It’s been another cool and dull day here, the kind to stay indoors as much as possible and what better to do than get some baking done? I knew I hadn’t the need to think about dinner as that was going to be a take-out courtesy of our local Italian place The Bridge, they serve [...]
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The lovely Miriam from Hong Kong inspired dinner tonight, she’d sent me a large pack of lovely noodles along with various other goodies and they were screaming out to be used. Combining these with the new purchase of Chinese Food Made Easy (Ching-He Huang) and the necessity to use up two crabs which I’d defrosted, meant only one thing: Chilli [...]
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Julie Le Clerc is one of my favourite food writers, so imagine my delight when a copy of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly Julie Le Clerc Magazine landed on my doorstep courtesy of the lovely New Zealander Linda. It’s not all that often that I cook from food magazines, or any magazines in general really and I [...]
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Baguettes are fabulous breads; perfect for dunking into hot soup, to encase various sandwich fillings or just eaten warm slathered with top quality butter. I decided to make my own as it’s neigh on impossible to buy good quality ones locally, they’re all so light and lacking in substance, not at all like the ones [...]
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Yesterday I cooked one of my favourite comfort food meals, fish pie, it really is such a nursery classic. You may remember the last time I blogged about a fish pie I’d used a recipe from The Good Granny Cookbook: Traditional Favourites for Modern Familiesby Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, this time I used her son Hugh’s recipe with [...]
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Bread baking has become a bit of a routine here now, I’d say 75% of our bread is home-made, some achievement I think. It’s been a real cost cutter too, despite the initial outlay of buying the different flours and some dried yeast it works out so much less expensive than shop bought bread, for comparison at our [...]
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Old spice, new meal. No I don’t mean I’m after using out of date or past their best spices just that I’ve found a new version of an old favourite and it’s given a whole new twist on a family favourite. Generally I love making my own spice blends, there is something so relaxing about [...]
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Once again tonights evening meal was a race against the clock, although now that my official working week is reduced to two days only this should start to become a thing of the past; for the majority of the time at least Why the rush tonight then? Well my dad doesn’t get home from work [...]
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