MY Chocolate Chip Cookies so Gerroff – still warm too, mmmmm…..
Jan25

MY Chocolate Chip Cookies so Gerroff – still warm too, mmmmm…..

I am an oddball, so I’ve been told, because I’m really not that fussed about chocolate (shock!). Listen up all those with kind hearts who have, over the years, bought me boxes of luxury chocolates. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful but a buncha beautiful flowers (but not yellow ones, ‘k), make my heart sing that bit louder. However. There is an exception to my little oddball-thing; chocolate chip cookies, more...

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Chocolate Rice Krispie Cakes Recipe – remember these?
Jan23

Chocolate Rice Krispie Cakes Recipe – remember these?

Another school dinners favourite, these chocolate rice krispie cakes were always made in huge trays and served in square chunks with the obligatory oodles of custard. Best of all, they are also a classic cook-with-children recipe; easy and fun to make and always a favourite to eat! This is the original 70’s recipe I used myself as a child, that’s been carefully tucked away in one of my Mums recipe books – looks like...

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Sunday Recipe – Worlds Best Apple Cakes
Sep13

Sunday Recipe – Worlds Best Apple Cakes

I thought I’d better finally share, as I’ve been asked to so often, and now they’re fighting over the cyber-cakes on Twitter I thought it time they made their own. And as a bonus, it’s a recipe so easy you can make it with a 3 yr old. You know how you have a zillion recipe books, but only a handful you constantly return to? Well, this is a recipe from one of mine – it’s the 1980 version of Readers...

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Yumyumyum – salmon pasta recipe from Annabel Karmel
May19

Yumyumyum – salmon pasta recipe from Annabel Karmel

Annabel Karmel is at it again – another new book out this week, this one just made for me – ‘Top 100 Pasta Dishes’. What did we do in the UK before pasta arrived? You know, that ‘oh, it appears to be 5.30 and I’ve cooked no dinner’ moment – what do we do? Reach for the pasta. Easy. So, I needed no arm twisting when we were asked to review the new book – I know Annabel Karmel can be...

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The Four, The Life, the Laundry – In Which They Eat Pancakes!

Okay – here it is. Our Pancake Day effort. This morning, tempted by some really very evil Tweets this morning, I decided the boys might like a change from their usual Golden Syrup-fest. So I surprised them with this : Once the boys had polished off one each of these, only No.1 managed a 2nd. Boy went for his more usual plain (yes, as in just-the-pancake; no toppings at all. Odd child, I know), and Jolly had a mini one with his...

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Slopsville – The Rice Pudding.
Nov04

Slopsville – The Rice Pudding.

  So I finally got around to making Helen’s rice pudding. Kind of. I thought there was only one way to make rice pudding. So I didn’t think I needed to bother making the arduous trek from the kitchen to the computer (about ten feet) to look up Helen’s recipe. How different could it be from the one on the side of the rice box? That was my first mistake. My second mistake was to not read the “recipe”...

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