December 2008

December 24, 2008 · 11 comments

Merry Christmas

in Chat

Here’s wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!! See you in the new year folks. Share this:

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December 11, 2008 · 13 comments

A Little Note

in Chat

A quick note to say a big thank you to Sally for awarding me with a lovely bunch of virtual flowers, she has an amazing blog about food and one on gardening too, which I’m ashamed to say I don’t visit nearly enough but please don’t follow in my footsteps, do go visit as you won’t be [...]

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December 3, 2008 · 8 comments

When The Express Route Takes A Detour

in Challenges,Meat,Sides

I’m so late posting about this Violets Pantry ‘Nigella Express Challenge’ that I feel I must begin by apologising to the lovely Teresa who set the challenge, other meals and life generally just got in the way of posting about the great choice she made but here is the write up at long last. Teresa chose the [...]

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December 2, 2008 · 4 comments

A Touch Of Cafe Culture

in Cakes & Cookies,Vegetarian

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” William Shakespeare I know I said I’d not be baking quite so much and that I’d overdone the amount of cupcakes recently but I couldn’t stop myself from baking yesterday, I had so much else to do but somehow I found [...]

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December 1, 2008 · 5 comments

Oh Hayley What Have You Started?

in Cakes & Cookies,Vegetarian

A fair while back the lovely Hayley of Away With The Fairy Cakes wrote about “Banana Bread’s Sexy Older Sister” and doesn’t a title like that just make you want to bake them? A few dilemmas put me off baking them until yesterday though; firstly Hayley didn’t like them much and found them bitter but that [...]

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