kitchen the other day I told her no because I only had to make a bit of coleslaw before we were ready to eat two minutes later.
When she asked me how to make it I made a note to myself to add the [...]
(This is blatantly pilfered from my husband’s blog but luckily we exchanged vows in 2001 stating what’s mine is his and vice versa)
Ozficici Salsa
June 24th, 2007 by Bealers
For a while now I’ve been seeking the Holy Grail in salsas with my efforts to-date not really cutting it in both texture and subtlety stakes (though [...]
Large piece of steak cut into strips and marinated for a couple of hours in the fridge in natural yoghurt, lime juice (from a bottle hanging around in the fridge), Encona hot chilli sauce
Boiled rice
Tortilla wraps
Chunky salad of orange pepper, cucumber, spinach leaves, ripe avocado
Natural greek style yoghurt
Salsa made from:
Tomatoes
Onions or Spring onions
Balasamic vinegar chilli [...]
Thank you Good Housekeeping Institute and the tomes of wisdom I have gleaned from you over the years but this is by far the most useful nugget you have published since I’ve been reading your monthly magazine as getting boiled eggs to come out exactly as everyone wanted was a mysterious black art I’d never [...]
I’ve got two more meals left this week before my in-laws come to visit and babysit for us (yay!) while we go to see Leyton Orient play football in Cheltenham and spend an evening having a meal out together somewhere but have bought some pork chops to make mustard/cider pork chops and some stewing beef [...]
Beefburgers with secret veggies stashed inside (from Libby who I suspect became domestic quite a while ago and could probably run seminars to the rest of us attempting to become domestic one distant day)
I use organic beef mince..then throw in a naughty packet of frozen steamed veg which I’ve blended a bit..then add an egg [...]