Good guidance and advice on ‘free-from’ cooking from an experienced Mum who has children on a wheat free and gluten free diet. Explains where to look out for hidden and unexpected wheat. Read More…
Making it Local
Making it Local — Gill Baker made a meal from all local ingredients – and this is the tasty result – highlighting the successes and challenges! Read More…
Food Blogs
Just really delighted that Penny’s Recipes has been chosen as one of the main food blogs by some really lovely and mighty websites – s o this is to say Thank You Very Much Read More…
Website Joys And Wobbles
Want a fsupport developing your website or if you want a website develope dfor you – look no further than Devon Web Designers Read More…
Christmas Cakes
Christmas cake recipes for all tastes whether you prefer the rich fruit cake or something a little lighter, lower cost and easier to bake. Read More…
Baking Cakes
Cake baking is experiencing a revival – and no wonder when the doing of it is so therapeutic and the result so rewarding! Read More…
Why I Love Soup
Soup can be special, or everyday. It is low cost, warming and a great way to use up leftovers in a tasty nourishing way Read More…
Harvest Walk
Is there a better way to spend and autumn afternoon than blackberry and apple picking? And then going home to cook with the collected bounty to make into apple chutnet, balckberry and apple crumble and to use in savoury dishes too. Read More…
Going On A Picnic
There is something delightful about eating outdoors on a sunny summer’s day, especially if you have plenty of good food. Quiches and cakes all taste even better when eaten in the sun in a beautiful location. Read More…
The Birth Of The Recipe
Fascinating to discover the origins of writing down recipes. The first cookery book was not Mrs Beetons – although anyone can be forgiven for thinking that it was. Read More…
Simple Buffet For A Fabulous Event
Creating a buffet lunch doesn’t have to be daunting. Quiches prepared in advance and frozen, jacket potatoes slow cooked in the oven and a variety of salads makes for a feast without stress. Read More…
Home Cooked Ready Meals
Cooking in advance and the freezing meals is good for busy days at home – and self catering holidays Read More…
Tea And Treat
I am on holiday in Cornwall this week, with my husband. On the way we visited Trerice National Trust property. It is an Elizabethan Manor house set in the countryside and really quite delightful. It has pretty gardens, including a kitchen garden, planted and maintained by a local primary school with quite a variety of […]
10 Reasons To Bake At Home
The smell of baking scents your home, and the act of baking is pure therapy – Read more about the benefits of baking Read More…
Baking Scones
Baking scones is very easy and much lower cost than buying them ready made. Plain, fruit or ginger scones are all delicious Read More…
Simple, Traditional Food For All
Over the last ten days we have had several guests to stay and sometimes it can be difficult to please all of the people all of the time! With a mixture of carnivores and vegetarians there certainly have been challenges and it is sometimes easier to go back to some basic dishes. Although in theory […]
Healthy Breakfast Event
I was excited that after only a few days of Penny’s Recipes being started, I was invited to be involved in a ‘Healthy Breakfast’ Event as part of a number of activities taking place over three weeks, to help demonstrate a breakfast that goes beyond a bowl of cornflakes. Being a recent convert to home […]
Penny’s Recipes Begins
Today marks the start of a new project, with the start of this website. It seems to me that in spite of numerous cookery programmes, recipe books and celebrity chefs, that still as a nation we know less about food than our Mothers and Grandmothers and still less about what is in season and where […]