Leaving London and downshifting to become a full-time parent and rural homemaker
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 [...]
I’ve started adding a note about what we ate in our house at the end of most posts partly because I’m always really inspired by whatever other people are making (thanks Libby for your great ‘Beefburgers with secret veggies stashed inside’ recipe this week - see above) but also as I do have a brain [...]
A lovely birthday present to me from Bealers this week was an hour spent on this blog installing a spam filter & ensuring that any email sent to the ‘becomingdomestic.co.uk’ domain now gets to me.
I was really shame-faced when he discovered at least 5 or so comments from lovely readers asking questions or just [...]
On Saturday my kids had lunch with the other two bridesmaids for Madeleine and GB’s wedding. We were invited to their Grandma’s house who gave them all fish fingers and chips.
The chips were homemade and were and the most delicious I’ve ever tasted. I asked Carol what how she made them as I realised I [...]
Funny how being away from my home for three days out of the last seven results in an enormous backlog of domestic duties such as washing, ironing, buying food, hoovering and the like. I caught up big time today after some really lovely special occasions meant I had to be out and about instead of [...]
I’m always very happy to try new recipes which are (a) easy (one pot cooking rocks!), (b) wheat-free (I’m not able to eat wheat), (c) cheap, (d) both Bealers and I both enjoy (harder than you’d expect).
This recipe in a Waitrose magazine (from the mag exchange box at the local library) jumped out at me [...]
We have recently been told by our landlord that we can now use the vegetable plot at the back of our garden which has been used for the past 85 years by his aunt. It is stocked full with carrots, leeks, potatoes and a whole load of beetroots.
We got a call from Janet, our gardener [...]
Our kids play with their playdough almost every day making little pretend dinners, worm families or faces on the table. They have a tub full of playdough tools which their 93 year old great grandmother bought for them.
1 Minute Playdough recipe:
Your will need:
1/2 cup of salt
1 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of cream of tartar (Cream [...]
We make bread using our breadmaker most evenings so that we have a nice fresh loaf in the morning and it is very cost effective as each 53p bag of flour makes about four loaves.
Because the bread is preseravtive-free we find that we often have chunky stale ends of loaves to use up.
One of the [...]
Thanks to my husband Darren we always seem to have a ready supply of delicious frozen portions of (organic) chicken stock.
I then use it for as the base for really tasty risottos and soups, he uses it for lovely clear noodle dishes with veg and tofu (made from his Wagamama cookbook), and my mum loves [...]