chicken and mixed veg carbonara

Prep time: 15 min         Cook time: 20 min          Makes: 6 servings   I live for cream of mushroom soup.  It makes for the fastest weeknight dinners without just having a bowl of soup.  My husband loves this variation and I think my last time making it I…

spaghetti & meatballs

Prep time: 20 min         Cook time: 45 min          Makes: 6 servings   It’s been a minute, but I’m back! Not much happened while I’m been MIA – just getting married, going on our mini-moon and preparing for Christmas 😉  Now we’re settled in as husband and wife…

afternoon tea

When my sister and I were little we would have tea parties with Grandma Simpson.  She had the teeniest little china cups, one with a chick on the side that I loved.  She’d serve it with sugar cubes – the cups were so small 1 cube filled half the cup.  But it was great, it…

oatmeal choco chip cookies

Prep time: 15 min         Cook time: 15 min          Makes: 3 dozen cookies   For as long as I can remember my stepmum Monica has made the most incredible chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I think I’ve ever had.  Crowds flock to them and they are always the…