Cooking with your children can have many benefits for their development. It is a practical skill that has been passed down for eons. Without knowing how to cook or prepare foods, humankind wouldn’t be able to survive. Aside from teaching the children a useful and practical skill, what other benefits can be derived from the activity?
1. Bonding – A shared experience with your child…
Let’s face it: Moving house is never going to be an easy task and even if you are packing, planning and preparing for months in advance, the chances are that come moving day stress levels will still be running high. If you’re considering relocating to a different city or country, finding the right place to live is crucial. One study puts moving house amongst some of the most stressful life…
Here is my own simple recipe for homemade hummus, a savory dish that is great for dipping pitta bread or raw vegetables. Hummus is incredibly versatile and can be used as a spread as a side dish, or for an aperitivo as well as being a healthy snack for kids after school or even for breakfast.
Ingredients
3 cups chick peas – You can buy the canned ones from any supermarket but for a…
Easter Sunday is about more than Easter eggs but if your children are like mine, they have very little interest in anything else! To introduce them to the idea that Easter Sunday is a day of ancient celebration and feasting, why not create something special to decorate the Easter Table? I like to have all my old favourites on display that day and napkin rings made of felt are a pretty addition to…
Spring is a great time to spend more time outdoor and get the kids a bit muddy exploring nature, mini beasts and creating something amazing too in the garden. I am personally not very good at gardening so rely very much on either my capable husband or on manuals when it comes to creating something new in the garden. A new book called Gardening Lab for Kids has the perfect project for my 7 year old…
You may have seen in the papers a couple of months ago, David Cameron announced a new language plan for UK schools which focuses on ditching French and Spanish in favour of Mandarin classes. On the China tour with Mr Cameron at the time was author, ShaoLan, who has devised a revolutionary new way to read Chinese in our new book Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese.
Recently I was talking about…
We often give for granted lots of the things we do now as women. In order to understand where we are progressing to we need to understand where we came from. On International Women’s Day I attended a very interesting event at City Hall presented by the Deputy Mayor of London, Victoria Borwick, to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War I with authorative speakers hosting a panel…
One a penny, two a penny…..Hot Cross Buns are a real Easter treat for every member of the family. So this year, why not make your own Hot Cross Buns recipe!
This recipe makes 10 buns.
Ingredients:
500g strong plain flour
tsp salt
2tsp mixed spice
2tsp cinnamon
8g sugar
14g easy blend yeast
200ml warm milk
1 large egg, beaten
50ml sunflower oil
125g mixed dried fruits
Paste for Cross:
2tbsp…
The pressure to look slimmer during the summer is huge. It’s all in the perfectly sculpture body image that the media portraits everywhere. It seems we cannot, except we can actually. Over the years I have learnt that acceptance is the best thing to do to live better in my own skin. In fact after I turned the corner of the 40s I have started feeling more confident with my body image (without…
Here is a great RECIPE for Mum’s Amazing Vegan Carrot Cake kindly donated by the Vegan Society and Rebecca from vegansparkles.com.
You don’t need to be Vegan to appreciate this recipe though! I love carrot cake and this seems to be a fairly simple recipe.
Cake
1/4 cup applesauce
1/2 cup vegan margarine
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground…