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waf·fles
Dimples!I have been wanting a waffle maker for quite a while now, and I finally gave in. I thought (correctly!) that M, our one year old daughter would love them. And, surprisingly, waffles are a...
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Waldorf Salad
Waldorf Salad was created by the maître d’ of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in the closing decades of the Nineteenth Century. First made with only apples, celery and mayonnaise, walnuts...
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Oven Roasted Vegetable Curry
Who needs crushed beetils when you have beetroot? Happy New Year! For an auspicious start to 2011 try a vegetable curry : easy, healthy, fast and delicious. All good resolutions. I saw a recipe ages...
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ku·ma·ra and chick·pea frit·ters
Mmmm, crispy, cheesey vegetable goodness!Last night we had baked kumara with steak and an awesome brussel sprout and cavalo nero dish as recommended specified by our friend Rachel. However since I had...
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roast pork
Crackling crackling and I am the only one except Nico the dog who will eat it! Luck!We received a share in a pig on Friday and I have been looking forward roasting my part of the leg since it arrived!...
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lorne sau·sage
Roll on sausage has been our Christmas morning tradition for many years now. Eaten while we all open our stockings, it is the best kind of breakfast to nibble on while your hands are busy pulling off...
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va·nil·la cream cheese logs
As I have mentioned G was sick on his birthday, and as I have also mentioned chocolate Guinness cake is part of the birthday tradition. So, the Wednesday prior I prepare for the G-birthday by a...
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po·ta·to leek and ri·cot·ta pas·ty
pas·ty not past·yI try to plan our week's meals. I also try to stick to the plan. Most of the time I do because it does make things easier, but sometimes the planned meal is exactly what we don't feel...
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ku·ma·ra and chick·pea frit·ters
Last night we had baked kumara with steak and an awesome brussel sprout and cavalo nero dish as recommended specified by our fried Rachel. However since I had decided to bake all the kumara in our...
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DMBLGIT : the win·ners!
There were so many wonderful photos entered in the October round of Does My Blog Look Good In This! The standard of photography was incredibly high ; we all enjoyed the task of judging. We decided on 3...
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chick·en bar·be·rry·a·ni
This month Owen decided that Paper Chef should involve Barberries, Pumpkin, Spinach and Slow. I was rather pleased with the line up ; I had suggested barberries as a Paper Chef ingredient a wee while...
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ha·ris·sa
Harissa can dress up many a dish :Serve on top of a plain piece of griddled meat to turn it into something much more exciting.Stir into yoghurt and use as a dip.Include in a sandwich of left over roast...
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mar·zi·pan cake
Here is a version of a Nigella Lawson recipe that just turned out so well ; she is right it is an Easy Almond Cake (from How to be a Domestic Goddess).The almondness comes from marzipan and almond...
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New Zea·land blog·ging by post
Don't you think it would be lovely to put together a parcel for a fellow New Zealand blogger, send it off, and then wait with excitement until a parcel full of goodies arrives on your doorstep for...
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po·ta·to topped pie
New Zealand on a Plate! Sorry, Board.Gosh! Could there be anything more New Zealand than a Potato Topped Pie. Sure, many, many countries have a starch topped pie. England has the Cottage Pie and the...
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con·grat·u·la·tions!
To save me the problem of choosing the best way to use ricotta in order to win some fabulous Le Creuset goodies and of course some Perfect Italiano Ricotta I decided to let random.org do the hard work!...
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win!
How would you like a wonderful Le Creuset baking dish, ramekins and spatula plus some Perfect Italiano Ricotta? Of course you would! And all courtesy of Perfect Italiano Ricotta. All you have to do is...
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spin·ach ri·cot·ta can·nel·lo·ni
Pretty rolls of green red and white.A good purposeful vegetarian dinner, packed full of vegetables and protein is what us omnivores need more often. By purposeful I mean made on purpose, not just a...
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Tattie Scones
Better than bread, pancakes or toast!So, what could be better than bread, pancakes or toast? For breakfast that is? Well the answer is all in the the title : Tattie Scones!Tattie scones are Scotland's...
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fe·la·fel
Felafel are balls of chickpea goodness!I make felafel on a regular basis. I think that part of their charm is that they take very little actual effort and that effort is best spread over several days ;...
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spic·y chips
Here's a Friday night idea for you : Spicy chips eaten with mushy peas and vinegar.Spicy Chips1 large potato per person, about 250g eachOlive oilCayenne pepperWhite pepperBlack pepperSaltPeel the...
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sour·dough
One of the best times to have fresh bread is on a saturday morning : the crusts almost immediately with just fresh butter as a sneaky snack, then some more once it has cooled for a late breakfast/early...
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pump·kin ce·le·ri·ac soup
One of my favourite blogs, Cook Almost Anything, recently showed a wonderful recipe for Jap Pumpkin Soup with Curried Onions. I really can only begin to tell you what a clever idea I thought it was to...
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Nut Loaf
Don't laugh.Don't laugh. I said, don't laugh. We had nut loaf for dinner this evening. When I asked G at lunchtime if he had any dinner requests, he replied :Nut loaf.I was three quarters sure he was...
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