I don’t know whether it’s down to the weather this year – very wet spring and weeks of hot and dry conditions during the middle of summer – but my curly kale is doing incredibly well. I love having it instead of cabbage to complement a roast dinner with loads of roast potatoes and parsnips and oodles of gravy It takes no more than 5 minutes to cook on the hob in a few spoonfuls of simmering water. But surely there must be more to this pretty, frilly leafed green vegetable

Do you know that making doughnuts at home is easy? It is if you follow this simple recipe for making homemade donuts. Mother use to make them for us when we were small children. We learned how to make them as well. Sharing the recipe here that she found useful all those years ago so, you and your family can enjoy making them as well as enjoying them yourself.

A marble cake is a cake with a streaked or mottled visual appeal (like marble) reached by very frivolously blending light-weight and darkish batter.[one] It can be a combination of vanilla and chocolate cake, in which situation it is generally vanilla, with streaks of chocolate. Other prospects are strawberry or other fruit flavors, or (particularly in marbled coffee cakes) cinnamon and/or other spices.