RECIPIES

Courgette & Carrot Cake

Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying my hidden vegetable blog. This week, No. 4 in this series, is this zesty courgette and carrot cake I first discovered it on the Lidl website and tweaked slightly to make it my own.

This is one of my family’s favorite desserts. It’s the one I get the most requests for at family gatherings and parties…

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Making Mirabelle Plum Jam & Plum Crumble. 11.6.2020 – 12.6.2020

It’s that time of year again when tons of delicious fruit is coming into season and the trees in our region are ripe for the picking. Thank you to Heather Patrone, founder of “The Rainbow Revival”* for inviting us to come over to her beautiful villa to pick the plump yellow fruits of her lovely Mirabelle tree overhanging her driveway. We had such a lovely time picking the fruit and laughed so hard as we chased after the ones that fell and rolled down the steep decline of the driveway.

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Cupcake Trees

I made a batch of double chocolate & chocolate chip muffins followed by a batch of carrot and banana muffins for…

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