Adventures of a Cat Lady

  • Chocolate Pine Nut Tart

    I was recently made an honorary Dutch citizen, sounds exciting, right? Yeah, this means I was hit by a car whilst on my bike (if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d literally have no luck at all). Luckily it wasn’t my fault even though the car driver really wanted me to think that it was…

  • Loaded chocolate chip cookies

    I honestly believe in starting off the week right by taking sweet treats to work on a Monday, true story! Mondays are pretty awful and anything you can do to make them better, do it! Ive been doing this for years if not well over a decade now. British colleagues thought it was great and…

  • Southern American Biscuits

    My younger years were spent in the mountains of North Carolina, this is a part of my life that I dont often reflect on. Every time Im back in NC, I always visit Chimney Rock, its  like a ritual and every time the views are more stunning than I remembered, theres something very calming about…

  • DIY Pimp your KitchenAid Mixer with Hello Kitty tutorial

    Even though I am now WELL into my thirties, I still secretly (or not so secretly) love Hello Kitty.  Being a crazy cat lady has a little bit to do with it but I grew up with Hello Kitty and to be fair, she has had very few scandals, making her a rather wholesome character.…

  • Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcakes

    Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcakes

    A few years ago I had an idea to make cupcakes and to make them awesome, so I came up with the following idea:  Sticky Toffee Pudding Cupcakes. A traditionally British desert with a twist and well cupcakes are trendy and everyone loves them, right? I went to several sites and couldn’t find anything to…

  • No Bake Granola Bars

    I love a good granola bar but I really dont love having to pay around the €2 mark for one that looks unappealing and tastes like cardboard. I use to bulk buy them from Costco (being honest, I shipped over with me around 60 Protein Natures Valley bars but Im kind of over them) but…

  • Pumpkin pie from scratch

    This is one of those instances where I happily go to back to my American roots. I scream, you scream…oh wait, no, no, wrong edible reference. Its autumn, the leaves are turning and there is a chill in the air, you see pumpkins in the stores, at the markets and on peoples porches. Yeah, they…

  • Pear Butter

    Have you ever heard of Apple Butter? No? Im not surprised, its a proper southern American delicacy. Its like a spice filled applesauce, no actual butter in it, that you spread on toast. The name comes from its smooth and butter like texture. Its really nice and English people didn’t really get it and used…

  • Comforting Spice Jam

    Comforting Spice Jam

    Following on with my pear theme (please bear with me (AHHHHH, a bear is with me!) as I make my way through my pear recipes, I have gone through kilos of pears, thank you tree!) I decided to make a pear jam. I didn’t want a jam that you eat and think ‘yeah thats pears’,…

  • Pears, pears, pears

    Its the end pear season (and autumn, which actually means that Christmas is JUST around the country, AHHHHHhhhhhhhh) and my pear tree is starting to look sad. I gave away loads of pears and then decided that I should use what I have, whilst greedily thinking that maybe I shouldn’t have given away so many…