Category: Food
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Pesto morning
While Riverford has got huge bags of Basil, and as I’m currently really into cheese and nuts it seems only the proper thing to do to make Pesto on Saturday mornings. This morning I also marinated aubergines, blended sun-dried tomatoes, and went to the farmers market to buy Buffalo Ricotta and beautiful organic beefsteak tomatoes.…
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In the kitchen
Making the most of my last week off work I appear to have begun writing and photographing my recipes and even written a table of contents. I say I appear to have, because I was sitting down to plan out an entirely differnent book and when I put pen to paper about sixty recipes reeled…
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Ricotta raspberry muffins
Based on a Donna Hay recipe these swap out spelt flour and ground nuts for the white flour, and ricotta for the sour cream.
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Cherry Ricotta Breakfast Panacotta
Cream-free ricotta and yoghurt panacotta The brief: to use up an enormous jar of Bonne Maman Cherry Compote that I’d opened, eaten a bit once for breakfast and then it became the weekdays when I eat breakfast at work and therefore I had to use it up before it went off because chances were I…
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Bread glorious breadmaker
Spelt flour bread For the past few years every time we go up to Leeds to visit the family we wake up to gorgeous freshly baked bread machine bread. And finally the other week when I saw the new Panasonic breadmaker was out I caved in and bought one too.
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The sweet sweet smell of Rarotonga
Into our fifth day at The Beach Place – fittingly right on the beach – at Tikioki, nestled between Muri and Titikavaka on the south eastern coast of Rarotonga. We arrived to blistering hot sun, a lovely long afternoon walk along a tropical plant lined road, on a grassy footpath, up to Muri village shops…
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Mexican specialties
My new favourite shop. Each weekend we make the pilgrimage for refried beans, pinto beans and a good look at their menu. One day we’ll go for lunch. Marua Road, Ellerslie.
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me and my pans
I don’t know whether i’ve mentioned this – but my main ambition for our trip to the uk this time was to furnish myself with a nice set of le creuset pans. So I’ve been monitoring amazon – and I must admit I’ve been kicking myself for not just buying everything I wanted when the…
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making muesli
I’ve been meaning to do this for ages but I’m too lazy to cut up dried fruit. So when I bought M&S muesli that was entirely made up of dried fruit and nuts I saw my chance. In went a pile of porridge oats, several handsful of bits out of the baking tin – walnuts,…
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going through some old photos
That’s what I’ve been doing. And building new websites. Amongst other things.
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toast
We’ve been without a toaster for almost a year now. We just weren’t prepared to buy one we didn’t totally love. But the one we totally loved cost a mad fortune. However I’ve discovered that Amazon, if you wait long enough, will reduce the price on most things. So you just have to sit and…
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The good cake
Soon I shall bake another berry tart just like this one – a new to me recipe from my Christmas book, Off the Shelf by Donna Hay. I’ve substituted the one and a half cups of self raising flour for equal parts almond meal and spelt flour. Not forgetting to also add the baking powder.…