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Rose cupcake icing

Posted in Baking, Cupcakes, tagged , , , , on July 31, 2011| 7 Comments »

Yesterday I had a lesson in icing cupcakes to look like roses from my sister-in-law (near enough :)), Claire (who runs her own cupcake business, Sweet Sugar Sixpence. Have a look!). (more…)

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Chocolate and butterscotch stripy fudge

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged , , on July 30, 2011| 2 Comments »

Look! Fudge! I made this! With a sugar thermometer! It was stressful. But yummy. And now I can check it off my to do list. Hurray! (more…)

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Mexican meatballs with guacamole

Posted in Beef, Main dish, Meatballs, Mexican, Snacks and sides, tagged , , , on July 28, 2011| 9 Comments »

This might be my new favourite meatballs recipe. It feels wrong to prefer meatballs in wraps to meatballs with pasta, but I can’t help it! I swear I tried not to! (more…)

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Ham and mascarpone pasta

Posted in Leftover ingredients, Main dish, Mascarpone, Pasta, tagged , , , on July 26, 2011| 2 Comments »

 

I always mean to plan the following week’s meals at the weekend and buy all the ingredients so that tea in the week involves the minimum possible amount of stress. What usually happens though, is this:

Chris: “What’s for tea?”

Me: “Umm… I’ll see what we have in the fridge” (more…)

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Chicken and chorizo jambalaya

Posted in Chorizo, Leftover ingredients, Main dish, Poultry, Rice, tagged , , on July 25, 2011| 1 Comment »

One pot recipes are my favourite to do. Just cut up the stuff and chuck it in a pan, then leave it to simmer for a bit. Easy! And there’s not even that much to clear up after. Not that I clear up. That’s Chris’s job 😀 Stop feeling sorry for him, I cook him nice food. (more…)

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Banana and Mars bar loaf cake

Posted in Baking, Bananas, Greek yoghurt, Leftover ingredients, Loaf cake, Mars bars, tagged , , , on July 24, 2011| 8 Comments »

Yesterday, I made my own cake recipe. I have, in the past, taken other cake recipes and, say, added chocolate chips to it, or switched the type of sugar used. But this was actual flour, sugar, butter, etc. quantities. I was scared. What if it didn’t work? Cooking is about being creative, but cake making is about science and, well, I’m bad at science. But it worked! It worked! Look at it! All… cakey! (more…)

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Ham and cheese sausage rolls

Posted in Baking, Sausages, Savoury, Snacks and sides, tagged , , , on July 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Look at these. They lasted about 20 minutes. My nan has been making sausage rolls since I was very little and I don’t know how many times she’s been requested to make them over the years. They’re so good that I assumed they must be difficult to make, but, and it seems so obvious when you think about it, you only really need two ingredients and they can be ready to go in the oven in less than 15 minutes. (more…)

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Chocolate banoffee pie

Posted in Bananas, Dessert, Leftover ingredients, Pie, tagged , , , on July 24, 2011| 2 Comments »

 

Chocolate banoffee pie

Yep. Chocolate. Banoffee. Pie. Look at it. Don’t you just want to stick your face in it? Well, you shouldn’t. You’d have cream all over your face! It would be much more sensible to eat it with a spoon. (more…)

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Picnic time

Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2011| 3 Comments »

This is what happens when Tricia and I have a picnic. Breakfast pie, banana and Mars bar loaf, chocolate banoffee pies, strawberry cheesecake cupcakes and ham and cheese sausage rolls. For two people. Yep. Three when Chris decided to help out. We also sort of just call it a picnic as an excuse to eat a lot of food. We didn’t even go anywhere. We just ate it in my kitchen. It was good.

Tricia made the pie and cupcakes, I made the banoffee pies, banana loaf and sausage rolls. Recipes to follow!

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Parma ham and anchovy pasta

Posted in Fish, Main dish, Pasta, tagged , , , on July 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »

 

In case you hadn’t noticed, we eat a lot of pasta. It’s yummy, good for using up leftover ingredients you happen to have in the fridge, and quick for when you’ve had to stay in the office until 9pm. Stupid work. (more…)

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