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Rotorua Mud Cake
It was Good Friday, I had a pre-race lurgy, Morgan was exhausted after a term of school, Anna was having a well-earned day off and we were all being lazy at home so I decided to try another recipe from...
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Christmas Muffins
Mmmmm, the house is suddenly full of the aromas of Christmas – I know it’s April but I don’t care as it smells scrumptious! It’s all thanks to the orange, cranberry and cherry muffins that I’ve just...
View ArticleCamp Fire Pizza Wraps
What a gorgeous day we had yesterday – Spring was finally here, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the winds had eased a little. It never quite got warm, hitting about 10°C at best, but it was perfect...
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Run, Swim and Muffins
Who’d would have thought it, after a solid twelve hours under wall to wall sunshine in the garden yesterday, there were some snow flurries on my run this morning! It was pretty chilly out there running...
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Evil Peanut-Butter Squares
Yep, these little beauties were pretty nice! They are evil though as each little square which is barely more than a mouthful has somewhere in the region of 150 calories. Trouble is they are just far...
View ArticleBanana Curry Recipe
Now that was a delicious dinner! With little work on at the moment I’ve become a bit of a house-husband so I’m doing my best to rustle up some new and different dishes for dinner. So, today after a...
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Apple and Lime Raita Recipe
As promised, here’s the recipe I used for the Apple and Lime Raita that we had with our Banana Curry the other evening. It’s very easy to make, was a nice refreshing, crisp accompaniment to the curry...
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Date Cake – with Crispy Coconut Treacle Topping
There must be something wrong with Morgan – he didn’t want the cake mixture scrapings from the mixing bowl!! Not to worry, more for me. His tune soon changed once he got to smell the date cake cooking...
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Chocolate Brownies for Breakfast
Mmm, Chocolate Brownies for breakfast today!! Anna asked me to make some Baklava Muffins for her to take to work on Tuesday but I decided to bake some brownies instead. Of course, having baked them we...
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Banana and Chocolate Cake
Following on from my post yesterday about letting my diet slip a little, this doesn’t really help matters! It’s a banana and chocolate cake that I baked yesterday to use up some bananas that we had...
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Cakes with Lemon Cheese
After a weekend of camping, the wet weather that we had endured on Sunday followed us north and treated us to another wet day on Monday. Anna had the day off, Morgan was off school So I took the day...
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Cobbling Together Dinner
Seeing as I’m out of action training-wise at the moment I decided to play in the kitchen yesterday and cook up a delicious hearty autumnal casserole with potato cobblers as a topping. It turned out to...
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Bee Cupcakes
With the Annual ABKA Honey Show on Sunday, we had to make an effort to prepare our entries. We didn’t really have enough honey to enter and hadn’t made anything from wax. No candles, no combs of honey...
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Free Kitchen Gadgets
All my blog posts about cooking and cake recipes seem to have been getting some attention. I was emailed the other day by a marketing company working on behalf of John Lewis asking if I would like to...
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Free Kitchen Gadget Giveaway
Right, time for a pre-Christmas kitchen gadget giveaway! Free kitchen Gadgets I was given some John Lewis kitchen gadgets to review by a marketing company working on their behalf the other day (see my...
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Kitchen Gadgets Review
Well, I’ve now tried out all of the free kitchen gadgets we received the other day, included those that I’m giving away in my free kitchen gadget giveaway. So, here’s what I thought of them. 28cm...
View ArticleEvolving Curry Recipes
We quite like curries, nothing too hot and spicy but a nice thick saucy curry with plenty of flavour. We have always cooked them and often enjoy a curry night. I don’t remember having ever used a jar...
View ArticleA Funny Old Week
It’s been a funny old week for me, I’ve been rushed off my feet but haven’t really got much done. This is mainly due to the fact that I’ve been trying to earn some money by invigilating exams at the...
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A Pleasant Pheasant Present
Ha, try saying that lots of times: “A Pleasant Pheasant Present, A Pleasant Pheasant Present, A Pleasant Pheasant Present, ” We tired to sell a few jars of our limited supply of honey at the weekend....
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Singapore Noodles
We got to try out our latest pack of spices from thespicery.com yesterday, and once again we were impressed. What’s in the Box? The pack arrived last Friday and contained a whole host of spice sachets...
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