Sarah Craig

I’ve got a whole bunch of green tomatoes over from my veggie garden and I’ve been investigating what to do with them.  Going to give this recipe a go (many thanks to Earthbabe from somewhere in the UK for publishing it xxx).   1.5 kg (3lb) green toms, 250g (0.5lb) onions, 1kg (2lb) cooking apples, [...]

This is too easy, and tooooooo yummy!   Ingedients 100ml cream 400ml milk (best with full fat) 3/4 cup of sugar 3 heaped teaspoons of instant coffee dissolved in as little hot water as you can get away with!   Mix everything together and whisk until the milk/cream is frothy then transfer to your icecream [...]

You’ll see a little while ago I posted up a recipe for an eggless strawberry icecream recipe, which is very good.  However, being such a fan of strawberries, I wanted one that tasted more of the fruit…so after some playing around here’s what I came up with Enjoy…I know you will!   Ingredients 1.5 pounds [...]

1 1/8 cups water (70 to 80 degrees F) 3 cups all-purpose flour 3 tablespoons brown sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast 2 quarts water coarse salt melted butter In bread machine pan, place the first four ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select dough setting (check dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add [...]

This recipe just goes to show how brainwashed we’ve all become by commercially mass-produced food.  If I asked you what color strawberry icecream is, I bet everyone would say bright pink!       Ingredients 1 pound of strawberries, hulled and halved 1 ½ cup sugar ¾ tsp fresh lemon juice 1/8 tsp salt 1 [...]

There’s a very special secret ingredient in these muffins.  If you haven’t come across Chia seeds before, go check out my post about them for more info. Ingredients 125g softened butter 6 tsp finely grated orange rind 150g caster sugar 1 egg lightly beaten 300g self-raising flour 1 tbsp poppy seeds 2 tbsp chia seeds [...]

This really is just tooooo yummy!!! Ingredients 100ml whipping cream 400ml milk juice of 2 lemons (you can add some grated rind too to make it more ‘lemony’ if you wish) 1 cup of sugar   Method Beat together the whipping cream, milk and sugar until the sugar has disolved Whilst still beating add in [...]

We’ve just started our own veggie patch and one of the first crops was jalepeno chillis. This is the recipe we adapted and Hubby looooooves them, so much they make him hiccup!

I was sent this and just had to share… I don’t think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But [...]