When you have accidentally bought too many packs of medjool dates which need to be eaten before you go away on holiday, what do you do? Do you ration them out as healthy snacks, or do you mix them with butter, flour and sugar and make a sticky toffee pudding? I’ll let you guess which […]
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Haggis, neeps and tatties for Burns Night
25 January is both Burns night and mine and Andrew’s anniversary – 18 years this year! We’ll be celebrating our happy lives together in Sri Lanka this year, which is a pretty spectacular way to celebrate. As for Burns night, I couldn’t resist our annual haggis, neeps and tatties, and so I cooked a haggis […]
Homemade pasta
Two recipes for the price of one this week: homemade spaghetti with tomato and basil sauce, and homemade fusilli with squid and prawn sauce. Spaghetti and fusilli are two types of pasta which you wouldn’t normally associate with homemade pasta, but thanks to my fabulous new KitchenAid attachment, I can make those, macaroni and rigatoni […]
Christmas cookie exchange
Okay, I am finally letting go of Christmas (and all the treats – it’s so hard to going back to eating normally instead of twiglets for breakfast and Christmas cake before bed, but I am doing my best!), but before my seasonal posts end I just want to do one final one on the Christmas […]
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Salt beef, bagels and pickled veggies … and lots of it
I have wanted to make this American deli classic of salt beef and bagels for a very long time. Two reasons really – firstly, I love it but when you but it in London the portions are rarely anywhere near as generous as the ones I have had in New York. Secondly it sounds like […]
Happy New Year – how I put on half a stone over Christmas!
Yes, it was a bit of a nasty shock when I got on the scales this morning, but when I look back at what I ate, it’s easy to see how I did it! Of course it was worth it though – after all, if you can’t let your hair down a bit at Christmas […]
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Getting steamed up – steamed suet and sponge puddings
When I was younger I never really wanted what my Mum cooked me for dinner. As a child of the 80s I wanted the kind of food that Iceland still seems to sell: crispy pancakes, mini kievs, chicken dippers, potato waffles, beefburgers with processed cheese ON THE INSIDE, and lots and lots of chips. MacDonalds […]
Foodie penpals – November 2013
I am so in love with foodie penpals – I’ve been sent some amazing treats from around the UK and Europe, and also had the chance to send some (hopefully) delicious goodies to random penpals across the UK (and one to Norway, in which Copenhagen is not!). The scheme takes a break for Christmas (quite […]
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Stir it up Sunday
Note from the idiot: I thought stir it up Sunday was on 17 November, so I made my cake – and wrote this post – on the 17th. Someone kindly pointed out on my Facebook page that I had the dates wrong – whoops. So I had to leave the post for a week to […]
Foodie penpals – October 2013
Foodie penpals seems to come around so quickly each month, and it’s such a pleasure to put a parcel together for others, and to receive a parcel which someone else has caringly shopped for and packed. It’s even more of a pleasure when you get to ‘meet’ really enthusiastic penpals, especially as that enthusiasm matches […]