We love eating curry in Winter and I have been making a very tasty chicken curry lately that is easy  to prepare and suitable for the slow c...

I love orange cake and am always on the lookout for a new recipe that improves on my current one.  This is it.  I made this cake last week ...

Thank you all for your kind messages of support.  We will all miss Bernadette very much. ``````````````````````````````````````````````...

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts for Bernadette and I.  I spent a short amount of time with her yesterday because she was too we...

Back in the day, before the invention of supermarkets, most of our food was unpackaged and much of it was fresh.  I remember a time when the...

One of the great benefits of eating food you have cooked from scratch is that you know what you are eating.  The ideal is that you buy all t...

I think we're are gaining ground.  There has been a shift away from the purchased conveniences of modern living, women and men are begi...

I'm at a loss to understand why foods go in and out of fashion.  It seems that people get sick of one thing, then go on to the next.  ...

I am always on the lookout for delicious thrifty meals that are fairly easy to make but in winter I keep coming back to this old standby tha...

Good morning everyone.  It's another beautifully cold morning here, the temperature is 10*C/50F right now and not 6C/42F like it was ye...

Change is in the air. I can feel it in my bones. Housekeeping, the acts of budgeting, food production, home cooking, cleaning, and caring...

In the cooler months I love using my crockpot/slow cooker.  It tenderises cheaper cuts of meat over the long slow cooking process and it mak...