Family Meals

Down Memory Lane with my Old Fashioned Milk Loaf Recipe

Breakfast Week Meal Plan: Baked Full English Breakfast Recipe and 5:2 Diet Breakfast Ideas

Snow, Bread and Boule! An Easy Artisan Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread Recipe

Five-A-Day Family Supper Recipe: “Sunday Lunch” Chicken, Sausage and Vegetable Hotpot

5:2 Diet Fast Day: Pancakes for Breakfast – Blueberry & Oat Pancakes with Cinnamon Recipe

Charles Dickens and London Particular: Ham and Pea Soup Recipe

Think Pink! Real Bread: Beetroot and Walnut Bread Rolls Recipe

5:2 Diet Fast Day Recipes: Coronation Potato Salad and Low-Fat Pan-Fried Garlic Hake Fillets

Boxing Day Brunch – Ham and Bubble and Squeak (Recipe)

Historical Roast Turkey Recipe: Gilded Saffron & Butter Basted Turkey with Herb Garland

Recipes: Fabulous Festive Fish! Little Smoked Salmon Cucumber Cups With Peppered Crème Fraiche

Old Fashioned Sweet Delights: Spiced Mincemeat Meringue Pies (Recipe)

Nigel Slater comes to Supper: A Rich Dish of Sprouts and Cheese for a Very Cold Night

Rudolph The Red Nosed Potato! Mini Potato Dauphinoise Muffins for Christmas Day (Recipe)

A Family Favourite and Winter Warmer: Traditional Cottage Pie with Cheesy Mash (Recipe)

Welcome! I'm Karen; it’s lovely to see you here. I was born in South Africa, but I've lived all over the world, latterly calling North Yorkshire my home where I lived for many years before moving to SW France, although I'm now living in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, in an old Victorian cottage. I am a freelance food and travel writer, as well as a food stylist, and recipe developer, with a passion for art, travel, books, photography, seasonal food and especially cheese and wine. Please do get in contact with me if you have any questions about my work or commissioning me. Read More…