I realise I’m a wee bit early to be writing about Halloween but the craving for barmbrack was just too much to bear any longer – I just had to give in and sure why not just blog it now while the recipe was fresh in my memory? I did create rather a stir when [...]
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I was catching up on my ‘mentions’ over on Twitter the other morning when I noticed that the Italian chef Antonio Carluccio was a member on there, naturally I clicked to follow him. Not only did I click the follow button but I clicked the profile button too; a dangerous thing of course as it then [...]
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Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen by Mitch Omer (founder of the original Hell’s Kitchen Restaurants) and Ann Bauer (previous food editor at Minnesota Monthly) is a roller coaster of a book, from recounting Omer’s darker days of addiction and suffering from bipolar disorder to sweet childhood memories inter-spaced with belly rumble inducing recipes of the [...]
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Somehow World Bread Baking Day escaped my event planning this year and as such I’ve rushed to create something for it. It is too good an event to miss out completely. So I have compiled a photo gallery (just click the links to go to the appropriate blog post) of some of my most recent [...]
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Not so long back I joined Twitter, some of you might even have noticed the “follow me” widget in my side bar Twitter is something I’ve put off and put off; do I really need to cram what I’m doing into 140 characters and spout about daily life to the rest of the world? Is [...]
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I know it’s taken me a good while to get around to telling you, my lovely readers, that I visited the Ludlow Food Festival this year. What a delight, a sight to behold indeed. Stand upon stand of fabulous foods, drinks and kitchenalia all set out in the picturesque town centre of Ludlow. It goes [...]
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I must say thank you to Delicious magazine for the inspiration behind last nights recipe creation, mulled wine fruit crumble with clotted cream. I reckon I must be in full crumble mode as it’s only a few days since I made an autumn fruit crumble. I’m putting it down to the cold weather, I enjoy [...]
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Peking Duck or Aromatic Crispy Duck is probably high up on most peoples favourite Chinese take out food. Something complicated and best left to the experts or so I thought until yesterday. Rachel Allen’s lovely new book Home Cooking arrived on my doorstep a few days ago and the Aromatic Crispy Duck Rolls were quickly bookmarked [...]
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