Chocolate Teatime Tiffin – Make this Chocolate Teatime Tiffin for a teatime treat, or for elevenses, and the school (or office) lunch box

A Delecatable No-Bake Chocolate Treat

Who doesn’t love an easy to make “no bake” sweet recipe, and today’s recipe for Chocolate Teatime Tiffin is exactly that.

Using leftover cake, biscuits, dried fruit, butter, golden syrup and chocolate, it’s a “melt and set” recipe that is quite simply delectable.

Continue reading Chocolate Teatime Tiffin at Lavender and Lovage.

Mincemeat Buns (Cable Cakes) These lovely little buns (cakes) are easy to make and are fruity, but also light and airy.

Continue reading Mincemeat Buns (Cable Cakes) at Lavender and Lovage.

Old-Fashioned Jam Tarts - Jam tarts are a quintessential British teatime treat - little crispy short crust pastry rounds filled with jam.

Continue reading Old-Fashioned Jam Tarts at Lavender and Lovage.

Old School Raspberry Buns – Today’s recipe is a real blast from the past. These were the FIRST things I made in a cookery lesson at school.

An Old School Cookery Class Recipe

Today’s recipe for Old School Raspberry Buns is a real blast from the past. These were the FIRST things I made in a Home Economics class at school.

I had already been baking and cooking at home before I went to grammar school – my mum taught me to start baking when I was about 5yrs old, and I often helped her and my maternal grandmother.

Continue reading Old School Raspberry Buns at Lavender and Lovage.

Old-Fashioned Milk Chocolate Cake was one of my mum’s favourite cakes to make. She used to make one every Sunday for Sunday tea.

Baking with Be-Ro for Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day)

Old-Fashioned Milk Chocolate Cake was one of my mum’s favourite cakes to make. She used to make one every Sunday for Sunday tea, and decorate it with walnuts, which added a delightful nuttiness to the cake, and which goes so well with chocolate.

Continue reading Old-Fashioned Milk Chocolate Cake at Lavender and Lovage.

Who doesn’t love an English Afternoon Tea, with scones, cakes & sandwiches. Now you can see how it’s done with the Countess of Carnarvon and an online Afternoon Tea Party at the REAL Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle and Viking TV.

*Non Paid collaboration with Viking TV*

The Real Downton Abbey

Who doesn’t love an English Afternoon Tea, with fluffy scones, jam and cream, and an assortment of enticing cakes & delicate tea sandwiches.

Continue reading Afternoon Tea at Highclere Castle at Lavender and Lovage.

Teisen Lap Welsh Cake – Tomorrow is St David’s Day, the Patron Saint of Wales, and also the first meteorological day of spring, not that you’d know it from the weather. So, today I’m sharing a wonderful recipe for a Welsh farmhouse classic, TEISEN LAP, also known as “wet cake” or “moist cake”. 

Cakes and Recipes for St David’s Day

Tomorrow, the 1st of March, is St David’s Day, the Patron Saint of Wales, and also the first meteorological day of spring, not that you’d know it from the weather.

Continue reading Teisen Lap Welsh Cake at Lavender and Lovage.

with
Original Icelandic Skyr

We fired up the “Barbie” the other day, and cooked these delicious Greek Style Pork Steaks with Garlic Yogurt Sauce over the coals! The weather was hot and sunny, and it was the perfect day for cooking and eating “Al Fresco”. I love pork steaks, they are lean and boneless with not much fat on them, which means they are great for low-fat, high protein meals.

Continue reading Greek Style Pork Steaks with Garlic Skyr Sauce at Lavender and Lovage.

Perfect for
5:2 Fast Day and Weight Watchers

Hot on the heels of my last “healthy” new year recipe for 5:2 Diet & WW Chicken Mergeuz Meatballs, which has proved to be very popular, is my latest creation,“Snowy Day” Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup. Today’s recipe was made yesterday, for a cold and snowy day here in North Yorkshire, where a big bowl of something tasty and steaming hot was needed for lunch.

Continue reading “Snowy Day” Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup at Lavender and Lovage.

Not your usual Pasta Bake
or
Sausage Casserole!

I’m going out with a bang for British Sausage Week and for the day after Bonfire Night, and today’s recipe for Spicy Sausage Pizza Pasta Bake is, as I have stated above, NOT your usual pasta bake or  sausage casserole! I wanted to combine a sausage casserole, which I am very fond of, with a pasta bake, which I am also very fond of, and I think I’ve cracked it with this recipe…….I have packed the dish with lots of vegetables, which are then bound together with a pizza flavoured herb tomato passata sauce, with acres of melted cheese on top for good measure.

Continue reading Spicy Sausage Pizza Pasta Bake at Lavender and Lovage.