The Land Girls Wartime Homity Pie – Based on an authentic Wartime Recipe from a land girl in Devon, this Homity Pie is pure comfort food

Homity Pie – A Wartime Recipe also called Devon Pie

Today’s recipe for The Land Girls Wartime Homity Pie is one very close to my heart, as my late mother used to make it regulary, as I have too.

It’s a simple open pie recipe, as in a pie with no lid, that has a fascinating vintage history.

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Whether you call it New Mexico Pork Stew or Colorado Green Chili or Hatch Chile Verde, you won’t be able to stop eating this amazing chili

Cricket Tea BLT Sandwiches – One of the most popular requests for Cricket Tea Sandwiches, the Classic BLT always goes down well.

With an Easy Prep the Night Before Method

Continuing with my Cricket Tea posts, I am sharing my friend Sarah’s recipe for her Cricket Tea BLT Sandwiches.

These were the sandwiches that her son, who played cricket at Easton CC in Suffolk, regularly requested when she was on the cricket tea team.

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A protein packed creamy cacio e pepe style sauce perfect when you’re in the mood for mac and cheese, but trying to adult too.

How an air fryer can make the best char siu in less than 10 minutes.

Crispy, soft, pillowy, and bursting with butter, these are the best and easiest rolls you’ll ever make!

Everything you ever wanted to know about the best mayo.

This is my best sushi in Tokyo for 2026 from low- to high end. 

Just like the rest of the world, Cane’s sauce with its creamy, tangy, peppery, addictive pink sauce has me in a chokehold.

Move over Dubai chewy cookies, there’s another, newer, shinier, younger dessert in town and it’s called crispy Shanghai butter mochi.