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Chocolate and butterscotch stripy fudge

July 30, 2011 by Julia

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! Continue Reading »

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Mexican meatballs with guacamole

July 28, 2011 by Julia

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! Continue Reading »

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Ham and mascarpone pasta

July 26, 2011 by Julia

 

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” Continue Reading »

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Chicken and chorizo jambalaya

July 25, 2011 by Julia

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. Continue Reading »

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Banana and Mars bar loaf cake

July 24, 2011 by Julia

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! Continue Reading »

Posted in Baking, Bananas, Greek yoghurt, Leftover ingredients, Loaf cake, Mars bars | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments »

Ham and cheese sausage rolls

July 24, 2011 by Julia

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. Continue Reading »

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Chocolate banoffee pie

July 24, 2011 by Julia

 

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. Continue Reading »

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Picnic time

July 24, 2011 by Julia

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

July 22, 2011 by Julia

 

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. Continue Reading »

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Tomato and mozzarella pasta bake

July 21, 2011 by Julia

Believe it or not, whereas now I will stuff my face with pretty much any amazing food, up until I was about 16 I was an absolute nightmare to feed. My tastes were incredibly unsophisticated, the list of foods I didn’t like could fill a book and I rejected nearly all of the lovely food my mum cooked in favour of tomato sauce sandwiches, chicken burgers and  shop-bought chocolate swiss roll. There are some foods, though, which you can’t dislike, no matter how difficult you are. This is one of them. Continue Reading »

Posted in Main dish, Mozzarella, Pasta, Vegetarian | Tagged , , | 1 Comment »

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