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Minced Beef Ramen recipe Bloody hell it’s back to school time again already. The lovely quiet summer streets are filling up again and the traffic’s backing up. For many, not me as I’m ancient and my boys are grown ups, it’s time to start thinking about off/back to uni meals. And if George’s diet at…
Mango Coconut Overnight Oats recipe I’ve been a bit slow to blog recently; I’m giving myself a bit of a break over the summer months whilst we’ve been drinking too many Aperols and catching up with friends. All the ‘catching up’ has been catching up with me, so I’ve been making these Mango and Coconut…
One Pot Chicken Satay Noodles recipe I won’t lie, I very nearly didn’t create a new recipe this week. It’s bloody roasting in London, I had an exhausting weekend and I just couldn’t haul my arse away from watching tennis at the Olympics. You will be pleased to see, I did find some motivation and…
Strawberry Crumble Recipe Hot strawberries, no thank you. That’s what I thought when I first saw this recipe in the foxy Nigella Lawson’s Kitchen book. Strawberries for me have only ever been chopped and served with a squeeze of lemon juice, sugar and mint. To cook them would be sacrilege in my mind. However, this…
Baileys Fruit Cake for Christmas recipe I am the family provider of Christmas cake for the big day. I am also the main devourer of the aforementioned cake. It’s mostly my Mother and I who can manage to shoe horn the first slice down mid afternoon just when you don’t think you can eat another…
Salted Coffee Chocolate Biscuit Cake I don’t want to say the summer’s over, but the summer’s over. It’s even raining to really seal the deal and to ensure I’m in full misery mode. The school holidays have raced by. It only seemed 5 minutes ago I was wondering how I was going to entertain George…
Pretty Pastel Meringues Recipe It’s nearly Summer and there’s nothing prettier on a table than a pile of pastel meringues. And given the man-heavy environment in our house, I, of course, choose pink as my pastel colour of choice. It has taken me ages to master a good meringue. I have had many a chalky…
