
These Bali Banana Pancakes were very much enjoyed by our reviewer Emma, when she tested Elly McCausland’s The Botanical Kitchen recently. In fact, she loved them so much, she’s contemplating a trip to Bali to find out more! ... Read more »
These Bali Banana Pancakes were very much enjoyed by our reviewer Emma, when she tested Elly McCausland’s The Botanical Kitchen recently. In fact, she loved them so much, she’s contemplating a trip to Bali to find out more! ... Read more »
Sometimes the best ideas are spur of the moment, driven by the ingredients you happen to have on hand. So it was with this banana, turmeric and maple syrup smoothie which I liked so much I made it three days in a row. Banana is my staple base for a smoothie – I love the ... Read more »
These ice lollies were based on a banana paletas recipe I spotted a while ago. A paleta is a Latin American ice lolly featuring fresh fruit mixed into a water or cream base – what we call an ice lolly in the UK, the Americans call an ice pop and the Canadians a popsicle! Roasting ... Read more »
Green smoothies are all the rage. But I’ve just not developed a taste for kale, spinach, broccoli or any other green vegetable in my smoothies and prefer to stick to my fruit concoctions. A banana is a great start to the day. In recent years, bananas have received some bad press because they do not ... Read more »
I love safari! Pete and I are fortunate to have been on several over the last two decades and have particular soft spots for the wildlife parks of Botswana, Kenya and South Africa, to name a few. There’s something utterly captivating about observing birds and animals in their natural habitats, up close and personal. ... Read more »
Charles Campion‘s Banana Cake is a recipe I copied across to my blog from one of the many places I shared my food experiences before I finally realised I was “stealth-blogging” and set up Kavey Eats! It’s such a good recipe I always intended to go back and add photos the next time I made ... Read more »
It was the pull of the pig that drew me towards The Whole Hog Cookbook. Promising “chops, loin, shoulder, bacon and all that good stuff“, author Libbie Summers draws on childhood memories of her grandparents’ hog farm together with “modern sensibilities [that] lend new twists to beloved dishes“. As the front flap declares, “the best ... Read more »
It would be easy to dismiss my friend Sig’s new book as jumping on the Scandi band wagon, but it’d be completely wrong to do so. Since June 2008 Sig has been sharing the joy’s of Scandinavian cooking via her blog, Scandilicious. Describing her heritage as Scandinavian-English-American-Irish-German-Jewish-Lithuanian (and born to a Norwegian father and English-American ... Read more »
This banana cake recipe is from Charles Campion’s Fifty Recipes To Stake Your Life On and makes a really, really gooey banana cake. I first made it several months ago and it’s so easy and tasty I now make it quite often. It also proved very popular when I took some in for a work ... Read more »