Brownies!

by Hannah
on Mon 06 June 2016

We've been promising this for a while and the time may finally be right... brownies! Now, this is David's area of speciality. This is one of the first things he baked and he's been tinkering with the recipe ever since. Who's to say whether this is actually the finished product. We're pretty happy with our brownies as things stand (and certainly the people we occassionally make them for seem to like them) but there's always …

by Hannah
on Wed 01 June 2016

Tags: Recipe dinner

Friday night is firmly pizza night in our house. Maybe not every week, but any Friday when we're struggling to come up with a plan for dinner, there's a good chance we'll end up having pizza. This is clearly not a problem (who doesn't love pizza, especially on a Friday??) but does mean we're always on the look-out for tasty meat-free pizza toppings (just a point on definitions, fish is not meat on Fridays). Anyway …

by Hannah
on Sun 29 May 2016

Tags: Recipe Dairy free Dessert

We've been quite socialable lately, inviting lots of friends (and occassionally family) around for dinner to see our lovely new house. These are typically three-course affairs but, if not, dessert is non-negotiable. Seriously, there is no way I'm inviting people round and not making dessert. The dessert I'm sharing with you today has recently come back into my repertoire, I've made a few changes with these latest iterations and it's ready to go.

So, here …

by Hannah
on Tue 24 May 2016

Tags: Recipe BBQ Meat

The days are getting longer, lighter, and hotter which can mean only one thing... barbecues (or BBQs, if you're not in the UK and don't insist on spelling things out!) I love a good barbecue/BBQ especially now we've got our own garden and can actually generate our own barbecue and not rely on other people to invite us to theirs! Now we've sorted out the garden, we've bought a barbecue (not quite assembled it …

by Hannah
on Wed 18 May 2016

Tags: Recipe Vegan Vegetarian

We've been experimenting with a more vegetarian diet of late. We've not fully taken the veggie-plunge but during the week (when we're at home, sometimes when we're out but it can be tricky for me) we try to keep meat out of our diet. This started during Lent but we've kept going post-Easter and our repetoire of veggie meals is slowly growing. We always tried to skip meat once or twice a week both because …

by Hannah
on Sat 14 May 2016

Tags: Vegan Chocolate

Time is flying by once again; the clocks have gone forward and my resolution to blog more frequently has (once again) not materialised! That's not to say we've not been eating tasty food, we have, and we've even managed to take some nice photos along the way... I've found a great spot in the corner of our new kitchen for taking photos in the morning, lots of lovely natural light.

Back in March, I went …

by Hannah
on Fri 04 March 2016

Tags: Recipe Dessert

So much for turning over a new leaf and blogging all the time in 2016. It's been a busy start to the year with life (and moving house) slightly getting in the way of blogging. While cooking (and eating!) has continued finding the time to take all the lovely photos and write them up has just proved too difficult. If I had one of those watches that stops time then maybe things would be different …

by Hannah
on Sun 21 February 2016

Tags: Recipe Baking Vegan

So scrolling through the recipe archive, it appears we've been quite remiss and never actually posted our brownie recipe. This has been carefully curated over many years, tweaked and perfected until we were prepared to write it down. It was the first thing to go into the special notebook of "our" recipes. Now that I remember, this is because we've struggled to take a photo of them that truly conveys just how chocolatey and how …

by Hannah
on Wed 06 January 2016

Tags: Recipe Vegetarian Vegan

Doesn't time fly? It's been a little while since our last post but, fear not, we're still here and cooking Hannah-friendly things! So, onto today's recipe. While we aren't quite as brave as some of the bloggers out there so won't be doing vegan January (or Veganuary), we do make an effort to be at least veggie a couple of times a week - it's good for us and helps us to be more creative. The …

by David
on Mon 26 October 2015

Tags: Recipe Lunch Soup

We never really look forward to the end of British Summer Time, but there are one or two benefits to the temperature getting a bit colder. One is that the tube (the Subway for our American readers) becomes more bearable, and the other is that we can have soup for lunch (which we find a bit weird in July). Here is a recipe for the soup we had last week.

Cut 1 butternut squash and …

by Hannah
on Sun 18 October 2015

Tags: Recipe Vegetarian

We recently hosted six of our lovely friends for a delicious Italian feast. We'd been given six bottles of wine to help us host the party and we really went to town on planning out the various courses based on my Nonna's Sunday lunch. One our guests is veggie and while the majority of the meal was veggie-friendly (and Hannah-friendly, obviously) the meat course was going to be a challenge! We decided on Braciole, a …

by Hannah
on Sun 11 October 2015

Tags: Recipe Baking

We've been meaning to play around with courgette cake for ages. Carrot cake is a always a winner in this house so we couldn't see why courgette cake wouldn't be, plus this cake has chocolate in which just makes it even better, right? We certainly like to think so. This is a wonderfully moist and rich cake, and together with the sticky, fudgy icing is seriously decadent. Oh, and it's vegan! We've been doing some …