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Things To Make Me Smile (and a few things that annoy me)
Category: Cooking
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This is supposed to be full of things that make me smile – given how often I post here you would be forgiven for thinking I never smile! Sadly I’m going to shift the blame to facebook and it’s got nothing to do with my lack of effort 🙂 – honest! We all know how…
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I’m not treading a fine line on is it too early to mention Christmas? For me it’s never too early 🙂 I saw this a few years ago and there was another one made subsequently but for me this is the one to watch – it’s pure magic! Heston’s Perfect Christmas I’ve been trying to…
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Very is the answer! Today we were out and about – we went to Dun Laoghaire (by mistake) so we went into Meadows & Bryne. Whilst browsing around – it’s was amazing the amount of gadgets that you just have to have! Anyway whilst browsing I came across a Pie/Tart dish with a swizzly thing…
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Well it seems that I’ve picked the best week to be off. Again the busses are out of action so woohoo when I say no walk home! However even though I haven’t really been out and about I do have some soup on the go – I think it’s a weight watchers recipe but to…
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My mother used to make the most gorgeous boiled fruit cake but unfortunately returning to work, time constraints and losing the recipe put a stop to that. I remember you would nearly have the mixture eaten from the saucepan even before the flour went in – totally yummy! So can you imagine my joy of…
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This morning I was reading an article by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall about cooking with children. Please put that old joke down! I know we all like children just couldn’t eat a whole one! Anyway now that that’s out of the way – cooking with the aid of children – when I was little or younger (which…
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Ok so the making a post every day isn’t really working out. There have been two reasons for this – the minor one is that I was away over the weekend doing my Christmas Visits and the major reason is that our internet at home is on the blink. Right now I’m on my lunch…
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I’ve watched this programme and I’ve often wondered what would mine be. While the programme seems to have dishes for me it’s single things – Fry’s Chocolate Cream and After Eights remind me of my Granddad on my fathers side and Apple Tart, a fry for your tea and most importantly Christmas Pudding remind me…
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Well I had well and truely fallen off the WW bandwagon and found that I am now 2stone above my goal weight – eek. I sat on the bus home thinking Oh My God! It wasn’t the figures on the scales – they were exactly what I expected but what I can’t figure out is…
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Today I picked up my copy of Kitchen Essays from our favourite book shop – Chapters I really am looking forward to reading this.
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