Friday, September 23rd, 2011

As you can see I have a glut of Apples and I’m cooking and baking with them constantly right now. These Apple Crisp Breakfast Muffins are sweet but a lot of the sweetness comes from the fruit and not sugar. Having said that the crispy topping is not so healthy but I imagine that these [...]
Posted in Autumn & Winter Food, Baking & Sweet Things, Breakfast, Cupcakes & Small Cakes, Food & Recipes, Muffins & Pancakes
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Apple Bread Recipe 100g unsalted butter 100g caster sugar 1 heaped teaspoon ground cinnamon 3 eggs 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 250g plain flour 1 teaspoon baking powder dash of milk 2 large cooking apples 1 tablespoon of cinnamon sugar (100g caster sugar, ½ tbsp ground cinnamon) Heat the oven to 170c/ 325f/ gas mark [...]
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Friday, August 19th, 2011

One of the things that Robert and I missed the most while he was away in hospital were the times we pottered around the kitchen cooking together. The other evening after the kids were in bed we went out to one of several Damson trees in our back garden and began picking. The Damsons are [...]
Posted in Baking & Sweet Things, Breakfast, Cobblers & Crumbles, Desserts, Food & Recipes, Spring & Summer Food
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Morning! Wow, sorry about yesterday, I had real trouble with my site. It got to the point where I could no longer spend any more time on trying to fix it so I left it and now I’m starting again today. I’m thankful the whole thing didn’t go down and thank you to the folk [...]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Traditional pancakes Mix up your English style pancake batter in a large bowl Using a ladle or a large spoon, pour some of the batter mix onto a pre-heated frying pan with a knob of butter on a high heat. Fry the pancake on both sides for 2-3 minutes until both sides have browned slightly. [...]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Brie and Bacon Pancakes Mix up your English style pancake batter in a large bowl and set to one side. Grill 6 slices of free range smoked bacon until it is crispy then cut it up into small pieces. Thinly slice some brie cheese. Using a ladle or a large spoon, pour some of the [...]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Four Lemon & Poppy seed muffins. Four! FOUR? Surely a muffin tray has six holes for the batter to be poured in to? Surely if one were to make a batch of muffins then they would make enough to fill each and every hole? Yes, and I did make enough but this was one of [...]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

It’s Pancake Day / Shrove Tuesday here in the UK which means it’s the last day before Lent. Here in our office Jodie is giving up chocolate and Cathy is giving up bread. I’ve already given up my entire being to incubate the Meatballs so I’ve been let off the hook this year. But now [...]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010

MORNING!!! I’m sad that the weekend is over too but seeing as there is nothing we can do about it let’s throw ourselves in to this week with abandon and start thinking about NEXT WEEKEND!!! As you know it’s Valentine’s Day this weekend and there is really nothing nicer than breakfast in bed on such [...]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

It’s Tuesday. Anyone already looking forward to the weekend? You too? I have, what I consider to be, the best job in the world but there is nothing like rolling over in bed and realising that it’s Saturday. That’s why when I’m in a week that is going a little too slowly for my liking [...]
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