Although I love cooking with the kids I also like making things myself in the kitchen and Halloween is the perfect time to try out some of the cookie ...
Real food for families
"The Best Memories are made...
Gathered around the Table"
Home cooked food with real ingredients, help families connect, children learn about eating healthy and provide great memories as a family.
Whether it's treats, after-school snacks, mid-week meals or celebrating together these home-cooked recipes are tried and tested by our family fussy eaters and perfected by our own hands.
Easy White Chocolate Fudge Recipe with Candy Corn for the Saucepan or Slow Cooker
We do love our fudge here in the Rainy Day Mum house. The easier to make the better! Our slow cooker fudge recipe is a favourite to share with friends ...
Traditional Easy Apple Crumble Recipe
The weather has suddenly turned here in the UK and I'm digging out our delicious family desserts and making some of our favourites. This traditional ...
Cherry Pie Cheesecake Brownie Bars
On our walk to school during the last few weeks of term, we passed under some cherry trees. The fruit was just becoming ripe and then school broke up ...
Pumpkin Crumble Muffins with Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipes
If there are just two sweet things I could eat it would be muffins and crumble. I'm not sure during the autumn I could decide which so finding ...
Spiced Cupcakes with Cinnamon Butter Cream and Apple Pie Topping
It's that time of the year when our tree is full of apples as are the local farm shops and my kitchen starts its season of smelling of cinnamon and ...
Basic Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
Without a doubt I love Chocolate, and I love cupcakes. I make them for birthdays, treat and if I think that everyone in the family could do with a ...
Family Meal Ideas
One of the most important times of the day for us as a family is sitting down for a meal together in the evening. A long time ago we made the decision ...
Easy Homemade Tomato Meat Sauce for Pasta
One of our favourite easy family meals to make is pasta with a tomato meat sauce. It's quick and easy and tastes richer and more flavoursome than from ...
Back to School Lunch Ideas for Busy Mums
Although breakfast is the most important meal of the day and we've given you plenty of options to choose from with our School Day Breakfast Ideas for ...
Delicious Bahamian Grilled Chicken Breasts
One of the reasons that I love summer so much is that I cook a lot less than I would in the winter. Not because we don't eat or we eat out but because ...
Easy Very Hungry Caterpillar Cupcakes
Very When I made our Apple Back to School Cupcakes last year my youngest said something that clicked and I've been meaning to make for ages. She said ...
Delicious Homemade Greek Tzatziki Recipe
There is one thing that I love eating during the summer and that is tzatziki. I love the freshness of this easy dip and combined with salad and some ...
Chalkboard Cupcakes
We all love receiving homemade gifts, and edible gifts have always been a favourite. One of the things that I like to gift the teachers in our kid's ...
Delicious Family Camping Recipes for your First Family Camping Trip
There is nothing better than food cooked over the campfire and when we look for campsites now we try and find ones that let you have a campfire so ...
Easy Guacamole Recipe to Cook with Kids
One of our favourite meals to sit down and share as a family is Fajitas - we make our own fajita spice and either use or freezable sheet pan chicken ...
Classic Farmhouse Fruit Cake Recipe
One of my favourite cakes (you can have more than one) is a traditional fruit cake. My mum and my grandmothers had their favourite recipes and over ...
Quick and Easy Hummus Recipe
With the weather finally playing ball in the UK and our garden with a lawn I took my own advice and decided to have a little get together with some ...
Quick and Easy Summer Appetisers to Make in Under 30 Minutes
We have decided this year now we finally have a lawn in the garden as well as a patio that we're going to have some summer parties with friends and ...
Traditional Lemon Cordial Recipe
Sitting on my bookshelf is my Great Grandmothers book - the News Chronicles 1936 (ish) publication Everything within, a guide to being a housewife and ...
Halloumi and Chorizo Kebabs with a Simple Lime Dressing
It's BBQ time in the UK and although I do love burgers and chicken on the BBQ this year we're mixing it up a little bit especially as my youngest is ...