My sausage casserole was a success and rather tasty as it happens – will be making another batch soon but I shall be making a chicken casserole tomorrow. So tomorrow after work I should arrive home with dinner all ready and waiting for me and there should be plenty left over for the rest of [...]

Well after my success at making cawl last week I have invested in a slow cooker and am already planning on making a sausage casserole this week – have bought the ingredients that I was short of today so will have to see how I get on. However one of the rings on my cooker [...]

Really don’t know where the time has gone but as we are about to hit December I thought an update was in order.
I have pretty much decided that I will not be making Christmas cards this year, the decision eventually came down to me just not having the time – I may make a few [...]

When you are shopping on a limited budget you are certainly more aware of the rising cost of food. This has to be one of the first months in a very long time that I have had to use my money carefully after paying out for work on the car I realised that if I [...]

Well been a little while since my last entry and there are a number of reasons for that, the main one being that I have been kept very busy with life in general. The second reason and I don’t really want to make a big thing about it is down to the fact that the [...]

Ask Me Questions
A few weeks ago I posted asking for the people who visit my site on a regular basis to let me know who they were and most people did this but there is one regular visitor to the site who has remained anonymous and I can guess who it is and hope that [...]

I said I would post the recipe for my Victoria Sponge Cake and here it is:
Victoria Sponge Cake

Ingredients
175g (6oz) Butter/Margarine (Margarine is lighter)
175g (6oz) Caster sugar
175g (6oz) Self-raising Flour
Three Eggs
Vanilla Essence
Jam (For the filling but you could use whatever you want – I would however suggest seedless jams)
Icing Sugar (For the filling)
Method
Grease two round sandwich [...]