Tag: family meals

• Pitta Breads- #100bakeschallenge

  

  Back at Christmas 2021 my friend bought me a really useful gift- a poster from Crumbs By Collette, which features 100 scratch off squares. Each square underneath reveals a picture of a well known traditional bake. As you bake that particular item, you scratch off the square. It doesn’t have a time frame to be…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  May 27, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge

  #100bakeschallenge, baking, bread baking, comfort food, family, family meals, flatbread, kebabs, pitta, pitta bread, salad, yeast baking

• Paul Hollywood’s Focaccia: #100bakesposterchallenge No 74.

  

  Yeast baking and bread making is my nemesis! I’m not confident baking bread at all. Things either don’t rise or they look a complete mess. So when I have to make anything bread or yeast related, I run for the hills! Now as you know, I have my #100bakeschallengeposter on the go and by New…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 15, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Breads and Yeast Bakes, Family Meals, Food and Drink

  #100bakeschallenge, baking, baking with kids, comfort food, family, family friendly, family meals, focaccia, Italian baking, Italy, olive oil, savoury baking, yeast baking

• Baking Update!

  

  Hi everyone! I feel as if it’s a lifetime since I last updated my blog. My last post was just around Easter, I think. As soon as we got into the second week of the Easter holidays, I began to feel unwell. I have been using HRT for nearly two years and due to the…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 6, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge

  afternoon tea, baking, baking with kids, birthday cake, biscuits, brownies, cake, cakes, celebrations, chocolate ate, classic cakes, comfort food, cookies, cream, cupcakes, dark chocolate, dessert, desserts, family, family friendly, family meals, flapjacks, icing sugar, jam, muffins, platinum jubilee, shortbread, Sugar and Crumbs, the Platinum Jubilee, traditional, traybakes, white chocolate

• Homemade pizzas- WORLD Pizza Day

  

  January 17th is World Pizza Day as I found out when looking at my #mostlyfoodiedaysof calendar from mylegoman.com. As if I need an excuse to eat Pizza? To be honest, I didn’t often eat pizza at home until a few months ago when I started a new job. On my way home from work I…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 23, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Foodie Days Of, Savoury Baking

  Annabel Karmel recipe, choose your own toppings, family meals, homemade, homemade pizza, mozzarella cheese, Mutti pizza sauce, My Legoman Foodie Days Of Calendar, pizza, pizza dough, tomato sauce, World Pizza Day, yeast

• MINT TOFFEE CHOC CRISPIE SQUARES #nationalenglishtoffeeday

  

  According to My Legoman’s Mostly Foodie Days Of 2022 calendar, yesterday (January 8th) was National English Toffee Day. It’s a day late as yesterday I was holed up in bed full of the shivers, fever, aches and pains after having my Covid Booster on Friday afternoon. Thankfully I feel a lot better now, although my…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 9, 2022

  Cooking With Kids, Foodie Days Of, No Bakes

  #foodiedaysof #nationalenglishtoffeeday, baking, baking with kids, dark chocolate, family, family friendly, family meals, mint, mint chocolate, mint toffees, no bake cakes, quick bake, toffees, traybake, traybakes

• A Bake For All Seasons #1: Blackberry and Apple Crumble Cake.

  

  3rd October 2021 As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not that much of an Autumn/ Winter persion. Mainly because I don’t like it being dark early and getting up in the dark. Not to mention the lack of sun. But having said that, there are positives to this time of year- it’s Bake Off Season! The…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 28, 2021

  A Bake For All Seasons, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Seasonal, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes, The Great British Bake Off

  apple, autumn, baking, cake, cakes, cinnamon, comfort food, dessert, desserts, dried fruit, family, family meals, spices, teatime treats, The Great British Bake Off, traditional

• Ham, Cheese, Tomato and Pesto Parcels

  It’s now my second week back in work after lockdown.  My working days have changed and it has made me have to be really organised.  Before lockdown I worked on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday but for now I am in work on a Monday, Tuesday and Friday. On a working day I finish at…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  July 15, 2020

  Pastry, Tarts and Pastries, Uncategorized

  cheddar, family meals, ham, meal planning, meal prep, Pastry, pesto sauce, puff pastry, savoury baking, The Batch Lady

• Home-made Pizza

  

  It’s been ages since I’ve made pizza. Last Sunday night I was planning out our shopping list when I was thinking about what we could have for our dinner. We all love pizza, although Mr S doesn’t really like shop bought ones. I like the thin and crispy ones but can’t stand anything deep pan…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 18, 2020

  Breads and Yeast Bakes

  Annabel Karmel, baking with kids, dough, family meals, homemade pizza, kid friendly, lockdown baking, pizza, pizza dough

• Yeast Free Naan Bread

  

  With a shortage of strong bread flour and yeast in the shops the other day, I’ve been making my own naan bread. I’ve always loved naan bread but the beauty with this recipe is that it doesn’t need yeast or strong bread flour to make it. This naan recipe contains self raising flour and full…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 13, 2020

  Breads and Yeast Bakes

  baking, bread, curry, family meals, Indian food, lockdown baking, naan bread, no yeast, self raising flour, yeast free, yoghurt

• The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Beef and Beer Pie.

  

  Friday 15th December 2017. In the run up to Christmas my head was all over the place and I was so disorganised.  I was trying to be organised but it just didn’t happen.  I planned to cook a steak and ale pie for Mr SmartCookieSam,  our son and I but I completely forgot to switch…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  December 27, 2017

  Tarts and Pastries

  ale, beef and beer pie, braising steak, button mushrooms, Christmas get togethers, Dijon mustard, family meals, shortcrust pastry, steak and ale pie, The Great British Bake Off, Winter comfort food