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 […]