Alice Wright's Blog, page 8

Crispy Plastic Duck

Proper, almost, disaster this week! As a treat I bought a huge tray of crispy duck. I love this stuff, I order it from Chinese restaurants and adore the supermarket versions you can bake at home as a mid-week indulgence. They come complete with little packs of pancakes, chopped cucumber, spring onions and sachets of [...]

Mummy Pig Bakes Cakes

I’m not a fan of Peppa Pig. It’s nothing personal and I think Daddy Pig is quite cool, I just can’t bear her terribly squeaky voice and the fact I had to sit through hours of her shows for years. She’s no where near as bad as that awful Lola though from Charlie & Lola, [...]

My Carboot Kitchen

Come on, who doesn’t love going round carboot sales and picking up cheap oddities and towels made of fleece? Gotta love a bargain right? I like nothing more than subjecting my family to two hours of standing around in a cold, windy field on a Sunday morning so that I can rifle through boxes of [...]

No Words Necessary

This has happened: Don’t you wish you were married to me?

Surplus Chocolate Cupcakes Success

Sometimes things go right, but also sometimes too right… We had loads of chocolate left over from Easter, and as none of us are great chocolate snackers so I thought I would make cupcakes out of the remaining eggs. Even if they were inedible at least my son and I would have some fun and [...]

Don’t Play With Your Food, Or Do

Just a little update on my son’s recent meals, since my last post about them. Do read it if you want to know how to boil hotdogs or create seaweed from cheese. Purists will be glad to know that I have managed to source and slice some buns for those easy dogs: Looks like a [...]

Hot Cross Rock Cake Drop Scone Buns For Easter

Easter. Another excuse to make and eat lots of things that you wouldn’t any other week of the year. Such as Mini Eggs, Simnel Cake (what is that anyway?) and hot cross buns! I’ve never made hot cross buns before, and after this week I probably never will again… I had seen others touting their [...]

Burnt Leaves (not a Sausage Casserole)

Life is all about learning… and I have recently learnt that you can’t bake kale. Well not unless you like crispy black leaves. Here is my signature thing going in: This mix of meat and things includes fresh kale, it looks great doesn’t it? It’s got a potential sausage casserole vibe going on right? Here [...]

Mother’s Ruined!

Well after last weeksexposé on the terrible dishes I serve to my son, I myself was served this for Mother’s Day on Sunday: Isn’t it wonderful? Laden with gifts and gorgeous food, beautifully presented and thoughtful. Boy did I feel small, it’s a far cry from hotdogs on a plate right? OK he had some [...]

Cooking Is Child’s Play

Regular readers will know I cook a lot with my son, sometimes successfully, usually unsuccessfully. Of course being a mother means having to create bespoke meals for fussy eaters, or as I like to call it ‘putting something on a plate he’ll put in his mouth’. Sometimes this does not include the prerequisite fruit and [...]