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Easy Christmas Dinner
Does the thought of cooking Christmas dinner bring you out in cold sweat? Don’t panic, I have a great solution. This is a meal that a friend and I prepared for Thanksgiving a…
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Salt&Caramel Tear And Share Bread
Cinnamon, sugar, bread – is it just me or does this sound like the elusive Monkeybread? If you don’t know Monkeybread, you are missing a treat. A friend introduced me to Monkeybread, an…
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Chicken Pie with Potato and Celeriac Topping
This is an adaptation to my Chicken Pot Pie recipe. It tasted so good, I thought I would share it with you. Parboil potatoes – 3 or 4 middle-sized ones will do –…
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Easy One-Pot Chicken and Ham Pie
This is my standard meal when we have visitors, One-Pot Chicken and Ham Pie. It looks impressive but is actually very easy. 15 mins prep, which you can do in the afternoon. When…
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Roasted Pork and Late Summer Veg Casserole with Thomas Crosby Muffins
This is a recipe that I made up today to use up some of the veg that we have left over this week. Regular readers know that we have signed up for a…
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Are you a Pot Saver or a Pot Slattern?
If you had asked me this earlier today, I would have had no idea what you were talking about. Now, thanks to the wonder of Mumsnet I know what a Pot Saver is,…
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Banana Cupcakes with Caramel Fleur de Sel
When I renamed the blog, I decided that I would make Salted Caramels and perhaps use the photos for the blog logo. Easier said than done, I discovered. When I searched for a…
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon Cookies and Easy Chicken & Ham Pie
It has rained today. Warm rain, it has to be said, so still preferable to Scottish rain, but rain all the same. Our dog sniffs at the door, toddles along the side of…
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Store Cupboard Quick Meals
Sometimes I just cannot be bothered cooking. I have no inspiration, no initiative, null bock (as my German husband would say). When this happens, I open the cupboards and the fridge and have…
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The BEST Carré d’Agneau recipe ever
Or if you are being less poncy, “Rack of Lamb”. I prefer to say Lamb Carré as it sounds more exotic, less pedestrian. And this is definitely not a pedestrian recipe. About a…
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Cooking For Vegetarians
I am going to admit that I am not a great fan of vegetables. Or rather, I like veg but I love meat and a meal for me pretty much always includes some…
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Salmon en Croûte
This was adapted from a Jamie Oliver’s recipe, in the Ministry Of Food book. I blogged recently about the E Coli outbreak in Germany, and my decision to start buying local food. Next…
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Quick Homemade Pizza
Living in a small village has advantages and disadvantages and one of the down sides is the lack of take-out. We do have a pizzeria in the next village, but by the time…
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Healthy Banana Muffins – No Eggs
I did not intend to make “healthy” cakes today but I had run out of eggs and fancied making banana muffins. When I looked for a recipe, I came across this one on…
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Breakfast Ideas
Last week I blogged about my Special K experience, so this week I am exploring different ideas for healthy and filling breakfasts. Like many people, I function better on a full stomach in…
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Easy Homemade Bread
It is not as time consuming as you may think. The recipe I use is simple, quick and easy to prepare. I use American cups – I bought a set of cups as…
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Quick and Easy Salmon Coulibiac – inspired by Hairy Bikers
This is one of my OMG,-forgot-to-defrost-something-for-dinner-what-can-we-have-meals. It was inspired by the Hairy Biker’s recipe but is made from store cupboard and freezer ingredients. From start to finish, including baking time this recipe takes…
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How to make friends and bake fabulous Fairy Cakes
The good thing about blogging (and twitter, not to mention Mumsnet) is that you can ask any question and you generally receive an answer. Whether you are looking for relationship advice, ideas for…
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Birthday Cake for Football Fan
My daughter helps to sieve the sugar – still in PJs This week my son reached the grand old age of 6 years old. For the past few weeks he has been avidly following…
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Baking Rugelach
Today I tried my hand at Rugelach, a festive Jewish treat. They look a bit like croissants but are made with cream cheese and sour cream. The rounds of dough are cooled…
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Bier, Bratwurst and Brezeln – the perfect combination
A Good German Housewife should be able to make Brezeln. Really? Well, normally a Good German Housewife (or at least a Bavarian one) knows where to buy decent Brezeln. Not so easy when…
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Baking Soda Bread Rolls – an experiment
After recently discovering how easy Soda Bread is to make, I decided this morning to attempt to make Soda Bread Rolls. Not out of any Domestic Goddess tendancies, but MrT had left to…
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Rolls for breakfast
I am feeling rather smug this morning after baking rolls for the first time. They look delicious, lets hope they taste as good.
