February 2010

Blue Cheese Sablés, Cheese Biscuits, Cheese Crisps or Cheese Wafers

February 28, 2010

Any recipe that starts with equal amounts of ingredients always makes my ears prick up and pay attention….it’s my simple mind you see it needs all the help it can get, the less I have to remember….the less I forget! I had a good blue cheese sablés recipe in a book I’ve lost, and I [...]

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Store Cupboard Chicken – Chicken with Soy, Mirin and Ginger or Chili

February 25, 2010

This chicken dish is like my miso noodles, a cupboard recipe with only three ingredients as the title suggests. The hardest thing is deciding how to cut the chicken depending on how you’re cooking it, grilling it as I’ve made it above, stir fry or pan fry it. For me there’s a time in the [...]

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Salt Cod Fish Cakes – Bolinhos de Bacalhau

February 22, 2010

A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR MUM LEAVING…while I’m writing this my mum is ironing the last pile of our clothes, she made Paõ De Ló this afternoon and tonight she made bolinhos de bacalhau, her last act of love before boarding a plane in the early hours of the morning. I love bolinhos de bacalhau along [...]

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Megève France continues..

February 18, 2010

Here’s the second post of our four night trip to Megève in France. We left the resort on the Monday of the English half term and by then the lifts were crowded, queues were long and at the start of the easier pistes it was busy but we both felt there wasn’t as much shoving [...]

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Megève, France

February 15, 2010

I’m posting this from our last night in Megeve, France and I’m hoping tomorrow morning before we depart in the afternoon I’ll have a chance to photograph more of our four night get away. This was supposed to be a quick get away from the kids to brush up on our ski skills which were [...]

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Flourless Chocolate Cake Covered in White Chocolate

February 10, 2010

After the disaster of the honey cake and a few others like the over baked chocolate brownies or over filled apple turnovers that burst in the oven I had the chance to return to one of my all time favourite chocolate cakes; the flourless chocolate cake. I was making a cake for a neighbour’s birthday [...]

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Great News!

February 2, 2010

This news for us is so great that I can’t help but to put it in here in order for one day far far in the future when we’ve forgotten all about it, and this episode of our lives will seem like a very bad dream. Liliana today at nursery stood up by herself walked [...]

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