St Patrick’s Day Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes Ingredients • 95g unsweetened cocoa, plus more for dusting finished cupcakes • 400g sugar • 240g all-purpose flour • 1 tsp baking soda • Pinch of salt • 1 bottle Guinness • 250g butter, melted • 1 tbsp vanilla extract • 3 large eggs • 190ml sour cream • 230g cream cheese, softened at ...

Review & Giveaway: My Little Sous Chef Cookbook The first tandem cookbook for adult and kids. My Little Sous-Chef is a tandem cookbook for kids and parents to use together. Their mission is to introduce kids to the magic of cooking with the help of the grown-ups and there are two volumes – one for the parents and one for ...

Unusual Items you Can Keep in the Fridge Flowers This secret hack used by florists will keep your flowers looking fresh for longer. If you’ve prematurely bought flowers for a friend, or want them to last longer, simply store them in the fridge in a vase overnight. Eye Cream The cool temperature gives you an extra help in de-puffing sleepy ...

Sticky Maple-Glazed Parsnips And Carrots Ingredients 6 parsnips, peeled, halved lengthwise 12 thin carrots, peeled, greens trimmed but not removed 3 garlic cloves 4 slices bacon, each cut into 4 pieces 10 sprigs fresh thyme 60ml pure maple syrup 2 tsp wholegrain mustard Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper Method Preheat oven to 220°C, with rack in lower third. Place ...

Delicious Vegetarian Roast Butternut Squash Ingredients 2 small butternut squash 4tbsp olive oil 4 shallots, roughly chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 long red chilli, seeds removed and chopped 200g Feta cheese, chopped 100g Long Grain And Wild Rice 50g pine nuts Handful mint leaves, roughly chopped Method Heat the oven to 200°C. Cut the squashes in half length ways, ...

Organised Family Life Hacks – Part 1 Planning ahead and doing a little bit at a time leaves a lot more time to enjoy yourself and just makes the general day to day running of life so much easier. You also can save money by being prepared through the year. Every Friday we’ll post a list of Organised Family Life ...

Perfect French Toast for Mother’s Day Ingredients 4 eggs 355ml milk 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp sugar a pinch of salt 4 1/2 tbsp butter (more as needed) 6 thick slices white bread or brioche maple syrup handful of blueberries (optional)   Method Preheat the oven to 180°C. Whisk the eggs, milk, nutmeg, vanilla extract, sugar ...

500 Calories or Less: Super Easy Chicken Curry This is one of our favourite less than 500 calorie meals. It’s perfect if you’re looking for 5:2 diet plan ideas or just fancy something lighter for dinner. The 500 calories fast days are obviously the hardest part of the diet. The point of the 5:2 diet is that you give your ...

Cinnamon Sugar Porridge with Cream Cheese Glaze Ingredients 415ml milk 2 tbsp brown sugar 1 tbsp sugar ½ tsp vanilla extract ¼ tsp salt 135g rolled oats Topping   2 tbsp butter, melted 3 tbsp light brown sugar 1½ tsps cinnamon Glaze 30g cream cheese, softened 1 tbsp milk a drop of vanilla extract 5 tbsp icing sugar   Method ...

Easy Ways to Freshen up Your Home in Time for Spring Clean carpets Send out the rugs for professional cleaning. For wall-to-wall carpet, consider hiring a pro for deep cleaning and stain removal. You’ll be surprised how much dirt, dust and hair builds up in your carpet. A deep clean will help restore the carpet’s colour and texture. Clean your ...

Hairspray Uses For Stain Removal Did you know that hairspray can be a cheap and versatile household cleaning product? The fact is that yes, actual cleaning products will also do the trick, but sometimes you’ve got to use what you’ve got on hand. We did some checking around and it looks like alcohol-based hair spray is key, and the hairspray ...

Here’s What You Can Prepare In Your Garden This March Need ideas for the garden? Here’s what you can start planting and prepping in March: Add a splash of early colour with forsythia. The deciduous forsythia bush offers arching branches of bright yellow flowers for a splash of spring color in your garden. Forsythia bushes produce flowers first, with the ...