December 2009

Post Christmas

December 29, 2009

Resting after Christmas Today is my boxing day although it’s four days after Christmas it was the first day I’ve done very little and had a chance to look through my cookery books always a blissful time and I’ve looked through photos taken by my new lens 35mm F1.8 which I’m truly impressed and ecstatic [...]

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Christmas Eve and Mince Pies

December 24, 2009

Feliz Natal My Christmas has started a batch of mincepies have been made…the girls have opened one present each a household tradition harping back to my Portuguese roots and my garage is full of the of food that doesn’t fit into the fridge just as well it’s cold outside. Mince Pies The pastry for my [...]

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Cranberry Sauce and Snow

December 19, 2009

Let It Snow I do not remember the last time it snowed before Christmas, proper snow that settles. Our garden backs on to a field with a slope and as soon as there is snow on the ground you’ll see the young and not so young out on the hill from daylight pulling their sledges. [...]

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Butternut Squash and Coriander Spice Soup

December 16, 2009

First day of snow today and it could not be more appropriate to be making a big pot of soup. As I was chopping away the vegetables and thinking about making leeks to go with the roast chicken for tonight’s meal it slowly started to snow. Like a kid I find it enchanting looking out [...]

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Chocolate and Pear Tart (Chocolate Cream Cheese)

December 11, 2009

Today is cold but sunny and the sort of day where I should be doing three things at once in order to get through my ‘to do list’. I’m not sure why I bother with a to do list, do not remember ever completing one but I do keep adding to it. All they do [...]

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Broad Bean & Lentil Salad

December 5, 2009

This post first appeared in my old blog 11th June 09. These were the first broad beans I’ve encountered this year and off I went with two packs thinking how best to cook them whilst fighting with my trolley around the supermarket. You do not receive a lot of change from your broad bean pods [...]

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Gurnard In Tomato Sauce with Star Anise

December 5, 2009

This post was suppose to be about my butternut squash soup spiced with coriander seeds but the day didn’t quite go as planned and what came out of the kitchen today was a vegetable soup, which in fact did contained coriander spice, but it also had a lot of leeks and according to the family [...]

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