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Category: Food
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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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We were at a BBQ this afternoon and it was lovely!! Great to see folk, eat some really lovely food – there was one particular salad there that was just yummy and I could have taken the whole dish 🙂 so it’s a light tea this evening – I was thinking boiled eggs and soldiers…
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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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Myself and my mother went back last week. Â I weighed in 2st 2.5lbs above my goal weight. Â I can confirm that the majority of that is chocolate and for the most part I enjoyed every last mouthful. Â Anyway after a week of pointing (I can almost do this in my sleep) and tracking (this I…
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This is the post were The Vintage Kitten will kill me hence the Ooops! Â When I last posted we were off to my sisters for dinner as it was my mothers 60th. Â For starters we had scallops on a bed of parsnip (i think) with a mixed leaf salad and here it is: It was…
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Last Friday was my mothers 60th Birthday and tonight we’re all having dinner out in my sisters new house. I have to admit I’m looking forward to it. Â Her boyfriend (sisters) is going to be doing the cooking and rumour has it that he is rather good at it too. Â I promise I’ll take pics…
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