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Home comforts: Rice pudding
The vast majority of us think of rice pudding and associate it with school dinners. The same can be said of semolina. Now, both of these dishes seem to have the marmite effect. You either love them or you hate … Continue reading
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Tagged baked rice pudding, cream, Hairy Bikers, homemade, James Martin, milk, Nigel Slater, nutmeg, oven baked, pudding, pudding rice, recipe, rice, rice pudding, school, semolina, vanilla, Vanilla pod
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Spiced ginger and honey cake
My dad strikes again. One would have thought that my cheese and rosemary scone offering would have sufficed and put his begging to an end, but no, it seems to have had the opposite effect and actually spurred him on. … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, ginger, ginger cake, honey, loaf, preserved ginger, spice, spiced, syrup, tea, tea loaf, treacle
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A Taste of Italia: Chocolate, Almond and Orange Biscotti
I was lucky enough to work in Italy for two Summer periods while I was a student. What could be better than looking after children, teaching them English in the glorious sunshine and beach front location of Golfo Aranci, Sardinia? Nothing! I … Continue reading
Ultimate cheese scones
My dad has been pestering me to make cheese scones for a few weeks now. I can’t remember what television programme we had been watching at the time, but he saw someone serving cheese scones and pointed out that he … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, butter, cheese, cheese scones, cheesy, cobbler, easy, flavour, flour, lunch, Paul Hollywood, quick, recipe, rosemary and cheese scones, scones, self-raising, warm
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Easter Sunday Cadbury’s Creme Egg Brownies: Hurray Lent is finally over!
So Easter Saturday came, one more day until a delicious day of sweet heaven. What better way to spend a day than buying my sweet treats for Easter Sunday and putting myself through the purgatory of baking. Purgatory? Wait a … Continue reading
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Tagged brownie, cadbury's creme egg brownies, cadbury's creme eggs, Cadburys, chocolate, Cream eggs, Creme eggs, Easter, easy, quick, recipe
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Hot Cross Buns with a little help from Paul ‘God of bread’ Hollywood
So here it is guys, my first foray into the world of bread making. Was it as scary as I had first thought? Did my dough rise? Was it a success? Will I be moving on to greater bread heights? … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, bread, buns, crosses, Easter, Great British Bake Off, hot cross, hot cross buns, Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood, proving, recipe, yeast
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Kinda sausage cassoulet with a warm broccoli salad: Takes longer than 30mins Mr Oliver!
After getting snowed in for a day or so, I found myself slowly going mad with boredom. It was one of those days where I found myself switiching between tv channels watching a number of different food based programmes. Even … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 minute meals, bacon, breadcrumbs, broccoli, budget, butter beans, cassoulet, cumberland sausage, economical, family meal, garlic, haricot beans, jamie oliver, lemon, passata, sage, salad, sausage, tomatoes, value, warm salad
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A sweet treat: Honey roasted ham with roasted rosemary baby potatoes, chantenay carrots and Italian baked fennel
There’s no finer dinner than a roasted ham joint. (Well in my opinion anyway) Readers as you can see, my recent array of recipes are all savoury. It is unfortunately still Lent and I’m still on that dedicated track where … Continue reading
A Mother’s Day Victoria Sponge, Against the Odds – Introducing the ‘Victory Sponge!’
A Taste of Cumbria received a picture via Twitter last week of a homemade Victoria sponge from Scott McLoughlin. Scott is a very good friend and is a novice baker. As you can see and will read in his guest … Continue reading
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Tagged baker, bbc, blackberries, cake, clotted, clotted cream, cream, guest blog, Mother's day, novice, sponge, strawberries, strawberry, tea, victoria, victoria sponge
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Blackened Cajun Cod with paprika potato wedges: Lorraine Pascale
I have decided that my family don’t eat enough fish. Personally, I have always had a strange relationship with fish. Growing up, a visit to the chippy always included a jumbo sausage rather than a succulent piece of battered fish. … Continue reading
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Tagged aioli, Blackened cod, cajun, cod, fish, flour, Lorraine Pascale, paprika, Pascale, potato, salad, spice, vegetables, wedges
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