April 2010

Gabriela’s Pesto – Two Ingredients

April 26, 2010
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In my house I live two separate lives with regards to food.  One part of my life is the food I like to cook, experiment, share and maybe post about and then there’s the second side of my food life where I need to feed as best as I can a child with multiple-food allergies. [...]

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Mango Amelie Not An Alphonso But Still Worth Eating

April 25, 2010
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I came across this type of mango ‘Amelie’ from Burkina Faso on one of my shopping trips (had to look up where Burkina Faso was) and looking at the skin alone they promised to be different from the usual fibrous large types we normally see here, Kent is one of the fibrous varieties grown in [...]

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How To: Cut a Mango

April 25, 2010
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Banoffee Pancakes – Dulce de Leche Pancakes – Caramel Pancakes

April 21, 2010
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I made these pancakes after looking through a food magazine which had two recipes, one for banoffee pie using the tin of caramel below and another recipe for buttermilk pancakes served with caramalised bananas, and it occurred why not combine the two, banoffee pancakes? You see in our household no one likes pancakes.   The [...]

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The Sourdough Queen Has Passed On Her Magic

April 21, 2010
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I have to post this to give a Great Big Thank You to my good friend blogger Gill who is responsible for my recent addiction to baking sourdough.  Gill makes very impressive bread and has been my mentor with the sourdough.  Because of her generosity of passing on a starter she has turned my bread [...]

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Bikerboy and I Are Getting Married…Finally

April 11, 2010
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Finally Bikerboy and I are getting married this summer and it’s been a long time coming.  We’ve been engaged for seven years and it feels strange finally doing it, we had everything planned to be married 4 years ago but had to cancel because of Bikerboy’s mum diagnoses of cancer.  All the hurdles we’ve had [...]

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Passion Fruit Curd

April 4, 2010
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My parents are lucky enough to be able to grow passion fruit on their acre of land and when the fruit is ready for picking my mother goes through the process of scooping out the insides and freezing it for a later date.  I wish they didn’t live a plane journey away. I adore passion [...]

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How To – Joint A Chicken

April 4, 2010
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How I cut a chicken. This is my way and it works for me. I cut a chicken this way still keeping the meat attached to the bone because the bones will keep the meat moist throughout the cooking and give it the best flavour.  I like to keep the bone on the breast too [...]

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Beetroot Chickpea & Herb Fritters

April 2, 2010
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My idea for these beetroot and chickpea fritters came from Simply Recipes blog’s beetroot humous, Elise made a humous  with such a gorgeous vibrant colour and the two earthy ingredients beetroot and chickpeas sounded in my mind a perfect match.  It’s so satisfying when you picture food together in your mind and then it turns [...]

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