I am using the brilliant little Rahms croustades again for this Christmas canapé. If you haven't seen them, they tend to be around the biscuit aisle in supermarkets. They are really handy to have in your store cupboard to make a quick canapé and they usually have a really excellent use by date - mine is September 2022! The only down side is that they do tend to go soggy quite quickly, so don't forget to line the cases with either a circle of lettuce, patted dry, or a good

Cauliflower used to be boiled, bland and boring. Something to be avoided at all costs. But in recent years it has experienced a total revamp. Chefs everywhere have reinvented it in many different guises, all the ones I have tasted, totally delicious. There are already a couple of canapé versions on my blog ….. and because I love it so much now, here is another one. Drum roll for Bang Bang Cauliflower - a kind of veggie version of the popular bang bang chicken. Ingredient

These savoury palmiers are really just up market sausage rolls. Quick and easy to make and with less pastry, so a bit healthier as well. They are a great little canapé to have in store as they can be pulled out of the freezer and cooked from frozen in about 20 minutes. Ingredients - makes approximately 45 palmiers 320g pack puff pastry 400g sausage meat (I used 1 pack of 6 Cumberland sausages) 2-3 tsp fennel 75g finely grated parmesan 1 egg Salt and pepper 2 tbsp sesame seeds

With St Nicholas on the horizon in The Netherlands and elsewhere, (6th December), I thought it would be a nice idea to remind my husband of home with a delicious sweet Dutch dish, Poffertjes. In case you haven’t come across them before, they are small fluffy pancakes traditionally served with icing sugar or syrup and they can be eaten at any time, breakfast, lunch or teatime. I didn’t have a special cast iron poffertjes pan, and I wanted things to be easy, so I experimente