The right column looks nice the navigational links and the ad placement is excellent but the left column looks a bit plain I think the site would look better if you added some graphics into the left column.
Thanks for your feedback , as its my mums blog , and all the recipes are her own , its hard to get images of each one as it takes so long to make them. But the ones she does make she will be adding images on.
Nice simple blog, with good content! Good design and easy to naivgate! Best of luck with the site! Kind Regards