Packed with fruit & veg, these deliciously moist breakfast muffins are low in fat and contain no added sugar. A perfectly healthy start to the day! One long Sunday afternoon I was sitting at the kitchen table, fighting a craving for a sugary, unhealthy muffin. I sipped at my tea…
Sweet, delicious, gooey cinnamon babka recipe, taken from Shannon Sarna’s book Modern Jewish Baker. I was really to get my hands on a copy of this book! I’ve been following Shannon Sarna’s amazing looking breads, cakes and other delicious recipes online for a while. How fabulous to have them all…
One of the more ‘out there’ symbolic foods for Rosh Hashanah has to be the head of a fish. Placed on the festive table (although rarely eaten!) it symbolises our desire to be “the head and not the tail” – leaders rather than followers, or maybe thoughtful and considered rather…
Fresh strawberries turn this moist & fruity banana loaf cake into a zingy seasonal treat! Delicious as a snack or with ice-cream as an easy dessert. Banana loaf cake, aka banana bread, is our standard way to deal with too-ripe-to-eat brown bananas here at FFF towers. I have an ancient…
Keep cool this summer with delicious chocolate orange pudding ice-lollies! Creamy chocolate pudding & fresh orange make ice-lollies your family will love. A while ago (when I made my amazing vegan 3-ingredient chocolate tart) I mused about the items available in supermarket kosher sections, and whether they were really any indication…
Crispy, savoury and delicious, these super-easy baked potato wedges are delicious dipped in mayo or ketchup, or served anywhere you’d normally have chips. During Pesach, readymade frozen oven chips were off the menu. Perhaps you can buy them for Pesach where you live, but here in Cambridge, far from a…
These delicious savoury muffins are soft, light and fluffy – perfect served warm from the oven for lunch or a snack. Great for lunch boxes & picnics too! Do you like savoury muffins? I think I might prefer them over the more conventional sweet kind. They certainly went down well…
Have you made ‘machos’ yet? These crunchy matza nachos seem to be having a moment and it’s easy to see why – they’re super-easy and incredibly moreish. A brilliant way to make matza into something a bit special. I had the idea to make sweet machos after reading this post…
Do you find that your family will eat / not eat certain things depending on what you call them? DH “hates” kugel and will not eat it. However, when I made this rosti – a potato kugel by any other name – he was quite enthusiastic. Hmmm. I really fancied…
Crisp, sweet and delicious! These easy-to-make vanilla flavoured fortune cookie hamantaschen contain Purim greetings and fun messages. Happy Purim! I’ve had these fortune cookie hamantaschen in mind for years and years, and I’m so pleased I finally found time to work out how to make them! Knitted treats I had…
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