If you enjoy food, (who doesn’t) then the BBC Good Food Show for Summer 2016 is the place to be. With two major events in Birmingham and London I have a pair of tickets to be won by one lucky reader to a venue of their choice – see further down. To whet your appetite a little I’m going to …
Brown Sugared Vanilla Shortbread
Baking Mad is a recipe database website with endless pages of scrumptious looking things to make, all alongside mouthwatering pictures to tempt you into a spot of baking. It really is the place to go if you are looking for something to bake and I do like the way you can search with just a few key ingredients in mind. …
Shopping with Morrisons
Morrisons supermarket entered a new battle of the prices last weekend with over 2000 products being made lower. This was just in time for the May Bank Holiday and to get some feedback from families across the country, we were sent £80 of vouchers to try out the new lower priced Morrisons. I do shop at Morrisons for a medium …
Secret Ready Brek Cookies
We love baking and I remember many years ago making Secret Cookies with Ready Brek. I knew my children would love these so thought we’d give them a go as something to occupy Miss M during the summer on a rainy day. Mister B wanted to assist too and insisted on wearing Miss M’s Hello Kitty apron rather than his …
Richmond Mini Meatballs – Quick recipe ideas
Being a working mum with two young children, there is nothing more I like than a quick simple meal to cook for the children in the evening that may not be perfect but gives them a bit of nutrition and is something that they enjoy. We were sent some Richmond Mini Meatballs to try to come up with some quick …
Miss M’s Homemade Cheese Scones – Recipe
With the half term upon us and 5yr old Miss M’s love of cooking I promised her she could make me some cheese scones for lunch on one of the days I wasn’t working. She was so excited and couldn’t wait to get making and baking. She loves to cook things she can get her hands into so scones are …
Chocolate cupcakes with Miss M – easy recipe using drinking chocolate
Miss M loves baking so with an excess of eggs in the house I decided to let her make some cupcakes this weekend. We were also short on cocoa powder but having loads of drinking chocolate in the house we decided to substitute that in our recipe instead of cocoa powder. For 12 small cupcakes we used: 4oz self raising …
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with Discovery – Review & Recipe
Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican festival celebrated with singing, dancing, fireworks and most importantly fantastic food. With celebrations happening on 5th May each year across Mexico and parts of the US, Discovery foods kindly sent us a bag of Mexican culinary delights to try out and help us celebrate the occasion. With Mexican being one of my favourite cuisines …
Where’s my cupcake? game by Orchard Toys – Review
When we were sent Where’s my cupcake? game by Orchard Toys for izziwizzikids.co.uk to review, Miss M’s face lit up immediately. The girly pink box is covered in cupcakes – she couldn’t wait to play. The game consists of cupcake shaped cards in 10 different varieties and the object of the game is to match cupcake cards and end up with …
Easter Baking ideas for children
We were challenged by izziwizzikids.co.uk to come up with an Easter activity video for children and decided we would love to do some baking as this is one of Miss M’s favourite pastimes. I wanted to keep the recipes really simple so that Miss M could really feel like she was baking on her own without mummy interfering every 2 …