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…
Back 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 large kosher shop, there were none to be had. And I was really craving chips. Well, not necessarily chips, but definitely hot,…
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…
Fluffy, soft, delicious raisin challah packed with extra dried fruits! Make a tree-shaped challah for Tu B’Shevat or enjoy a loaf anytime. Hands up who loves a fruity bun? They are always a big hit in our house, spread with loads of butter and enjoyed for breakfast, tea, or just…
The quick & easy filling for these festive mince pies is fruity, sweet, spicy and delicious, enhanced with kiddush wine and rum! Happy Chanukah! Nothing heralds the start of the festive season more than a plate of homemade, fragrant, warm mince pies. Sweet, spicy, fruity and delicious, they are a…
Delicious, chewy, oaty flapjacks studded with juicy dried fruits and richly flavoured with syrup and coconut. Dairy free, parve, vegan, and utterly yummy! It’s been a while since Rakusen’s discontinued their fruit flapjacks, but I still miss them. Unfortunately, while some people loved them, they apparently didn’t sell as well…
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