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Feb 19th, 2012
Step by step pancakes, and more about cage free eggs
We love pancake day. Let’s face it there aren’t many days in the year when we go ‘sod it, let’s skip dinner and go straight for dessert’ so being total gluttons, Shrove Tuesday (21st Feb) is a big favourite in the English household.
Even if you’re not very confident at cooking, it’s really easy to make pancakes. Here’s a little step by step guide.
I usually...
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English Mum |
Feb 17th, 2012
Review: Cartmel Village Shop Puddings
I get sent quite a few things, and generally my neighbours are very good at taking parcels in for me if I’m not around. The agreement is reciprocal and often sweetened by the odd freebie here and there. Today, though, when I dropped round to my neighbour, clutching my ‘your parcel has been left at number 2′ card, he seemed rather reluctant to...
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Feb 16th, 2012
The Red Tractor debate: how do we guarantee we’re buying high welfare pork?
Dearest reader, I won’t even link to the video I saw on Sunday morning. I don’t want you to see it. The content is so vile, so disgusting, so heart-wrenchingly violent, merciless and cruel that I actually cried. If you want to see it, feel free to search, but I won’t ever be watching it again.
Let me explain. Recently on my Facebook page, I saw that Red Tractor had posted the following...
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English Mum |
Feb 15th, 2012
The ‘baked with love bakeoff’: and the winner is:
So yesterday I showed you all the beautiful entries to the ‘baked with love’ bakeoff.
Lovely Helen, our judge and resident wino (sorry, wine expert) had a terrible time picking a winner, but eventually decided on the one she’d most like to scoff (perfect way to choose, I reckon), which was…
Mari’s amazingly squishy chocolate, mascarpone and raspberry tarts.
Congratulations, Mari,...
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English Mum |
Feb 14th, 2012
The ‘baked with love’ bakeoff: the entries
So here they are, then, in all their glory – the wondrous, creative, impressive and lovingly baked entries to the ‘baked with love’ bakeoff.
I can’t quite believe that everyone’s worked so hard and am very grateful to everyone who took part – especially those who made me laugh sending tweets to the judge telling her how beautiful/clever/fabulous she is. Made my day.
The...
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English Mum |
Feb 13th, 2012
Sod the flowers this Valentine’s Day. I want a steak bouquet.
Not a lover of Valentine’s Day?
Don’t fancy chocolates?
Allergic to flowers?
I’ve got just the thing. Quality Standard Beef and Lamb have told me about one of their butchers, Antony Bowness from Tewkesbury who has created the stuff of my Valentine’s dreams: a steak bouquet. Apparently the bouquet is made up of ‘carefully sculpted sirloin steaks’.
Antony said: “I get...
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English Mum |
Feb 10th, 2012
Yeo Em Gee! They’re ‘yeoganic’, don’t you know… A visit to Yeo Valley.
So earlier this week I was up and about at some ungodly hour, puzzling as to where exactly the car park spaces were supposed to be under several inches of ice in a windswept train station car park.
Still, it got better, as when we got to Yeo Valley’s beautiful organic garden and tea rooms in Somerset, they’d got the log fire burning and tea and biccies laid out ready for us (home made chocolate and...
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English Mum |
Feb 6th, 2012
Chocolate orange brownies with bitter chocolate orangettes
Still in pursuit of the perfect chocolate brownie, then, I made these while my children were out making giant… erm.. appendages out of snow. I would show you a video but they’re all disgusting and their grandparents might see. I don’t know where they get it from.
These brownies are utterly lush and slightly more ‘grown up’ than the version I usually make (George’s chocolate...
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English Mum |
Jan 31st, 2012
English Mum’s ‘baked with love’ Bakeoff – who says romance is dead?
So it’s bakeoff time again! I wanted to do something around Valentine’s day, because you guys always bake the most amazing things, BUT I don’t want to limit you all to just heart-shaped things, oh no. So our theme for this bakeoff is ‘baked with love‘.
If you’re not loved up, but just want to bake yourself a big mahoosive cake to eat in bed while watching a film, that’s...
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English Mum |
Jan 27th, 2012
A healthier blueberry and lemon loaf
So the weekend was somewhat traumatic. I won’t fill you in on all the events, but needless to say being trapped in a packed train carriage all the way from Shepherds Bush while the three teenagers I was escorting serenaded their fellow commuters with loud renditions of My Horse is Amazing (seriously – don’t bother watching it, it’s that bad) and then being politely told that we were,...
