The Lemon and Lavender Drizzle Cake is a thing of beauty. The first cake I ever baked successfully when I moved out was a lemon drizzle cake. Since then, I have been experimenting with different lemon cake recipes. This is my current favourite. Lemon and lavender are surprisingly complementary flavours, and I love the look of the scattered lavender flowers. It's a slightly more grown up take on a family staple, and is sure to be a crowd pleaser if you bring it out at a coffee morning. I personally love it as a late night snack - all the…

Superfoods - Are they the solution to pretty much all of your bodily woes? When it comes to our health choices, we all want to be at optimal functioning, having boundless energy and extreme vitality. Even so, we often prefer pleasure over health, poisoning our body with crackers, candy bars or artisanal sodas, or spend our time hunting for diets that in the end have disastrous results for our well-being. But for those who are ready to try something different, without taking the blissful taste of real food off the table, there’s something far more nutritious and potent out there…

It’s an old wives’ tale that eating cheese before bedtime gives you nightmares, but have we ever stopped to consider the science behind this bold claim, and figure out how far this reality is from the truth? Rest assured, the research has been done for you, and some answers have been resolved. According to an experiment carried out by The British Cheese Board (I’m assuming pun intended), eating different kinds of cheeses before sleeping encouraged subjects to have various types of dreams – not nightmares. Cheddar encouraged dreams about celebrities, whilst Red Leicester took people on trips down memory lane…