This is the best 5 ingredient back pocket recipe: sweet and sticky, savory and garlicky, honey garlic chicken. Perfect chicken in 15 minutes.

Perfect air fryer grilled cheese: hands-off, quick and easy perfection with extra crispy toasty outsides and gooey melty cheesy insides.

An old school recipe today, and one that I loved, Old School Butterscotch Tart. My favourite “afters” at school dinners.

A Classic and Much-Loved School Dinners Pudding

An old school recipe today, and one that I loved, Old School Butterscotch Tart. If this was on the menu for “afters” at school dinners, I always chose it.

I am lucky enough to have gone to several schools (moving every three years due to my father’s job) where the school dinners were excellent, with lots of choice, and well cooked.

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Ease your way into your Valentine’s heart with these easy and delicious dinner ideas!

Paella even has its own emoji 🥘 – it NEEDS to be made and eaten.

Traditional & Air Fryer Fried Bread – Two methods of making this British Greasy Spoon classic breakfast accompaniment, frying pan & air fryer

Tradtional Frying Pan and Air Fryer Methods

Fried Bread! A Greasy Spoon classic, and breakfast staple for many during the war. My recipe today for Traditional & Air Fryer Fried Bread, shares two methods of making it.

Firstly, the traditional way, which is as it says on the box, bread fried in fat in a frying pan.

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Juicy, deeply crusted, perfectly cooked steak in under 10 minutes for those days you don’t have time or energy.

Cherie the Korat Cat – In Memory. I’m writing this post just two days afer losing my beloved Cherie cat, quite suddenly, which was a huge shock

Coping with the Grief of Losing a Much-Loved Pet

Cherie Berry Cat 17/07/09 to 05/02/25

There are no words…..I’m utterly heartbroken. My Cherie went to sleep forever in the middle of the night and I don’t know what I’m going to do now……she was a much-loved member of the family, and after a very short illness of just 48 hours, she just faded away.

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Slimming World Friendly Air Fryer Whole Roast Chicken – This Air Fryer Whole Roast Chicken recipe is AMAZING! Tender, juicy chicken with a crispy skin.

Slimming World Friendly – 1 Syn with Gravy

My latest Air Fryer recipe for Air Fryer Whole Roast Chicken is AMAZING! Tender, juicy chicken with a crispy skin in just a little over an hour.

Plus, this recipe is Slimming World friendly too, with less fat and the added bonus of self-made gravy in the pot, fraganced with herbs, onion and fresh lemon.

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