Salsa chicken. For reals.

Always rushing, always multi tasking, always hungry.

Don't cry, we're all just mums.

I'm tired of reading blogs written by perfect mums, who juggle a high flying career with a model house, entertaining numerous guests with flawless haute cuisine. dressing their model babies in designer clothes and never a single hair out of place.

Oh it's not difficult, it's all in the preparation. Oh this? I just knocked it up while Marmaduke was at baby yoga. Haha darling, I wear heels all the time - wouldn't want my husband to see me in a state!

NO. It is BLOODY DIFFICULT.

Five easy starters/snacks/canapes

My other half does like to drop me in it where entertaining is concerned. I get home from work, get the dogs walked, children to bed, iron on ready to tackle the usual mountain range of school uniforms, work shirts, tshirts.... and he announces that friends will be here shortly. For dinner. For drinks. For something I am utterly unprepared for.

The perfect chocolate brownie

MOIST. It's a filthy sounding word, but definitely the one I like to use to describe my brownies! Nothing worse than a cakey, dry lumpy thing that feels like sawdust in your mouth and makes swallowing feel like medieval torture. The following recipe can only be described as utterly filthy and waistline destroying. My idea of heaven!