Bake with Tory

What do you do when you start a recipe and realise you don’t have the main ingredient!!! !!!

Don’t panic 😱 improvise, so tonight for my chicken tray bake I needed paprika so I substitute with chipotle and actually tasted yummy not scrap left.

Win win, I love a tray bake 😍😍😍😍

Banquet fit for a King 🤴

Friday inspiration!!!🌟🌟🌟🌟

I don’t know about you but by the time I get to Friday, I’m ready to relax with a glass of wine at the end of the day!!! 🤣🤣

I’m here to share my biggest time saver for delicious meal ideas 💡

Embrace sheet pan/one pot dishes. Not only are these recipes often faster and easier to cook, but they also reduce the number of pans you get dirty, which saves you clean-up time

Chicken, sweet potatoes 🍠 and veg with a little olive oil and herbs all cook together to give a delicious family dish.

Only one pan total win 🌟🌟🌟💜
Give this a go this weekend and let me know how it works for you👍👍

Do you ever feel overwhelmed when shopping?
My top five tips to keep you on track so you only get what you need and keep to your budget.

Give me a 👍 if this has been helpful

Easter is a time for families and time together. We have had a wonderful time together, however, anyone else with me are you ready for routine back in your life!!
My cupboards are bare and the kids are board!!!! Roll on back to school 🤣🤣💜💜

Are you a plate warmer?
Restaurants warm plates before serving them to help the food maintain its temperature on its way to the customer's table.
Warm plates will keep the food warmer longer, whereas dishes that are cooler than the food will absorb the food's heat, and the temperature will drop immediately.
I always warm my plates it's not absolutely essential that plates be warmed before serving food, but it's a nice touch.
It helps keep food warm longer on the plate, and it's especially helpful for things like pasta that tend to get cold quickly.
Give me a thumbs up de if you warm your plates?

Who else loves dressing the table for Easter 🐣
I keep something the girls make every year and add to my Easter Tree.

Share with me your Easter traditions

Happy Easter hope you have a wonderful family time 🐣

🍀🍀Happy St Patrick's Day 🍀🍀

When I worked in New York gosh 20 years ago I went to the best St Patrick's Day parade, everything was green lots of fun 🍀
Here is my fun twist on for
Easy to make and taste delicious
Gorgeous moist cupcakes great to make with the children as taste amazing and lots of fun to make
Drop me a picture of your fun St Patrick inspired cakes
Follow link in bio to get recipe or
https://mclarenskitchen.Ipages.co/recipe-guide-for-baking-with-children/

Ok hands up 🙌

Who finds themselves flying here there and everywhere and getting dinner done is a logistical nightmare by Wednesday!!!

I hear you, one thing I am totally grateful for is the nights getting lighter more time to get things done.

My macaroni cheese and sausage and peppers is just perfect for those nights when everyone is home at different times, great fresh out the oven, even better warmed up 💜💜💜

Follow me for more meal ideas 🔗

Be ready for anything!!! With all the snow fallen over the day we have just lost our electricity!!!
So tonight cooking a hearty cottage pie by candlelight 🕯️

What are you cooking on this cold Friday night?

Hopefully we may get electricity soon you don’t realise how dependent we are on it!!!

Happy Friday

A well organised and fully stocked storecupboard may feel daunting to achieve at first, but over time it will help ease the stress of making midweek meals.

When your budget and time is tight, you’ll be able to rustle up a satisfying storecupboard recipe – no matter how many mouths you need to feed.

Keep your storecupboard well stocked with canned food, basic ingredients and long life products so you’ll always have a budget-friendly meal to hand.

Would you like more information on what to keep in your store cupboard?

Valentine LIVE bake
I’ll be live in the group at 10am (just keep refreshing your screen until you see the livestream pop up)

We’re going to be showing you how to make some delicious treats for Valentine’s Day ❤️

Are you joining live?
Sign up to the group in my bio link

So excited to announce this Sunday 12th Feb 2023 at 11am I will be doing a LIVE bake with Tory. Join me to learn how to make some gooey chocolate brownie gifts for someone special this Valentine’s Day ❤️
Follow the link in my bio to join and I will send you recipe so you can get ready for LIVE bake this Sunday.
Comment below ⬇️ with a heart if you are in ❤️


https://mclarenskitchen.lpages.co/bake-with-tory-free-valentine-challenge/

National Carrot Cake Day, 😍😍😍😍this is one of my favourite cakes. So moist and delicious totally the best cake with a cup of tea 🫖
Carrots contain a natural sweetness that's just perfect for cake. Many historians believe the cake originated in the Middle Ages when sugar and other sweeteners were scarce. (Carrots were used as a substitute.) 🥕
Who needs to cook a carrot cake this weekend? 🥕🥕🥕🥕
Give me a golden 🥕 in comments below as a YES 👏

I love home made gifts they are so special💜
Keep watching this space for my put the LOVE back in Valentine’s Day challenge!

Homemade lasagna one of my all to@e favourite 🤩
Everyone has a family trick to making their lasagne taste amazing.🤩 what’s yours?
Comment below ⬇️

How sad am I just bought a NEW Garlic crusher!!!!! Is it bad that I love buying cooking utensils 🤣💜

I have to admit you do not need lots of kit to cook and bake but one thing I can’t live without is a garlic crusher as my knife skills are not good enough to cut it as fine as you need and it makes using garlic a breeze and your hands don’t end up stinking of garlic 🧄

Come on let me know the o e item in your kitchen you can not live without?

How confident would you be to let your 12 year old make dinner?
So tonight I phoned Robynne an hour away from home to ask her to start dinner.
Sausage and broccoli pasta bake in tomato sauce.
She did amazing chopped the sausages, browned them, added the garlic, oregano 🌿 tin of tomato 🍅 chicken stock.
Boiled the pasta, added it all together and added cheese 🧀

Was so lovely to walk in from a long day at work to dinner with the family.

So important to start young with confidence in the kitchen

What have you made with your leftover Turkey? Love a pie 🥧 😍

The next two weeks i absolutely love. Getting everything ready for Christmas 🎄 and doing lots of fabulous Christmas bakes with the girls.

Who loves a ginger bread house? 😍
Would you like to learn how to make one?
Give me a Santa face 🎅if you would like to hear more?

Happy International Farmers Day.

I’m so grateful to be part of the farming community, it’s hard work, lots of elements are against them, but I love the tenacity, longevity and how adaptable this community is.

This year we had the fastest harvest ever due to the heat, some experience fires 🔥 and the cost to grow or feed the animals are growing, but one thing will be for sure we will adapt and drive forward, bringing top quality, highest of standards to make sure the food produced in the UK is of the highest quality.
I know everyone is feeling the pinch but remember buy local and support your community.

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
The simple loved chocolate cake can be turned into delightful Halloween treat 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

Halloween biscuits 🍪 🎃👻 when the internet goes out then time to get baking!!!
Back to basics who loves getting in the kitchen with the kids?

activities

Swiss meringue butter cream v normal icing sugar butter cream?
Discuss!!!!

I totally love Swiss meringue buttercream so light and fluffy and totally decedent

What’s your favourite?

I love Autumn 🍂 my favourite time of year to cook, such wonderful ingredients 😍

My favourite soup Pumpkin 🎃

What’s your favourite soup 🥣

My favourite tomato soup. Perfect for autumn 🍂 evenings.

As part of my kids can cook course I teach how to make the perfect soup to share.

My course closes tonight so pop along and sign up ⬆️

National Get Kids in the Kitchen Week 12th September

To encourage as many children to get in the kitchen the 12th September I am running a Challenge

👩🏻‍🍳👨🏻‍🍳 FREE READY STEADY BAKE WITH TORY CHALLENGE 🥄

It’s so important to get children in the kitchen

it gives
🧑‍🍳Confidence
🧑‍🍳independence
🧑‍🍳promotes creativity

Want to have fun and learn some new skills and recipes and maybe win some
Prizes!!!!!

Join the girls and I

On Monday 12th September , I will kick off FREE Get kids in the Kitchen Bake with Tory Challenge and everyone is super welcome to join in! 💖

It’s completely free, there’s some great prizes to win and it includes one live cook-alongs that you can join in with or watch on catch-up 👀

Here’s the schedule for the Challenge👇🏻

To sign up, simply click on the link 👍🏻

https://mclarenskitchen.lpages.co/lets-get-kids-in-the-kitchen-week-bake-with-tory-free-challenge-/

🌟 Get kids in the Kitchen Bake with Tory Challenge Schedule 🌟

🥄 Monday 12th September- 7.30 pm. Welcome and introduction to the Challenge

🥄 Wednesday 14th September- 6.00p.m. Live Cook-Along making Sticky Toffee Pudding

🥄Thursday 15th September- 6.00pm Announcement of the Challenge Tasks

🥄Saturday 17th September- 8:00p.m. Deadline for uploading Challenge entries

🥄 Sunday 18th September - 6:00p.m. - Online celebration and awards ceremony

Lets Get Kids in the Kitchen week Bake with Tory Free Challenge - Its so Important to get our children cooking as it creates Confidence and skills which will last them a lifetime. I am so passionate to teach kids these skills!

Picking fruit this morning for an inspiration to her baking.

I love this time of year so many fruits available to forage 💕

It so important to let your children have a go at creating their own recipes.

There is still time to join my challenge End of summer bake
Take a look at the link in my bio

All set for my LIVE end of summer bake challenge!

Hope you got all your ingredients ready.
Still time to join you can catch up, great prizes follow the link in my bio👍

👩🏻‍🍳👨🏻‍🍳 FREE READY STEADY BAKE WITH TORY SUMMER HOLIDAY CHALLENGE 🥄

Running out of activities to keep the kids entertained this holiday? 🤔

We’ve got you covered! 👋

On Friday 26th August , I am kicking off our FREE Bake with Tory Summer Challenge and everyone is super welcome to join in! 💖

It’s completely free, there’s some great prizes to win and it includes one live cook-alongs that you can join in with or watch on catch-up 👀

Here’s the schedule for the Challenge👇🏻

To sign up, simply click on the link 👍🏻

https://mclarenskitchen.lpages.co/ready-steady-bake-with-tory-free-challenge/

🌟 Bake with Tory Summer Challenge Schedule 🌟

🥄 Friday 26th August - 5:00p.m. Welcome and introduction to the Challenge

🥄 Saturday 27th August - 2:00p.m. Live Cook-Along making chocolate muffins

🥄 Sunday 28th August - 10:00am Announcement of the Challenge Tasks

🥄 Tuesday 30th August - 8:00p.m. Deadline for uploading Challenge entries

🥄 Wednesday 31st August - 6:00p.m. - Online celebration and awards ceremony