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Drinking in Pregnancy?

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Only the soft stuff I?m afraid, and an odd slurp or small mouthful of wine with dinner every so often! So someone offering to send me a bottle of a new bottlegreen green tea & elderflower sparkling pressé. According to the press release,[...]

March?s Fresh from the Oven Challenge ? Hot Cross Buns

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An apology: since the chickens arrived at the end of October, I?ve been a little obsessed with building them a palace! Then in November, we discovered we were expecting a baby, so this then took control of my life for a short while! Now, half way[...]

Farmhouse Breakfast Week

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What makes the perfect bacon sarnie? You may, or may not, have known that this past week has been Farmhouse Breakfast Week . I read an article recently that said something along the lines of (bear in mind I can?t remember where I read it, or[...]

Cherry Plum Gin?a homemade Christmas

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Left it too late to get to the shops? If you?re anything like me, you?ll have used the snow as an excuse to stay in, keep warm in front of the fire and eat comfort food. What you won?t have done is brave the elements to finish the Christmas[...]

The Snow Day Bake-Off: Banana and Walnut Tea bread

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  I was recently invited to join Julia Parsons? event, and since we?ve had many snow days, have regularly made this very easy and delicious tea-bread. It does taste best straight from the oven smeared with butter, but is[...]

Jamie?s 30 minute ? Sea bass & crispy pancetta, sweet potato mash, Asian greens, 1-minute berry ice cream, sparkling lemon ginger drink? meal!

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This was a task for which I was thoroughly prepared: I?d bought all the ingredients (taking a list as long as my arm!); I?d watched the TV programme for the recipe I was going to do so I could visualise everything I should be dong and when; I had[...]

Findus Fresher Taste

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I recently picked up some vouchers for this new Findus range and thought, ?Why not??. I am, after all, human and don?t have time, or the inclination, to cook from scratch every night, even though it?s my downtime. So, last night, my relaxing was[...]

Autumnal Treats?Pumpkin Pie

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As you may know, over the last few weeks the OH has been improving his Sunday Lunch skills for friends. This week, Jamie?s roast chicken was accompanied by all the usual, and some of the unusual! Our friend, Neil, offered to bring a Pumpkin Pie for[...]

Merlotti vs Domino?s

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As promised, I, (just so you didn?t have to, you understand) made my own version of a home delivery pizza , and now is the time to order the real thing and compare the two! Now, the OH is always asking to order a pizza, and I always say[...]

alice?s Cook Book - review

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Some cookbooks are really just for looking at: browsing through whilst snuggled up in the front of the fire on an autumn afternoon. Alice?s , however, despite having many beautiful photographs and a casual, retro, arty layout, is all about the[...]