About ME!

HELLO!!

I'm Christine. I'm a busy mum to 5 year old twins, Robin and Evie and wife to Ian. I also run a property management company. We live in a small village in beautiful, rural Northumberland. I love spending time at home with my family, running and exercising and socialising with my fabulous friends.

When I'm not busy with work, family or friends, my favourite pastimes are cooking and eating (often a combination of family/friends and food). I particularly get so much (too much?!) pleasure from making healthy, nutritious meals from nothing (well, whatever I've got in the house!), making leftovers exciting and not wasting a thing. I HATE waste. I've wanted to start a blog for a few years but time just hasn't allowed it. But I'm very excited about getting it going now and sharing my passion for food with the world!!

I'm very health conscious and want to feed my family good food, on a budget. As you can imagine, time is not something that I have a lot of so my cooking has to fit in with my busy life. Weekday cooking has to be fuss-free and speedy but I still want it to feel indulgent.

I am also a keen vegetable gardener. There is little better than creating a whole meal from produce that you raised with your own fair hands. And in the British weather, it's not always easy. It makes you appreciate it even more though! I would urge anyone to have a go at growing their own. Even if it's just a few of your favourites in pots or some herbs on the windowsill. Do it!

I'm going to try and share some of the recipes that I create and any tips that I have along with general ramblings about food and the good life!

Don't expect fine dining, just homemade, tasty, healthy and wholesome food. Always on a budget! Maybe with the odd flashy, entertaining number thrown in for good measure. The budget won't go out the window though.

I'm very new to this so please bear with me until I find my feet!!

I hope you enjoy it. All feedback very much appreciated!!

Thanks y'all!

Monday, 3 March 2014

Pancake Day!! Easy as 1,2,3!

Calories: approx 122 per pancake based on 8 servings

Hello lovely, fellow foodies,

Sorry for the radio silence for a few days. It was a busy, busy weekend and the house is still infected with chicken pox too! 

Well, doesn't it feel like spring has sprung? Yesterday was so gorgeous so I got my little spotty boy out in the veg garden to do some digging. To be more accurate, I dug and he sprayed me, the hens, himself and anything else he could find with the hose. It entertained him though while I got excited about what I'm going to grow and where! I can't wait! Is that a bit sad?! Who cares!!

Anyway, it's PANCAKE DAY!! Yippee!! I couldn't not post a pancake recipe today so here is a pancake that I make loads over the summer when I have a glut of courgettes. I, however, will be gorging my face with normal pancakes smothered in golden syrup, sugar, lemon and orange juice. It's the pancake from my childhood and still the best!! I actually arrive at today with a (n extremely) large amount of trepidation as I sort of decided to give up sweets for Lent.... For someone with an extraordinarily sweet tooth, this could prove tricky. I've not decided if this will include cake, puddings or hot chocolate yet... 

Courgette and feta pancakes 

Easy, peezy, lemon (zest rather than) squeezy...

Standard pancake batter (TIP: just remember this is as easy as 1,2,3: 100g plain flour, 2 eggs, 300mls milk. And a pinch of salt. Simples!)

Grate a courgette (I use the food processor for speed), stir it in your batter. Add the zest of half a lemon and about 60g low fat greek salad cheese, crumbled, some chilli flakes (optional), and if you've got any fresh mint, a little bit chopped in to the mixture would be nice too. 

Give it all a really good stir. 

Cook in frying pan as normal but you will need to keep the pancake thin and also make sure they're fully cooked before flipping or they'll break up and look like a right mess. Would still taste lovely though!

Hope you enjoy!  Happy shrove Tuesday!

To counteract the gluttony of pancake day, I will be popping a virtuous, scrummy tomato soup on later! Watch this space...



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