March 2008

March 31, 2008 · 2 comments

Retail Therapy

in Chat

There’s nothing like a bit of shopping to make you feel good is there? Especially when nearly all the goodies are food related. Well that’s exactly what I did today. I visited the historic city of Lichfield and ended up coming home with a real bundle of lovely items, thank goodness for the car I [...]

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March 30, 2008 · 9 comments

I Feel Like Chicken Tonight

in Poultry,Rice,Sides,Vegetarian

Yesterday I bought a huge free range organic Sherwood White Chicken from my local butchers and simply roasted it in the form of Lemon Chicken from Feast: Food That Celebrates Life by Nigella Lawson.   This has to be one of my favourite ways to roast a chicken, especially with side dishes of sticky herby roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese, also [...]

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March 29, 2008 · 10 comments

Have You Ever Seen Someone With Triangular Ears?

in Cakes & Cookies

Purim is celebrated on the 14th of Adar (March) with masquerade parties, listening to the Book of Esther read out in the synagogue and sending “mishloah manot” – packages of goodies – to friends and the needy. In those packages, you will usually find at least a couple of Ozney Haman, known outside of Israel [...]

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March 26, 2008 · 9 comments

Rain! Rain! Rain!

in Bread,My Recipes,Salad,Vegetarian

To say we are now entering the season of Spring and that Easter has just been and gone the weather here in rural Staffordshire has been decidedly awful – snow, hail and rain – but today we have sunshine and warmth. Just the thing to make me crave warm salads and fresh from the oven [...]

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March 25, 2008 · 3 comments

It's Good To Talk

in Chat

Sometimes it’s easy to get tied up focusing on writing topics for this blog and days can go by when I don’t get chance to visit many of my fellow bloggers websites, however, when there I am often left absolutely stunned by the quality of the photography, write-ups and work that has gone into each [...]

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March 24, 2008 · 14 comments

Spring Has Sprung

in Cakes & Cookies,Challenges,Meat,My Recipes,Sides

Time for another Violets Pantry Forum Blog Challenge. March 20th was officially the 2008 commencement of Spring.  Originally Springtime was celebrated as a Pagan festival to honor the Goddess Eostre. Eostre is now commonly believed to be linked to the Greek for frenzy and to spring into life.  Hence the connections to the celebration of [...]

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March 21, 2008 · 9 comments

Éist

in Bread,Meat,Sides

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXAtVLuw1E&hl=en] Do listen to the music linked above, it is a hauntingly beautiful piece of music. Here it is played by The Corrs but the actual music is a traditional Irish piece titled Lough Erin Shore.   By now I bet you’re wondering what on Earth this has to do with food, well it’s simple, [...]

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March 21, 2008 · 4 comments

Time For Tea

in Cakes & Cookies,Produce

A wee while back the lovely Brenda sent me a wonderful book The Best of Irish Breads and Baking: Traditional, Contemporary and Festive by Georgina Campbell.   The book is full of delightful recipes, both traditional and modern with a history behind them too, which is always lovely to read. There are collections of mouthwatering photography dotted throughout as [...]

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March 20, 2008 · 3 comments

Italian Indulgence

in Cakes & Cookies,Chat

I have an amazingly generous set of friends from Violets Pantry, the only one of these friends I’ve so far met is the wonderful Carlotta from Italy. Carlotta had told me I’d be getting an Easter gift but I certainly wasn’t expecting a cake.  Not just any cake I hasten to add but the traditional [...]

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March 19, 2008 · 3 comments

Incredible Baked Pasta

in Pasta,Vegetarian

I absolutely love pasta, in any shape or form providing of course it’s cooked well and remains al dente; my mother however will only eat baked pasta (pasta al forno). So in order to fulfil my craving for carbs in the form of pasta and her likes/dislikes I set about finding another interesting lasagna recipe; I [...]

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March 17, 2008 · 2 comments

Turkish Delight, Well Almost

in Desserts,Meat,My Recipes,Pastry

Last night we had a delightful meal, although it did seem to take forever when I’d hoped it would be quick & easy after a busy morning at work.  Ah well it could (and normally I would) be argued that there is no better way to relax that to potter round the kitchen preparing some [...]

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