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  • Homemade Caesar Salad Dressing

    I make a lot of my own salad dressings, they're so easy to make yourself. But it took me a while to find a Homemade Caesar Salad Dressing Recip...
  • Bread Maker Bread Rolls with Malt & Bran

    I posted recently about using Malt Extract in bread recipes instead of sugar. I have continued experimenting, and the results so far have been real...
  • Pear & Vanilla Butter Recipe

    Pear and Vanilla are a match made in heaven. This weekend I made this beautiful - and very easy - Pear & Vanilla Butter. You will love it.
  • Bread Maker Oat Bread with Malt Extract

    This week I made breadmaker Oat Bread using Dried Malt Extract (DME) instead of sugar. It was absolutely delicious, and here's the recipe.
  • Homemade Whole Grain Mustard with Sauvignon Blanc

    I only discovered that I liked mustard quite recently. The gentle start I needed was French Dijon Mustard, adding sparingly to the odd thing. Then we started bringing it back from France. Then I started putting it in salad dressings. Now I make it.
  • Raw Honey & Mustard Salad Dressing, and all about emulsifying your dressings

    We don't eat salad very often in winter. But when we do, I like gorgeous dressing. This Raw Honey and Mustard Salad Dressing fits the bill, and it knocks the socks off anything you can buy.
  • Easy Bread Maker Bread Rolls

    Making bread rolls sounds like a lot of work, but it isn't. Make your homemade dough in your bread maker. Quick, easy, delicious.
  • Homemade Apricot Liqueur

    Fancy making a lovely drink but there's no fresh fruit around? Even during the winter months you can make some wonderful homemade drinks from dried fruit. Here's a beautiful recipe for Homemade Apricot Liqueur which is easy to make, and lovely enough to give away as gifts.
  • Why I make Household Spray Cleaner, and how you can too.

    I make my own Homemade Household Spray Cleaner. You can too, with this Recipe. Declutter your cleaning products & save money. What's not to like?
  • Homemade Granola Recipe

    This Homemade Granola Recipe has been adapted over time and is highly flexible. So if you don’t have cranberries or prefer some other dried fruit, put that in instead. 
  • Crumbly Vanilla Fudge Recipe

    Invariably when I buy fudge in a shop, I am disappointed. It tends to be soft and chewy. I want it crumbly, like it was in my childhood. So I set about making my own.
  • The Best Homemade Irish Cream Recipe - now with video!

    I've made Homemade Irish Cream a few times over the years. After much fiddling to get the taste as close as possible to that-brand-beginning-with-B's Irish Cream, this is the winner. It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it.