family life & travels
One of my all-time favourite cakes has to be for a lemon-drizzle cake. I remember my mum making up some from time to time, wrapping them up in foil and sending me back off to my University house with them. I was always popular with my housemates on those days. The tangy and sweet lemon
If you’re looking for a healthier alternative to a millionaire shortbread or a caramel slice, then here is a completely natural alternative. They are no bake (being raw and all), so they are quick and simple to make. Not to mention they are ridiculously tasty and incredibly moreish. But being whole foods, you can’t eat
Chocolate and avocados are a match made in heaven. Really! I find avocados kind of flavourless, but they are so ridiculously creamy. So they make the perfect addition to things like cakes and brownies. When you add mashed hass avocado to a recipe, it gives the brownies a rich flavour and fabulously moist texture. Brownies are
With Shrove Tuesday (or pancake day) around the corner, I just had to share this recipe that I have been experimenting with lately. I know pancake day is all about using up the fat and dry ingredients that they traditionally had in at home. But pancakes don’t have to be all bad for you, right? I
I think that at this time of year, it isn’t quite Christmas without some mince pies. I know they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but I am partial to a mince pie or two. But when you are cutting out refined sugar-free from your diet, having traditional mince pies isn’t too much of an option.
I think that most people know that I am trying to cut out refined sugar from my diet as much as possible. As a result, one of my main resources for recipes comes from the Deliciously Ella cookbooks. I like to cook from scratch the majority of the time and this helps massively. I also
In order to keep my PCOS symptoms at bay, I have been cutting out refined sugar from my diet. A lot of people think that it just means cutting out traditional desserts, pudding or bags of sweets. But if you check the label on a lot of savoury things, you can see that there is
After a little bit of an Indian summer last week, I think it might be safe to say that we are now fully into Autumn. Autumn always has me thinking of pumpkin spice, apple crumbles and plenty of lovely pies! So with a bit of a twist on some of those things, I have got
You might be a little confused by the title of this post. Aren’t teapigs a drink, I hear you ask?! They are tea bags, with a variety of caffeine free and herbal teas, as well as matcha tea. I have had teapigs fruit teas from time to time and think they are just lovely. They
