RECIPE OF THE WEEK – APPLE AND ALMOND PUDDING CAKE

This is Karen’s successful and easy dessert and her family and friends always love it. It can be served warm or cold and with custard, cream or ice cream. Serves 8 Ingredients 150 g unsalted butter (softened) 125 g caster sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp almond extract 75 g white or whole meal self raising […]

A TASTE OF LISBON, PORTUGAL

This week’s virtual travel journey takes us to Lisbon, Portugal’s hilly, coastal capital city. Lisbon is known for its wide glittering river, limpid skies, steep cobbled streets, palaces, churches (and a castle, of course), tiles in pink, mint and indigo, and cheap, fresh, grilled sardines to eat outside a tasca (bar) in the sun. It’s a […]

A TASTE OF SEVILLE SPAIN

  This week’s virtual travel journey takes us to Seville, the city known for its antique charm, steamy-hot summers and mild winters. Seville is a bijou city with its fabulous food, Gothic and Renaissance architecture, and exotic flamenco rhythms, it never fails but to charm and seduce. History oozes throughout its very pores, with ancient […]

Recipe of the week – CHICKEN AND CHORIZO JAMBALAYA 

Local lady Karen Brooke, enjoys cooking, and has given the readers of Love Goostrey this week some inspiration for a family meal, with her very own dish: CHICKEN AND CHORIZO JAMBALAYA   A Cajun-inspired rice one pot recipe, with spicy Spanish CHORIZO sausage, sweet peppers and tomatoes. This dish is a super easy meal for […]

HEATHLY ME, HEALTHY YOU

Do you need a kick start to motivate yourself during these uncertain times? It can become very easy to forget about fitness and maintain a well balanced diet, maintain wellbeing and emotions. so I have come up with some motivational tips, for anyone that needs a healthy boost: Exercise – take a walk to reduce stress […]