The Great Create

A great day creating with 80(ish) crafty ladies, exhausted but on a high x

Photos to follow, in the mean time check out @milliemoonshop @fromemaid @makemeadress

The Great Create!!!

Had a fantastic day creating greatly with 80 (ish) women all giving up their time and pennies for a brilliant charity PAC.
Lovely day, lovely people and think I may be a convert to the the jelly roll!
Photos to follow but follow @fromemaid and @milliemoonshop for more updates and hilarious photos x
Well done to the girls at Millie Moon for organising The Great Create and everyone involved in making the create great!

Rosi's Princess Pasta Sauce

So as we know all princesses are strong, pretty and have beautiful hair - just look at Rapunzal, she lived in a tower and managed to climb out just using her hair, so it goes without saying that to be a princess you must eat like a princess i.s eat all your vegetables and you will be strong, pretty and have Rapunzel like hair!

Today is Rosi's Princess Pasta Sauce, a great sauce that uses up all your left over veg. A sauce that children can also help create and even if they are too young to cook they can help identify the veg as it goes in. So Rosi helped to chop and Kitty put it in the pot (and tried to stir it, although most of it went up the wall!)

Makes loads, so theres plenty over to freeze for later!
1 pepper
1 leek
1 onion
1 courgette
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1 teaspoon of pesto (or make your own - basil, pine nuts, oil, spinach etc)

simply chop all your veg and pop into a big jug
add the tinned tomatoes and stir
heat through till all hard veg is soft
Whiz with a hand held mixer or pop in a soup mixer.
Sauce is done! At this point you can test if it needs anything else, you may want to make it thinner etc (add tomato paste or stock) or you may want to add more veg (cram it in, they'll never know)

The you can add it to cooked pasta, or add cooked mince for the base of spag bol, or lasagnes etc

easy peasy x have fun

Tried and tested freezer cookies -from Rosi &Kittys kitchen

Plan of action for today, freezer cookies! These cookies are so easy to make and can be frozen ahead of time, baked on the day and are just yum. Very handy to keep a few rolls in the freezer incase of unexpected guests. I have substituted the fruit and nuts for various things such as chocolate chips, fresh raspberries and lumps of white chocolate and they still work. Happy baking x Ingredients 175g butter , softened 85g golden caster sugar ½ tsp vanilla extract 225g plain flour 75g pistachios 75g dried cranberries Preparation and cooking times Prep 15 mins Cook 15 mins plus chilling Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract with a wooden spoon. stir in the flour, then tip in the pistachios and cranberries - you might need to get your hands in at this stage to bring the mix together as a dough. Halve the dough and shape each half into a log about 5cm across. Wrap in cling film, then chill for 1 hr or freeze for up to 3 months. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. slice the logs into 1cm-thick rounds, place on a baking tray lined with baking parchment and bake for 12-15 mins. Cool completely on the tray. MAKE AHEAD Well wrapped, these dough logs will happily freeze for up to 3 months, meaning you can include freshly made biscuits in your Christmas hampers without any last-minute effort. Simply defrost in the fridge overnight, then slice and cook as above.

From the Kitchen of Rosi & Kitty - Tarte au Citron

Good morning, todays baking goodness is a classic Tarte au Citron. Its so easy to make that chefs of any age can get involved at all the stages (My chefs are 2 & 3)

Now, i love Mary Berry and she is on a pedestal in my kitchen, however sometimes life is too short to make your own pastry so, sorry Mary, i bought a pre-made sweet pastry base for £1.60!

She's glaring at me now!!

Anyway, so now you only need to make the filling, easy peasy eh!

5 Large free-range eggs
125 ml Double Cream
225g Caster Suger
Finely grated zest and juice of 4 lemons

Pre-heat oven to 160 oc/325 oF/gas 3

Break all the eggs into a bowl and whisk lightly with a wire whisk, add all the other ingredients and transfer into a pouring jug.

Place pasty case onto a tray and slide onto oven rack, now fill your pasty case with the mixture and gently push the rack into the oven.

Bake for 30-35 mins or untill mixture is just set but has a slight wobble to it.

Leave it to cool, remove from tray, place on a pretty plate, icing sugar to dust, make a pot of tea and serve. By this time the sun will be out and you can sit in the garden!

Enjoy x

From the Kitchen of Rosi & Kitty

As a mum of two little ladies, i thought i would start to share some of our edible creations including Dinner ideas, Baking successes and Snack suggestions - this has come about because the girls love to cook and i love to be crafty, and with all this creativity our brains are bursting to share with everyone!

Chicken and Pea Rissotto

Makes four portions for toddlers

1 Chicken breast, cooked (or left over cooked chicken from a roast)

Handful of peas

1 Chopped leek

Small handful of onions

Cup of Arborio rice

2 pints of Water

1 Vegetable Stock cube

(If you have stock readily available, forget the water and the cube and add 200ml of stock)

Dash of Garlic

Dash of oil

Squeeze of Lemon

Heat oil and garlic in a pan, add onions and heat till they colour. 

Add peas and leeks and heat for 2 minutes. 

Add arborio rice and heat gently for 2 minutes.

Ladle at a time, add the stock, letting the rice soak it up before adding the next ladle. 

Once all the stock is in the pan, add the chicken and heat through for 20 minutes. If rice looks like it needs more liquid at any point, add a dash of boiling water.

Add a squeeze of Lemon and stir through.

Serve warm with a sprinkling of Parmesan on the top.

Very easy and if you make a batch you can freeze portions for another night. 

Happy cooking x

Cake and Craft events

Good evening, following the success of a Hen party we held last week we would like to offer this service to one and all.


Cake and Craft events are ideal for baby showers, birthdays, hen parties and the like; they are approximately 3 hours long during which time you will be taught how to make your own fabric corsage, you and your guests are then able to create your own and the time includes Tea and Cake served in vintage cups and saucers.


Cake and Craft can be held anywhere and are available for 4 to 10 persons, all fabric and craft equipment is provided as is the cake! No prior experience of sewing needed, its open to one and all x

Cake and Craft events start at just £10 per person and price may vary due to location. If you are interested you can email: dufflebobble@googlemail.com or give Jane or Emma a call on 07855949706.