June 2008

June 29, 2008 · 36 comments

Danish Delight

in Cakes & Cookies,Challenges,Desserts,Vegetarian

My first month as a Daring Baker, so exciting The Daring Bakers groups is run by Ivonne and Lis, who both have fabulous blogs, do check them out please. The aim of the group is to challenge bloggers to push their baking comfort zone boundaries, and believe me they do. Take for example this months [...]

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June 26, 2008 · 6 comments

It's A Dogs Life

in Cakes & Cookies,Vegetarian

Murphy our Irish Setter has always been rather picky about his food, he must take after his owners LOL, so many, many puppy foods were bought, tried and mainly not eaten.  A great worry for us, especially when at his age he’s growing so rapidly and his diet would have great impact on his health [...]

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June 23, 2008 · 13 comments

Mmm … Canada

in Cakes & Cookies,Challenges,Chat,My Recipes,Vegetarian

It’s that time of the month again, Sugar High Friday time and this month the challenge has been set by the event owner. OK so what’s the challenge involve for June?  Well it has to be something sugar high inducing and has to involve a typically Canadian product or recipe. To quote the Domestic Goddess [...]

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June 21, 2008 · 11 comments

My Big Fat Greek Dinner

in Bread,Meat,Pasta

Apologies firstly for the corny title, but hey it’s good to have a bit of fun isn’t it and poetic licensee and all that Last night we had Nigella Lawson’s Greekish Lamb Pasta from How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food, (which, side tracking here, is actually shown in the Nigella Bites TV series) although I’d cooked [...]

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June 16, 2008 · 14 comments

Getting To Know One Another

in Chat

The lovely Niamh from Eat Like A Girl has tagged me. Here are the rules: Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share six random and/or weird things about yourself. Tag six random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each [...]

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June 13, 2008 · 15 comments

Alchemy

in Bread,My Recipes

Bread baking to me is a form of alchemy – flour and water combining to give the ‘gold’ of the culinary world, lovely fresh bread. Bread is a dietary staple in many of the world’s cultures. At its simplest, bread is a combination of flour and water, perhaps with salt and a little fat added. [...]

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June 9, 2008 · 16 comments

Naughty But Nice

in Cakes & Cookies,My Recipes,Vegetarian

Here’s my latest baking recipe, Butterscotch & Cream Cheese Brownies, right before they hit the oven; so pretty don’t you think? I just love brownies and I’ve tried loads of different recipes; some good, some amazing and some downright dreadful but there’s nothing like the satisfaction of creating your own recipe and it working out [...]

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June 7, 2008 · 23 comments

Simple Indian Feast

in Meat,My Recipes,Rice,Sides,Vegetarian

Simple Indian (Atul Kochhar) has been sitting on my bookshelf for over 12 months now and I’m most ashamed that until today I hadn’t cooked from it.  That’s an awful shame as the book is full of mouthwatering recipes from across the whole of India, with many enticing photos too.  As promised by the books title [...]

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June 7, 2008 · 2 comments

Mentor?

in Chat

How nice it is to be handed another award; this time from my friend Sally for supporting her in the early stages of her blog.  I feel incredibly honoured to receive the award, especially as I don’t really feel I did all that much to mentor her, other than convince her of the need to [...]

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June 1, 2008 · 20 comments

Sweet & Simple Bakes

in Cakes & Cookies,Challenges,Vegetarian

Sweet & Simple Bakes is a new blog from the lovely Maria and Rosie which is aimed at newbie bakers or experienced bakers who just love to bake. The blog will have a monthly challenge but does not require every months challenge to be completed, just dip in and out as and when. If you haven’t [...]

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