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Child’s Play. Easter Eggs Filled With Raspberry Marshmallow and Dusted with Sherbet.
Another day. Another take on store-bought Easter eggs. These gorgeous chocolate eggs caught my eye at the supermarket. So pretty. Perfect to be decapitated using my new-found serrated knife skills and filled with something special. A couple of Friday nights … Continue reading
Posted in Chocolate, Confectionery, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Chocolate, Easter, Easter Eggs, Food, Gelatine, Marshmallow, Raspberries, Sherbet
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Pleasing the Teenagers. Oven Baked Beef Curry Puffs With Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce.
Our weekends are always busy during term time. With sport, sport and more sport. Which means my teenagers are always ravenously hungry and on the constant lookout for something to eat. Curry puffs hit the mark perfectly. A welcome, more … Continue reading
Posted in Beef, Small Bites, To Serve with Drinks
Tagged Beef, Chilli, Coriander, Curry, Curry Puff, Food, Potato, Puff pasty, Sour Cream, Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce
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The 5-2 Challenge. Figuring Out What To Eat On Five Hundred Calories A Day.
Having watched the BBC documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer I resolved that one day I would give the 5-2 eating plan a go. After all it didn’t sound too onerous. Five feast days offset by only two fast days … Continue reading
Posted in Eggs, Soup, What I Love to Cook
Tagged 5-2, 5-2 Diet, Crab, Eggs, Fasting Diet, Food, Intermittent Fasting, Miso, Omelette, Soup, Tofu
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Sunday Night Dinner. Paella With Chicken and Chorizo.
We eat paella often in our house. Sometimes with seafood. At other times without. Always with chorizo. It’s a wonderfully communal dish to cook and eat. Spicy. Full of flavour. Easy to prepare. I must confess this weekend I ran … Continue reading
Eat, Fast and Live Longer. What’s It All About? Intermittent Fasting and the 5-2 Diet Plan.
Since October last year there appears to be a groundswell of growing support for the 5-2 eating plan. Perhaps it’s just a case of heightened awareness on my part but over the last couple of weeks,in particular, media coverage seems … Continue reading
Posted in Musings & Inspiration
Tagged 5-2, 5-2 Diet, Diet, Eat Fast and Live Longer, Eating Plan, Fasting Diet, Food, Intermittent Fasting
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Eating Seasonally. Seared Snapper with Provençal Sauce.
Late season harvest tomatoes are at their peak at this time of year. Cheap and plentiful. Sweet. Juicy. Full of flavour. I picked up punnets of perfectly ripe cherry tomatoes at the market this morning. I love to eat seasonally … Continue reading
Decadently Delicious and Dairy Free. Potato and Leek Soup With Croutons and Chives
Potato and leek. A classic soup combination. This particular version is thick and creamy. Decadently delicious. Seemingly sinful but completely dairy free. Always a bonus in my books. Particularly as the weather gets cooler and we indulge in a little … Continue reading
Posted in Soup, Vegetables, Vegetarian, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Autumn, Chives, Croutons, Food, Leek, Potato, Soup, Vegetarian
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Pasta Pronto. Penne with Little Italian Sausage Meatballs and a Home-made Tomato Sauce.
Meatballs are a perennial favourite in this house. Team them with pasta and a rich tomato sauce and I’m everybody’s best friend. The reality is that making meatballs from scratch can be quite time-consuming. Not exactly practical for a quick dinner … Continue reading
Posted in Pasta, Pork, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Food, Italian, Meatballs, Pasta, Sausage, Tomato
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Pure Nostalgia. Old Fashioned Slice and Bake Biscuits. Two Ways.
Slice and Bake biscuits. Pure nostalgia. A trip back to my childhood. A good old-fashioned stalwart from The Australian Women’s Weekly. Infinitely adaptable. Incredibly easy to make. Beat together butter and icing sugar. Add your choice of flavouring, nuts, chocolate … Continue reading
Posted in Baked, Sweet Treats, What I Love to Cook
Tagged Baking, Biscuits, Caramel, Cookies, Currant, Food, Lemon, Recipe, Shortbread, Vanilla
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Organising The Recipes On My Blog. WordPress. A Left Brain Nightmare For My Right Brain Creativity.
I began the task of organising my posts into a recipe index over a month ago. Easy peasy. Or so I thought. After all there were less than one hundred recipes to sort through. All I had to do was … Continue reading
Posted in Musings & Inspiration
Tagged Blogging, Food, Left Brain, Recipe Index, Right Brain, Wordpress
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The Paddington Foodie 