Tag: cookery

It's Christmas and we're at home this year, which means I've been spending a lot of time in the kitchen! This post combines Christmas planning thoughts, a craft project, and some recipes we enjoyed this year - and delivers a surprise to anyone subscribed to the main blog feed expecting only technical content.

I have recently made this "bean something" dish a few times, for vegetarian fajitas, to eat with rice, and also as filling for baked potatoes. Its yummy and even better I can feed it to a friend with a requirement for meat-free, dairy-free and gluten-free food! Here's the recipe:

There's a birthday in my household this week so I have been making a surprise cake, which I do every year. Apart from the year where all our stuff was in storage and I only had fairy cake tins, where I made surprise fairy cakes instead! This year I went …