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New Term Lunch Ideas – help!
Tweet What a lovely SUMMER we have had. For the most part, my boys have been very good – naturally there have been days where I could happily have given them away to the highest bidder, but I think that is … Continue reading
BBC Good Food Show Spring
Tweet Last Summer, for my birthday, my lovely husband whisked me off to Birmingham to visit the BBC Good Food Show , and we had a fabulous time. As a subscriber to BBC Good Food magazine, I am clearly a fan … Continue reading
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Good Food Show Spring
Tweet I am rather excited about my upcoming trip to Harrogate to visit the very first BBC Good Food Show Spring at the HIC. I have persuaded Mr to take me to Leeds the day before, staying in a lovely looking … Continue reading
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Tagged 42 The Calls, baking, BBC, breakfast, cake, chocolate, cooking, days out, exotic meat, food, Good Food, Harrogate, healthy, James Martin, Leeds, Masons Gin, Pickles, Pucketts Pickles, Tuckers, Yorkshire
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Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday and A Recipe for Every Day
Tweet Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, a day for feasting on pancakes, laden with syrup, bacon, lemon, sugar, bananas, ice cream… whatever floats your boat. Although Pancake Day is a foodie festival the world over, the English name comes from the … Continue reading
Competition Queen Tips
Tweet Those of youwho follow me on Twitter may notice that I enter a few competitions (sorry if I spam your feed) but I do actually win quite a few so I thought it was time to make a little … Continue reading
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Secret Leopard Cake
Tweet Youngest son has decided that snow leopards are his favourite thing ever. He is an animal lover in general but for some reason snow leopards have particularly caught his attention, to the point that he desperately wanted to adopt … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, birthday, boys, cake, Children, chocolate, cooking, family, leopard, parenting, recipe, Recipe Of The Week, secret cake, snow leopard, surprise inside cake, tutorial, World Wildlife Fund, WWF
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Chocolatey Granotiffjack
Tweet I keep seeing recipes for baking mashups – “duffin” (doughnut/muffin hybrid -personally I think muffnut would be a better name), “cronut” (croissant/muffin) and even a “crookie”(croissant/cookie), so today, in the dual interests of experimentation and using up the Christmas … Continue reading
Chocolate Chip Muffins For a Poorly Boy
Tweet When your seven year old gets sent home from school poorly, and misses out on his friend’s birthday cake because he can’t go to Beavers, what else can you do, but rustle up some chocolate chip muffins? I admit, … Continue reading
Chocolate Orange Pudding – Oh So Yummy Recipe!
Tweet As part of our Sunday family dinner, tonight was my turn in the kitchen (I know, on Mother’s Day! Good job I love cooking) so I decided to rustle up a so-tasty-you-wouldn’t-believe-how-healthy-it-was chicken cacciatore. And since it was so … Continue reading
The End Of Term Is Nigh
Tweet The end of the school year is almost upon us. A lot hot summer awaits, filled with days spent playing in the garden, eating ice creams, laughing and basking under the golden sun. Okay then, endless days of drizzle … Continue reading