Lauren Gemmell

Food, Fitness, and Technology

Tag: seasonal

Apple and Sultana Buns

Although I am not immune to a little Christmas excitement in late October – I am already thinking about how to ice my Christmas Cake this year and if I can hand make Christmas Decorations to give out as gifts. I feel it is still to early for those heavy Christmas spices, ginger, allspice, cloves etc and you need to ease yourself in gently with some autumnal cinnamon first!

Strawberry Tart Recipe

Last August I made a batch of 4 strawberry tarts. It’s taken me a while to write them up 🙂

Fresh Cream Strawberry Tart

I’ve always loved a fresh cream strawberry tart, topped with that gloopy sweet glaze and fresh strawberries (that haven’t been frozen first).

When looking for Strawberry tart recipes getting the proper glaze was the hardest part, as they are almost always listed as jam / preserve based glaze. This is not what I had from local bakeries growing up, and was never going to replace my Tesco strawberry tart habit!

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Asparagus Omelette

Another embarrassing first on Coffee Muffins – this omelette is the first successful omelette that I have ever made.

Asparagus Omelette

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Asparagus Salad

If you are new to my blog you may want to subscribe to the CoffeeMuffins RSS Feed or follow me on twitter. I tend to focus on quick healthy dinners, and not-so-healthy muffins and sweets 🙂 Enjoy!

Some things you just don’t want to muck around with too much. When you have wonderful, fresh, local, seasonal produce there isn’t a lot you need to do.

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