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There are so many traditions around the world involving food that it is impossible to know them all. But of all the feasts we don’t celebrate the one we hear most about is Thanksgiving. This is possibly because I made…
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Well, it’s been about a week since the cinnamon jar left my cupboard, so I think we can all agree it is high time it was brought out of solitary confinement and put into a cake. Today it’s an recipe…
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There’s something about autumn. I don’t know if it’s getting to kick through a mound of leaves like a (not so) little kid, the idea of Hallowe’en and ghost stories, or the sheer number of foods and flavours available to…
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It’s ten minutes after I’ve been taking photos on the back grass of this Pimm’s drizzle cake 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…
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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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