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The Perils of Slow Cooking
It’s easy right? Slow cooking I mean; Stick a load of stuff in a pot and set the switch to low. Walk away and come back 8 hours later to a delicious creation of tender meat and juicy loveliness. Well...
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Lamb Parmentier
Ooooh I’m so busy! Look at my Outlook calender – I can’t possibly meet you until next Wednesday…I’m in demand. People need me! What am I going on about? Work. People at work who define their...
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Pork and Apricot Parcels – How I can blog this stuff and still lose weight…
How many of you foodies out there worry about your weight? Are you one of the lucky ones who, with the more you eat, the less you weigh? Or are you one of the silent masses, where every tasty morsel...
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Trifle! And How It Can Help You Stay Connected With Your Children.
This weekend we visited one of my sisters’ homes and celebrated my oldest niece’s birthday. The event highlighted for me the inevitability of growing up and getting older. The third generation of my...
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Salmon Quiche and Why I Don’t Give a Monkey’s Arse About Soggy Bottoms
For those intimately acquainted with the Great British Bake-Off, the term ‘soggy bottom’ will be familiar. For those who aren’t, let me explain. It doesn’t refer to an unpleasant incident following a...
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Monkey Magic – Red Braised Ginger Pork Belly with Pickled Chillies
A while ago Conor Bofin (he of the man meat) posted about monkfish and linked it to a distant TV program called ‘Kung Fu’, starring David Carradine (I could right now go off on a random tangent about...
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Why I love France – Beef Kebabs and Chocolate Coconut Mousse
So this week has been eventful – a few days off in Provence, southern France, enjoying sun, heat and food, courtesy of the in-laws, (A major food discovery in Aix was melon served up by my...
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Fillet Steak in Madeira Sauce with Risotto – the...
So now that I am in my 43rd year thoughts of mortality loom. Eat less. Move more. That’s the secret to a longer life. But I might be wasting my time. To quote Michael Fitzpatrick (I’m not convinced I...
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Adventures in Barbequing – Baked Sweet Potatoes With Chipotle Chilli Butter
A couple of weeks ago we rescued our gas-fired barbecue from my parents house where it had been settling nicely into a moss covered wall. It had been there, unused, for 2 years; the insides and gone...
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Guest Post! The Mrs Makes Carrot Cake
Well, you know, this blogging community thing has kind of got me thinking. I should be more inclusive. Be part of the action. Get out of my ivory tower. It’s all me, me , me. All that jazz. So for this...
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Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake
Summer has finally turned up. The doom-mongers and naysayers had been telling us that due to some spots on the sun we are in fact in the middle of a ten year cycle of damp and windy summers. Well they...
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Heatwave! Time for Herby Coconut Rice with Mango Plus Lots of Flesh
We have a heat wave coming this weekend in sunny Blighty. The Met Office recommends staying indoors (to avoid the sun), turning off non-essential electrical items (they generate heat) and closing the...
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Wendy Burgers – When Meat and Math(s) Collide
You can’t get Wendy Burgers in the UK. ‘OMG!’ I hear you yell at your PC/Laptop/Mobile Device. No Wendy Burgers. No square burgerage. I’ve always been intrigued as to why Wendy Burgers are square....
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Roasted Vegetable Pastry Slice
I’ve always been fascinated by the human condition. What’s that supposed to mean, I hear you ask. Well rather than explain myself with some psychobabble (I could do that you know. I could write a load...
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Giant Jaffa Cake!
Jaffa Cakes. Those little morsels of joy are brimming with benefits: orangey spongy chocolaty low fat (yes only 1g of fat per disc) dunkable moreish They even cause controversy. Several years ago the...
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Chantilly Cream – and how it contributes to the British phenomenon known as...
Yes folks, I’ve discovered something new. It’s called the ‘Fatberg’. What’s a fatberg, I hear you ask (nay, yell) at your screen. ‘Tell me! Tell me now!’ Okay. A fatberg is like an iceberg. Except it’s...
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A Day in the Life: Nerf Guns, Hawkers and Crabcake Sliders
Whilst the children were trying to kill each other with Nerf Guns I thought I’d take the opportunity to write up a recipe for Crabcake Sliders. As I began writing ‘Whilst’ I noticed a group of shifty...
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Why I drove for six and a half hours to eat Sticky Asian Pork Belly
A few weeks ago I visited a company in Devon, to see whether we wanted to buy them. It being mid-August I couldn’t decide whether it would be better to drive down or get the train. I mean the train is,...
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Fish and Chips Redux
In the UK we eat 748 million burgers every year. That equates to one a month for every man, woman and child. Fast food is a serious business, as we all know. But of all the different types (Chinese,...
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Back to school –‘I didn’t think it was physically possible but this both...
A quote from Bart Simpson up there in the header. The holiday season is over. For some six weeks I’ve been able to get to work in 20 minutes but now it’s all come to an end. I will remember those...
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