Interesting read and quite timely as my blog last week was questioning the future of our cookery skills.  Waitrose Weekend newspaper –...

This time we will be making some summer recipes : picnic ideas, preparing seasonal fruit and vegetables and summery sweets! “Cookery is a...

This time we will be making some summer recipes : picnic ideas, preparing seasonal fruit and vegetables and summery sweets! Date:...

Another busy week in the food world with Wednesday taking me up to the London Excel for the International Food Exhibition. As always lots...

Wednesday 5th April – Crockham Hill School, Crockham Hill, TN8 6RP After 8 years dedicated to food, Jo Banks brings creative recipe ideas...

We made these at my after school club with the children and they were all voted ‘very yummy’ by the children and all the Mums and Dads...

So January is quite a dull month. Short of money as we are paying off credit cards and Christmas expenses, weather is very cold and then...

Again a non refined sugar recipe, perfect for after school. These are easy as they are no bake but still good for lunchboxes as there are...

These are more banana bars or banana cake slices but with the oats and being baked they sort of classify a flapjack. They are really...

Ingredients: A little butter 4 slices of bread 2 eggs and 2 tablespoons milk a handful of fresh mint leaves 2 handfuls of frozen peas or...

How was Christmas? it already seems a long time ago… It was a flurry of food and family for me but no snow until now! Generally it was a...

Thursday 16th February 2017 – Crockham Hill Primary School After 8 years dedicated to food, Jo Banks brings creative recipe ideas...

So today the girls break up from school and the routine all changes as we have a couple of weeks of well earned holidays. Last night we...

Hopefully Christmas cake is made and pudding too, if you make it from scratch.  I have also made homemade mincemeat this year which I...

Our teenage daughter was born in the states, Tennessee to be precise so we used to celebrate Thanksgiving in a big way. It was a good...

These work for any round cheese brie or camembert. Chilli-Pecan Camembert Ingredients: 50 g pecan halves, coarsely chopped 1 fresh...

This was an extremely busy week. Back to normal after half term, and Halloween on a school night, which I can never remember! It didn’t...

Ingredients: 2-3 vacumn packed beetroot 2 ripe bananas 120ml cooking oil 160g coconut cream 275g plain flour 50g cocoa powder 1 tsp...

Ingredients: 175 g unbleached plain flour 2 and ¼ tsp baking powder 3/4 tsp salt 25 g cold butter, small dice 75 g strong cheddar cheese...

It’s been a busy half term with Halloween cookery classes and ‘batty’ baking sessions. We have made ‘mummy sausages’ and spider webb...