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Foodie Penpals
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” ~ Fran Leibowitz So a month ago I saw, and joined, this Foodie Penpals group. The idea is once a month you’re sent the address of someone to make a food...
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Holy Bread?
I just found a packet of hot cross buns hidden at the back of a cupboard. They’ve been there since Easter. They still look exactly the same as they did when I bought them. Now, is this by design? Are...
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How to Trim Your Waistline AND Your Carbon Footprint, Without Even Thinking...
“We kindly remind you that calories are for eating not counting.” ~ from the bottom of a restaurant menu in Oslo. Dieting doesn’t work. The entire existence of the dieting industry is a testament to...
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Mackerel and Mirtazapine
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” ~ Virginia Woolf I explained before that when I first started working I went through a period of a major depression. This was...
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Spicy Salmon Steaks with Pepper Noodles
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” ~ Cesar Chavez A couple of weeks ago I talked about how following...
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Public Service Announcement
Okay, so if some drunken boys ever happen to give you a beef burger that’s been sat outside in the sun all day then cooked on a re-lit barbecue, at night, in the dark – don’t eat it. Especially if the...
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Because A Cup of Tea Solves Everything
“The very act of preparing and serving tea encourages conversation. The little spaces in time created by teatime rituals call out to be filled with conversation. Even the tea itself–warm and...
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Easy Peasy Cookie Recipe
“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.” ~ Sandra Lee If a bad day or week has left you feeling a little fragile...
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Simple Scones
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer,...
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Bhagari Jhinga Recipe
“I’m going to scream this from the mountain top, there’s no such thing as ‘a curry.’ There’s six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask ‘Which...
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Moreish Muffins
I’m still on my baking kick, I think it’s helping. My friend, milking the fact that he’s not very well, asked me to bake a chocolate cake. I decided to make some of these muffins instead but they seem...
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5 Ingredient Pasta – 20SB Cooking Contest
“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.” ~ Julia Child So, over on 20 Something Bloggers JerseySjov suggested starting up a cooking competition. I was quite excited by the...
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The Fancy-Pants Way To Make A (Totally Awesome) Bacon Sandwich – 20SB Cooking...
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid...
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Tomato Garlic Bread in Ten Minutes
“Yeah, I think garlic bread would have to be my favourite all-time food. I could eat it for every meal. Or just constantly, without stopping.” ~ Scott Pilgrim v. The World For want of anything better...
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Gotta Eat To Live
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” ~ Erma Bombeck On Thursday while I was at work I ate a sausage sandwich for breakfast, some chorizo and...
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