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Friday food links – 27 Nov 2015
A week of holiday, away at Center Parcs means not much cooking. I brought a stack of ready meals (Charlie Bigham), and supplemented by my mother-in-law, we’ve brought enough food to last the week in...
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Friday food links – 4 Dec 2015
Christmas has officially appeared on the horizon now. Sorry to those of you who dread this run-up, but after the 1st Dec, I think we’re officially allowed to begin preparations. Ours kicked off...
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Friday food links – 8 Jan 2016
This week has felt like proper winter for the first time this season – actual frost on the roofs some mornings, a chilly wind that forced me to do up my coat for just about the first time this year....
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Friday food links – 22 Jan 2016
I’ve been trying out a Hello Fresh box this week. [disclosure: I haven’t been given anything for free by Hello Fresh, or been approached by them to write this post. I don’t do that sort of thing...
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Friday food links – 29 Jan 2016
Some days are all about muddy puddles. Last week I experimented with Hello Fresh, getting three of the week’s meals delivered as one of their meal kits. This week, I took a different tack, relying on...
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Friday food links – 12 Feb 2016
This week has been powered by a big joint of pork shoulder that my mum slow-cooked on Saturday. It has been served with baked potatoes, in burrito bowls and in tortillas. It would have made it into...
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Friday food links – 19 Feb 2016 – and a homemade pizza recipe
It has been a real where-did-the-week-go week. My kitchen saviours have been the freezer and the oven timer. From the freezer came a container of Chinese-flavoured braised pork, which made the most...
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Friday food links – 26 Feb 2016
I had a few days of holiday to use up before the end of March, so I took two days off this week to do some work on the blog. I hope to move the whole thing to a new design soon, and to add some new...
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Friday food links -3 March 2016
I’m just starting to emerge from a week of being submerged under a cold. The headache is lingering, but I think I’ve turned the corner, and the sunshine today is helping too. Given the shortage of...
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Cookbook exploring in 2012
I have acquired a lot of new cookbooks this year. A lot. In fact, I’ve just counted 24 new books in 2011, including both cookbooks and food writing. Gulp. One of the problems with twitter is that I...
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Eliza Acton – Victorian recipe creator
Never mind Mrs Beeton, Eliza Acton was the real force behind the modernisation and codification of the English Victorian kitchen. In fact, she moans in the preface to the revised version of her book,...
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Other people’s cookbooks
Some of my favourite cookbooks by bloggers One of the things I love about the web, and about twitter and food blogs in particular, is the vicarious friends you make. I get to know people so well...
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Friday food links – 7 Nov 2014
The tea loaf love continues. The one above is Justin Gellatly’s version from ‘Bread, Cake, Doughnut, Pudding‘. It uses Earl grey tea and lemon zest and is beautifully fragrant as a result. Gabrielle...
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Friday food links – 12 Dec 2014
Sorry for the delay in publishing – we were away for the weekend. It’s the time of year for lists and ‘best ofs’, so I’ve been looking at a few best books of the year posts, and also bookmarking...
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Friday food links (cookbook edition) – 2 Jan 2015
I thought I would use this New Year post to make some notes on the new cookbooks I got for Christmas, and to remind myself of the recipes I’m most excited about making: Patisserie Made Simple – Edd...
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Friday food links – 16 Jan 2014
A bit of a bleak week – rain battering on the skylights at night, cold winds whistling around the pushchair in the day. Highlights included a first run with my proving baskets from Bakery Bits...
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Friday food links – 23 Jan 2015
Winter is really here now. I think it took its time arriving, but there’s no real doubt now. Even in our sheltered corner, there’s thick frost on the ground each morning. I’m thankful there’s no snow...
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Friday food links – 6 Mar 2015
This week has shown a hint of Spring. Sunny days have brought out crocuses, daffodils and the first spikes of tulip leaves. The wind is still cold, but at least it shows that things are moving in the...
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Friday food links – 13 Feb 2015
Excited to have got my hands on the new James Morton book, ‘How Baking Works‘. This feels like the book I should have written, so very interested to see what he has to say. I also cleared out my...
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Friday food links – 10 Apr 2015
I’m now into the last two weeks of maternity leave, so this has been a week of firsts, lasts and letting go gradually. I am going back to work three days a week, so there will still be time for...
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Friday food links – 24 April 2015
My first week back to work, and my daughter is one today – big milestones. I am trying to simultaneously raise my sights at work, and lower my expectations at home. Looking for ways to squeeze more...
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Friday food links – 1 May 2015
What kind of week has it been? Busy, as I start to get back into the swing of work. Little E still has a horrid cough, so sleep hasn’t been great generally (although we did get only our second ever...
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Book review: Slow cooked by Miss South
You may have noticed me going on (and on) about my slow cooker cooking in my weekly Friday food links posts. Faced with an imminent return to work, and the prospect of squeezing dinner preparation...
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Friday food links – 15 May 2015
I have a cucumber! A very small one, but there is a bona fide cucumber on my cucumber plant, so that must mean that summer is just around the corner, no? And my strawberries are covered in flowers. It...
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Friday food links – 28 August 2015
This has been another week of holiday. We went to visit my Mum and Dad in Somerset with E. Despite the weather, we’ve managed a good deal of slides and swings, pigs and chickens, trolley rides and...
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Friday food links – 30 Oct 2015
My meal plan ran out half way through this week – I just didn’t get around to planning the second half of the week. Which meant we ate pasta on those nights I failed to plan for. What I was doing...
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