The Mum Files began with something simple – a collection of recipes.

But not just any recipes.

The kind scribbled in old notebooks, passed down without measurements, and remembered more by feeling than by instruction. The kind that carry stories.
I’ve spent years gathering these recipes – from family, from old cookbooks, and from moments in my own kitchen – and somewhere along the way, I realised they were never just about food.

They were about people.

The meals we grew up with.
The traditions we didn’t realise we were keeping.
The small, everyday moments that quietly become memories.

As a mum of a big, blended family, food has always been at the centre of everything – birthdays, busy nights, celebrations, and all the in-between moments of ordinary life.

Some recipes here come from my childhood.
Some I made for my own children.
And some are new, but already finding their place in our story.

Over time, this space has also grown into a place for slower, homegrown living – gardens, herbs, and the simple comfort of making things by hand.

Alongside the recipes, you’ll also find pieces of family history – names, stories, and fragments of the lives that came before us. Because those stories matter just as much as the food.

This space is my way of keeping it all together.
A place for the recipes, the memories, and the people behind them.