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Bonfire Night (5 November) is one of those uniquely British celebrations where the glow of fireworks is matched by the warmth of comfort food. This year, turn your Guy Fawkes night gathering into a showcase for sustainable cooking. Instead of buying in lots of nibbles, look at what’s already in your kitchen: stale bread, vegetable trimmings, last night’s […]
The latest baking trend shaking up 2025 isn’t about pristine fondant or slick buttercream — it’s about embracing the mess. In Pinterest’s 2025 trends forecast, chaos cakes are all about over-the-top, joyful decoration where “more is more” and rules are there to be broken. This year, we’re giving the trend a spooky seasonal twist — Halloween
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This Fall/Autumn Activities, Crafts and Food Roundup is a showcase for all my favourite Autumn things to do with kids and as a family. One of the things I love best about where I live is the distinct change in seasons and being able to celebrate what those seasons bring and mean. Autumn here is
We first made hairy hot dogs or scary spaghetti back in 2009 (just look at how cute and small Maxi was back in 2009) and they have become an annual Halloween tradition here in The Mad House. They are super fun to make and something that the boys can make on their own now they are
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Kids love baking, it is kind of magical how those ingredients can make something so delicious and cooking with kids is a great activity. We love these spider web cupcakes, as they are simple to make and easy for kids to decorate too. Oh and they are super cute for Halloween too!
As a family we love picnics and just because the weather is cooler in Autumn and Winter it doesn’t mean that picnicking has to stop. No indeed for us it just means that we move to more warming food and sometimes we have them inside on a rug and sometimes we have them sat in
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We live in a new build house, well I say new build, it was when we moved in eight years ago. One of the first things we did to our garden was plant an apple tree. We have watched that tree grow each year hoping for apples and finally this year we got more than
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We were given a bag full of pears from my wonderful sister in law, off the tree in their garden at the social club. Now the mini’s love pears and ate lots, but I wanted to do something with the rest of them to remind us of Autumn all through the dark and cold winter
