Archive for the ‘Recipes’ Category
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Making Tattie Scones with my Nana
I love my Nana. That’s not unusual I suppose, to love your grandmother. But my Nana is wonderful. She’s five foot nothing and she is the most wonderfully kind and giving woman I know who ...
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Marian Keyes Saved By Cake: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself Happy and The Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
When I was seventeen a friend of mine lent me a book with the enticement of, ‘The main character, she just reminds me so much of you.’ I loved the book, not so much the ...
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The GD’s Birthday Cake – Chocolate Heart Attack Cheesecake
The time came for The GD to get a little older. I told him not to, I’m beginning to think birthday’s are overrated but turns out, you just can’t stop them. He was feeling a ...
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My Spit Roast
Once, when I was a little girl I asked my Dad for a pony. I continue to ask for a pony on a regular basis. No pony has yet appeared. But one day after my ...
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The VIP has a birthday and I cannot bake…
There is a shame in this confession, it is difficult for me to admit because I am very competitive and I like to be good at everything. I am good at pretty much everything except ...
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Putting it into practice – Our Turkish Dinner
The GD and I came back from our trip a little sad, the way that any traveler who has had a wonderful time will. So it wasn’t surprising that one of the first things we ...
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Cooking Alaturka Cooking School – Sultanahmet, Istanbul
I suppose everyone is a bit nervous before they meet their boyfriend’s parents, right? Somehow over the past year I had avoided that horrible first meeting thanks to The GD’s being from Scotland and his ...
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NQN’s Bloody Aussie Chook
I first saw this on Not Quite Nigella and from there it appeared everywhere. Chicken cooked with a beer can inside on a barbecue. I wanted to so much to try it and on my ...
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Pork and Water Chestnut Dumplings and Wantons.
I have a weakness.A terrible, terrible weakness for dumplings.I adore gyoza, xiao long bao, siao mai any kind of dumplings. I will always eat dumplings – no matter how full I am, or what kind ...
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Home Made Tomato Pasta Sauce
I don’t know if this is just something that happens in my house – but occasionally we end up with a lot of one particular fruit or vegetable that we’re into at the moment – ...
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Australia Day, Sam Keokovich and a big leg of lamb. (Otherwise known as the Pesto Disaster).
Ahhh Australia Day. I have mixed feelings about Australia Day – On the one hand, dressing up in Australian Flags with my sister seemed like a fun thing to do. My sister and I – ...