If I don’t have a recipe to share, a gadget to test or a foodie place to visit but I still have something to say, this is where I’ll say it! Kitchen Scraps contains my random musings on food and life.
More gongs for my virtual mantlepiece!
I was absolutely thrilled to receive not one but two awards from Kim at Treats and Trinkets! Thank you very much Kim. I am really sorry that it has taken me so long to pass on the joy of receiving them to other bloggers. I’m afraid work has to come first and I have been a bit snowed under lately. You really all should pop and take a look at her blog it is packed with some really delicious recipes. For the Kreativ Blogger Award I’m supposed to tell you 10 things about me, so here goes:- I love swimming I’m...
read moreGood things always come in threes!
I was overjoyed last week to receive my first awards for the site, Just Baked and Jennie- The Messy Baker awarded me a Versatile Blogger Award! Then I got a Fabulous Blogger award from The Cook, The Baker and the Clay Boy Maker
read moreFood Blog Tag!
I’ve been tagged! The wonderfully crazy Choc Chip Uru from Go Bake Yourself has linked to me in this game, a great way to find out a little more about your blogging peers! Please pop along to her site and find out more about her! The Rules: 1. You must post the rules. 2. Post 12 fun facts about yourself in the blog post. 3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then create 12 new questions for the people you tagged. 4. Tag 12 people and link them on your post. 5. Let them know you’ve tagged...
read moreLeftover shortbread, a little bonus treat!
After making these delicious Fudgy Lemon Bars, I found I had a bit of the base dough left over. Now I hate to waste anything, so I rolled it out into a circle, scored it into segments and baked it. Et voila, fantastic shortbread biscuits! If you want to make them, just follow the first part of the lemon bar recipe for making the base. No, nothing gets thrown away in this house, they disappeared very quickly with a nice...
read moreA happy accident!
I have been busy experimenting in the LoveFoodCookFood kitchen again and have inadvertently come up with a twist on an old family favourite. Does that happen to you? It happens to me all the time. In fact , it is fairly safe to say that most of my recipes come from these happy mistakes. I will be posting up to the site very soon. So watch this space. :-)
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