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October coffee break So how did October go? Well, it was the month I got back in the kitchen and cooked up a storm on the blog. Jokes. I worked a million hours and ate a lot of takeaway pizza….
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Coffee break: September 2018 This is a little behind the scenes look at what goes on behind the scenes at TUS HQ. Huh, well I guess that was September. Somehow we’ve gone from full-blown summer to autumn. Much as it’s…
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Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Get a copy on Amazon. BBC Books, 2016. Rick Stein’s Long Weekends feels like one big lazy holiday eating around Europe. A disarmingly charming trip to lazy harbours and bustling cities, with food you can gaze…
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The Roasting Tin Simple One Dish Dinners, by Rukmini Iyer, £16.99 (RRP) Get it from Amazon or Waterstones. There’s a simple concept behind The Roasting Tin, essentially that you put it all in a roasting tin, bung it in the oven…
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The Kilner Cookbook - Ebury Press, £12.95 (Silver Mushroom) If I asked you to name a company that makes jars, what would you say? For most of us the answer would probably instantly come out as Kilner. They’ve been doing…
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I don’t know if you noticed, but there’s been a few changes round here lately. Over the last few days I’ve updated the entire look and feel of the blog, with everything from the logo to the colours and my…
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Each summer Inverleith Park is taken over for a weekend by a selection of tents, stalls, food trucks and pop-up theatres for Foodies Festival. Now in its 11th year, Foodies Festival is back in Edinburgh this summer from the 5th…
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Today the sun goes down on 2013, the first complete calendar year of The Usual Saucepans. At the risk of sounding beyond my years, it’s gone very quickly, hasn’t it? We’ve had a meteor, 3D printed guns and more sensational…
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It’s cold outside today, so the title of this post may not produce the content you were expecting (although my ego appreciates that you started reading under that pretence. even if you didn’t). Instead we’re talking about cupboards - much…
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