Re gifting :

DATE and HONEY LOAF

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Date and Honey Loaf Normally I am a yeast-a-holic, hey I make pancakes using yeast if I have the time. This has no yeast, quick as (to use the terminology of my kids!) and except for the baking, takes minutes to get organised. Quick bread[...]

POWER TO THE PEOPLE?

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Persian Power Bars I have been twiddling around with the idea of power bars for sometime as the ones you can buy are; A) nasty tasting B) bad for you in that they have masses of additives and C) because I have a Thermomix and that[...]

THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

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Pecan Cheese Ball If you are anything like me, the day after Christmas you are pretty well over the flavours/food of Christmas; ham, turkey, dried fruit in any form, candy canes, (dare I include chocolate in this list?) and you may have[...]

Mini Drunken Pecan Pies

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Pecan pie is one of the most popular pies around, especially in the south. In my house, it is one of my husband's favorites. This year I decided to do mini pies with a little something extra. Whiskey. I used Johnny Walker[...]

SALTED CARAMEL BROWNIES

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Salted Caramel Brownies Well after a flying visit to the South West, I came home to a day off…heaven wouldn’t you think? Except I spent half of it waiting in a doctors surgery for kid #5 to see doctor, and the other half[...]

POPPING SINGLE HANDEDLY!

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Well I have a work related injury, and it is impeding my typing, but never my cooking! I sliced my fore finger open like I was filleting a fish! OUCH…a roll of paper towel, nausea attack, visit to the Doc for super glue and butterfly[...]

THREE WAYS WITH EGG NOG!

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Egg Nog Ice Cream Egg Nog Fudge It was bound to happen?I ran out of puff approximately somewhere between here and Zurich 40,000ft in the air. I LOVED Zurich (and Lachen and Lucerne ) ; Switzerland is truly the most beautiful[...]

BACONNAISE, DULSE AND ME!

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Baconnaise! Well rather than go shopping for all those bits and pieces one runs out of periodically, I decided to clean out the fridge and do a bit of home made pantry inventory…so on a busy Saturday I not only managed to navigate an[...]

CHIPS OFF THE OLD PRETZEL

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You know I love a good bread recipe, and never short on food ideas, I am happy to say that I found a couple of fellow bloggers on the same wave length for these ones; Pink Parsley did an excellent recipe adapted from the now extinct[...]

GLUTEN FREE ALMOND CRACKERS

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Almond Rosemary Crackers A boring title methinks…but I have been studying good blogging habits and to my horror found I have comitted the cardinal recipe blogging sin; not naming my post correctly…being silly, in other words![...]