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It’s ten minutes after I’ve been taking photos on the back grass and the dog is sniffing around, searching for that solitary cake crumb that she won’t ever find. But it’s summer, and that simply doesn’t matter. Summer is the…
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It must have been about eight or nine years ago now. Who knew one little book would lead to all this? Don’t worry, I’m not about to try sign you up to some weird cult, it’s a cook book. I…
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I think we’ve got about five punnets of raspberries from the garden in the last week (and that’s with one of the bushes being utterly rubbish). Tubfuls are going straight into the freezer, we just can’t eat them fast enough;…
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Ding Dong Merrily oh my, the oven the bells are ringing. Ding Dong Verily your pie(hole), the mincemeat is cinnamon-y! OK, so I’m not going to be winning a Grammy any time soon, but what I certainly can turn my…
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Food always caries with it a story – that much I have learnt as a food blogger. Sometimes it is with the situation you are making it for, other times it is in the food’s history. Despite having made ANZAC…
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There are days when you brain works. And then there are those when it doesn’t. I had one of the latter the other day whilst making this Dobos torte. Somehow I didn’t think that the boiling hot caramel that was a liquid when…
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In the summertime, when the weather is fine, you can reach right up and touch the sky. Yes, there have been glimpses of this mythical beast they call summer lately and whilst Mungo Jerry plays out lazily over the speakers…
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After watching his set at Glastonbury a few weeks ago I’ve found myself singing Lionel Ritchie songs at random intervals. All of which, of course, makes the idea of spending a Sunday morning lazing on the sofa with a large mug…
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I’ve completed the set. My shiny new phone has been christened by my kitchen. It seems to be technology that I own has to, at least once, be engulfed in an unnecessary amount of flour. I really need to be…
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