Christmas Food Planning
A few weeks ago I hosted a Christmas food demonstration at my house. I included all the fail safe recipes I have discovered and created over the years to make what I think is the perfect Christmas Day menu. We started off with Beetroot and Gin cured blinis (so easy...
Feeding A Vegetarian Amongst a Family of Carnivores
Feeding A Vegetarian Amongst a Family of Carnivores My daughter Mia, now 14 has been Vegetarian for nearly two years now. She gave up eating meat & fish because of her animal and environmental ethics but if I’m honest even when she was a small child, she never...
Meals from Meals, Leftovers and How To Cheat
Most of you who now know and follow me will hopefully associate my blog with creating nutritious & varied family recipes which don’t require hours of prep and excessive washing up. Some of us quite like pottering around in the kitchen prepping food (I do!) but...
Kitchen Ingredients Staples
I was asked by a few people to create a store cupboard essentials list so that with the addition of fresh ingredients my recipes can be knocked up without the need for a daily visit to the supermarket. So here it is - an inventory of essential pantry semi-perishable...
Meals On The Go
Many parents and workers have asked my advice on how to introduce some variety into packed lunches and teas. Let’s face it there is very little nutritional value in a sandwich and bag of crisps. Our children always moan that fruit goes yucky in their packed lunch...
The Stress Free Dinner Party
How To Do A Stress Free Dinner Party I've spent a lot of time discussing all of the food related issues busy families face. Of course many of these are specific to feeding fussy kids, minimising the time spent in the kitchen cooking and clearing up particularly...
A little more about me…
Yummy & healthy home cooked meals that don’t require hours in the kitchen. That in a nutshell is what Anna's Family Kitchen is all about. I love one pots and one trays and share recipes and tips for simplifying family meal times. I am Anna Stanford and am Mum to...