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Thursday 9 February 2012
Friday 3 February 2012
A few words about me ...
Hello, I'm Leanne. I'm married with a beautiful 20 month old daughter. I work 2 days a week and during the rest of the week I enjoy cooking, baking, stewing, steaming ... any kind of 'food-ing' to be honest!
I wanted to create a space where I could make a note of the best recipes I've used, put photos of any particularly aesthetically pleasing creations and inspire other mums or anyone needing ideas for good, healthy, fresh meals or cakes (the cakes may not be so healthy mind you!).
When my husband and I both worked full time we just prepared whatever food we could be bothered to make when we got home from work and only made fresh, made-from-scratch meals when we had friends or family over or at weekends. This has all changed since having a little daughter to feed - making sure she has all the nutrients she needs to grow up strong and healthy is very important to me and my husband.
As well as nourishing my daughter, there are other reasons I have started enjoying preparing food more and more at this stage of my life ...
Being at home 3 days a week I am sure I am not alone in feeling I want to show my husband how much I appreciate him going to work all week so I can be at home with Annie, so I love preparing fresh, tasty dishes I know he'll love to tuck into when he gets home from work. I get a real sense of satisfaction when he raves about what I've cooked for him! This makes me want to make more and more different dishes for him.
I also love baking cakes for friends' and relatives' birthdays. Last year I made several cakes for people's birthdays - the main one being a fairy toadstool cake for my daughter's first birthday. My mum used to make brilliant birthday cakes for me as a child and I really appreciated the effort she went to, so I want to do the same for my daughter. I'm not too good at decorating yet but hope to get better as time goes on! This year I have decided to make a cake for all my close family and friends (well, those we'll see around their birthdays anyway - don't think Royal Mail can be trusted with posting a cake!).
The food I cook is not usually of my own creation I have to admit. I use recipes from the various celebrity chef books we've collected over the years or from online recipe websites or television programmes. So whenever I've used other people's recipes I'll be sure to quote the book/website/tv show used.
I hope people find this blog useful and please let me know if you try any of the recipes - and post photos too! :o)
I would also really like to get any new recipes, so please let me know any great ideas of recipes you have tried and have worked well (bearing in mind I'm allergic to cheese and chocolate - yes I know, awful things to be allergic to!).
Right, I'm off to make some veggie burgers and potato wedges for dinner, one of my husband and daughter's favourite meals!
I wanted to create a space where I could make a note of the best recipes I've used, put photos of any particularly aesthetically pleasing creations and inspire other mums or anyone needing ideas for good, healthy, fresh meals or cakes (the cakes may not be so healthy mind you!).
When my husband and I both worked full time we just prepared whatever food we could be bothered to make when we got home from work and only made fresh, made-from-scratch meals when we had friends or family over or at weekends. This has all changed since having a little daughter to feed - making sure she has all the nutrients she needs to grow up strong and healthy is very important to me and my husband.
As well as nourishing my daughter, there are other reasons I have started enjoying preparing food more and more at this stage of my life ...
Being at home 3 days a week I am sure I am not alone in feeling I want to show my husband how much I appreciate him going to work all week so I can be at home with Annie, so I love preparing fresh, tasty dishes I know he'll love to tuck into when he gets home from work. I get a real sense of satisfaction when he raves about what I've cooked for him! This makes me want to make more and more different dishes for him.
I also love baking cakes for friends' and relatives' birthdays. Last year I made several cakes for people's birthdays - the main one being a fairy toadstool cake for my daughter's first birthday. My mum used to make brilliant birthday cakes for me as a child and I really appreciated the effort she went to, so I want to do the same for my daughter. I'm not too good at decorating yet but hope to get better as time goes on! This year I have decided to make a cake for all my close family and friends (well, those we'll see around their birthdays anyway - don't think Royal Mail can be trusted with posting a cake!).
The food I cook is not usually of my own creation I have to admit. I use recipes from the various celebrity chef books we've collected over the years or from online recipe websites or television programmes. So whenever I've used other people's recipes I'll be sure to quote the book/website/tv show used.
I hope people find this blog useful and please let me know if you try any of the recipes - and post photos too! :o)
I would also really like to get any new recipes, so please let me know any great ideas of recipes you have tried and have worked well (bearing in mind I'm allergic to cheese and chocolate - yes I know, awful things to be allergic to!).
Right, I'm off to make some veggie burgers and potato wedges for dinner, one of my husband and daughter's favourite meals!
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