Regular followers of It’s not easy being greedy will have seen that my dear mother features quite regularly on these pages. It’s from her that I learnt to cook (and learned not to burn things as regularly as her!) and I think it’s fair to say that I inherited my greediness from her too. We […]
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi crempogs or St David’s Day pancakes
I am writing this post as Andrew screams at the television, urging Wales to beat France at their Six Nations rugby match*. At times like this, I am not so fond of having a Welsh boyfriend, but I suppose a footie-loving partner would be worse – at least rugby doesn’t seem to be on the […]
Cookbook Challenge – Gary Rhodes: goats cheese and tomato salad, cod with bacon and carrots, rhubarb tart
Gary Rhodes is one of those TV chefs who was always on the telly when I was growing up, with his spiky hedgehog hair and checkered trousers. Despite his (for the time) slightly unorthodox appearance, his cooking and presentation could not have been more traditional. Classic dishes, cooked traditionally, presented in a refined and simple […]
Week 5 – a whole week at home to look forward to
Working for a French company, I get to travel to our Paris office quite frequently. Whilst I hate having to wake up at 5am to catch the train, and staying in a hotel is boring, I love taking the opportunity to spend time with my French colleagues. But I’ve been travelling a fair bit recently […]
Not quite Christmas dinner
When Andrew’s parents came to visit from Wales recently, we thought it would be nice to have a pretend Christmas dinner with a three course meal, crackers and wine. I don’t like turkey at the best of times though, and so chose chicken as our meat of choice for the dinner. What we had was […]
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Nutella stuffed chocolate chip cookies
How can you look at the title of this post and not be desperate to eat some Nutella immediately? And look at that picture of gooey Nutella stuffed into a warm chocolate chop cookie! Yum! I got the idea for stuffing cookies with Nutella when I saw a collection of ‘seasonal cookies you must try’ […]
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A cheat’s Christmas cake
If I am ever presented with a cake menu (sadly, not often enough) then I suspect that hell is more likely to freeze over than I am to choose a fruit cake from the menu: generally I feel that fruit wasting the space that could be used by delicious cake, or cream, or jam, or […]
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Sausage rolls for Christmas
Ever since I can remember, I’ve always had sausage rolls at Christmas. I remember my mum used to but those bags of 50 cocktail sausage rolls from Iceland which she’d cook all in one go, leave them to cool on the counter, and then shout at my brother and me each time we pinched one or […]
Baking with Betty Crocker
I was recently invited to Betty Crocker bake and decorate event in London and was disappointed to discover that Betty was invented in the 1920s by American Mad Men. ‘Her’ first product was Bisquick (still available in shops now) and ‘she’ was introduced to the British market in the 1990s. My brother Jason and I […]
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Celebrating It’s not easy being greedy’s birthday with chocolate beer cake and choc chip cookies
Hey, hey, hey, it’s my birthday. By which I mean it’s my blog’s birthday – I wouldn’t be quite so enthusiastic about my own as I edge closer and closer to 40! So, 27 October 2013 was the day I wrote my first blog post. On this day last year I celebrated the blog’s 1st birthday, […]