How to Build a Stress-Free Evening Routine That Sticks A 2024 American Academy of Sleep Medicine study found that people with consistent pre-sleep routines fall asleep an average of 15 minutes faster — and wake up with cortisol levels 23% lower than people who have no routine at all. That’s not marginal. That’s the difference…
7 Reusable Food Storage Containers That Hold Up in 2026 You buy a 20-pack of plastic containers at Target. Six months later, half the lids are warped, two are stained orange from tomato sauce, and the whole stack smells like last Tuesday’s curry. That’s the moment most people start looking at silicone bags, glass sets,…
Spring Cleaning Checklist 2026: Stop Wasting Your Weekend Are you still blocking out the entire weekend for spring cleaning, only to finish Sunday evening exhausted with the oven untouched and the garage looking exactly the same? That was me for years. Not because I wasn’t working hard enough — I was cleaning in the wrong…
Sweet scones get all the attention, but savoury scones are honestly just as wonderful — perhaps more so, because they’re perfectly acceptable at any time of day. This scone round is baked as one large disc and then pulled apart into wedges, which means beautifully soft sides and a crusty golden top. The Gruyère melts…
New Year’s Eve doesn’t always call for champagne and canapés. Sometimes what you really want is a bowl of something warm and grounding after the excesses of Christmas. This parsnip and apple soup is exactly that — sweet, earthy, and deeply comforting. The apple adds a subtle tartness that stops the parsnips from being too…
There are few things more satisfying on a grey November day than a steaming bowl of butternut squash soup. I roast the squash first rather than boiling it — the caramelisation adds a depth of flavour that you simply can’t get any other way. Combined with sage from the garden and a handful of crunchy…
Home made soup takes some beating. Can you believe that I’ve never eaten or made a pea and mint soup, that is until now. As you know I’m a bit of a gadgeteer and this soup was made in my Thermomix but if you’ve bought a soup maker, or are thinking about buying one for…
After all the eating over Christmas a bowl of freshly made soup is perfect. Lets be honest some gadgets we purchase aren’t going to get used as much as we would like but hubby and I love this soup maker. From thinking about making soup to serving up takes all of 30 minutes and my…
This is a soup recipe that I adapt, and mostly cook in a large pan, but now the electric pressure cooker has made an appearance in my kitchen, the very least it can do is to somehow pay for it’s keep. I store it away in a cupboard – the pressure cooker that is –…
A delicious bowl of comforting home made soup with a thick slab of bread and butter takes some beating. Leek and potato soup is quick and simple to make and any that isn’t eaten can be frozen in a strong freezer bag. I made mine in the Instant Pot (electric pressure cooker) and once the…
