Family Meals

Quick and Simple Pasta Pronto! Swiss Chard and Walnut Pesto Recipe

An Old Vintage Hovis Bread Tin and Nigel Slater’s Black Banana Cake Recipe

Weekly Meal Plan, 5:2 Diet Recipes and Curried Carrot Soup (85 calories)

Galaxy Chocolate, World Baking Day and The Famous Drinking Chocolate Cake Recipe

Seductive Salmon! Salmon, Sorrel & Cream Cheese Parcels (Recipe)

TV Pizza Night! Sun-Dried Tomato, Red Onion and Chorizo Pizza Recipe

My Mum’s “Teacup Apricot and Honey Porridge” Recipe for a Cold March Morning

Healthy Happy Hearts: Low-Calorie Spicy Mexican Fish Wraps Recipe

Say Cheese! Cheese, Onion and Potato Pie Recipe for British Pie Week

Thrifty & Organic Meal Planner: Persian Lamb, Aromatic Cauliflower & Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes

#FishFight Haddock: Easy Cheesy Family Fish Pie Recipe for the 5:2 Diet (300 calories)

The Weekend Pudding Club: Chocolate Paradise Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe

A Vegetable Jewel in the Crown: Fenland Celery and Fenland Celery Soup Recipe

Smoked Cheese and Cherry Tomato Rarebit: On Toast Snack or Light Supper Recipe

The Lavender & Lovage Weekend Bakery: Sticky Ginger Marmalade Tea Loaf 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…