With Easter just around the corner, Mybaba.com?s Leonora Bamford and Nanny Anita put together some creative family activities, recipes and Easter Crafts to keep you busy all holiday…
I love everything about this time of year and in particular, spring bulbs and newborn lambs prancing in the fields.  After the year we have all had, it?s nice to have a glimmer of hope and be surrounded by new life as we head towards the Easter period. As well as getting busy with Easter crafts this year, we’re getting more creative in the kitchen, too.
I love cooking with the children and something we have been doing lots of coming out of winter, are nice, light risottos with a green salad.  My daughter I are obsessed with a simple lemon one, but I absolutely love Mimi Bowl?s pea risotto with fresh mint from the garden. Mimi Bowl’s Pea Risotto Recipe

 
Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

1 onion, peeled and chopped

150g risotto rice

500ml homemade stock (or no added salt stock), warmed in a pan

100g frozen peas

Parmesan, finely grated to serve (optional)

Method

Melt the butter and heat the olive oil on a low heat; add the onion and gently soften for around 10 minutes until translucent.
Next add the rice and stir into the onion, olive oil and butter until every grain of rice is well coated.
Add a ladleful of the warm stock at a time, and keep stirring. Once the liquid is absorbed repeat, until the risotto has absorbed all th...