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English Mum |
Sep 28th, 2010
Spelt flour pizzas with honey tomato sauce
The lovely Tara Cain has a gallery every week where everyone can enter their photographs, based on different themes. I’m not much of a photographer, but this week the gallery theme is food! How could I not enter?! And so especially for Tara, and embracing the spirit of the gallery, I’m spreading the love and telling everyone about a fellow blogger/foodie, the lovely Vanessa, here’s...
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English Mum |
Apr 2nd, 2010
Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross Buns…
So this is slightly cheating as after I’d finished my lovely hot cross buns, I realised I’d forgotten to take any pictures. So here, then, in a bit of a ‘mash-oop’, as De Brevren would say is a new recipe, with pics from last year.
This recipe takes a bit of time, but is one of those recipes that’s just so much better home-made than bought. So set aside a chilly Easter weekend...
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English Mum |
Dec 22nd, 2009
Easy Christmas Stollen
So if you’re snowed in, or just fancy a nice afternoon of Christmassy cooking in the kitchen, I can think of nothing finer than stollen. Not only is it yummy, but the smell of it cooking is just the finest thang ever.
As you can see from the picture, I actually made mine when I was back at English Towers in Ireland (it was for a magazine article, so they were unseasonably made in October), but they...
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English Mum |
Sep 26th, 2009
Grandma Maudie’s Cranberry Teabread
So you know when you have that afternoon lull and you think ‘hmm, what I need is a nice cup of tea and piece of cake?’ Well Hubby had exactly that feeling this afternoon – a sudden, inexplicable craving for Christmas cake. A quick rummage in the cupboards revealed a bit of a motley assortment of half packets of various golden sultanas, raisins and ‘fruit mix’ (arrghhh! Peel!) and it got me...
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English Mum |
Aug 18th, 2009
Easy tandoori chicken with cheaty flatbreads
We had this for lunch today and I realised I’ve never posted this little beauty before. I’m almost embarrassed to pass on the chicken recipe to you as it’s barely more than mixing a few ingredients together, but it’s soooo good and makes the house smell so delicious that I think you deserve it. Here goes, then:
For the tandoori chicken:
4 heaped tbsp plain yoghurt
1 tbsp tandoori...
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English Mum |
Jul 28th, 2009
1970s ginger cake – the newer, stickier, betterer…er version
So ginger cake, then. Regular, eagle-eyed viewers amongst you will remember that I found my original, childishly scrawled version of this little beauty tucked inside one of my Ma’s old cookery books a while back and recreated it with some success. Since then, though, I’ve been feverishly working on it after being stung by a comment of Hubby’s that it wasn’t ‘sticky enough’. ...
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English Mum |
Jul 13th, 2009
Sticky, gooey, plumptious, scrumptious, soft iced buns
So poor little #2 came home from his GAA tournament yesterday feeling all under the weather. He was cold and clammy, his head ached, his tummy hurt and he felt all ‘kind of wobbly’. Of course, there’s only one cure for this particular group of symptoms, which is a snuggle on the sofa with the dog, the fluffy blanket, a hot chocolate and a fistful of sticky bun. Trust me, I’m a...
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English Mum |
Apr 10th, 2009
The Good Friday photo: Hot cross buns or ‘not cross buns’: you decide.
So I’ve gone a bit hot cross bun mental recently. I was testing recipes for them ages ago for the magazine as I think I mentioned, and as people keep scoffing them, I’ve just kept making more and more. I’ve made them with crosses cut in the top, with crosses piped on, with crosses dribbled on… with no crosses piped on…I’ve made them in round tins, or on baking trays…...
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English Mum |
Mar 14th, 2009
Bagels: the rather scrummy roll with a hole
I love my kitchen. I’d love it more if it was painted pink, but that’s a bit contentious on the Hubby front and might take some serious marital bargaining, probably best not described on a family blog such as this. Still, today I had a bit of a reorganisation (well, I suppose I should say ‘we’, seeing as it involved taking plugs off things and drilling holes) and moved the microwave...
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English Mum |
Mar 1st, 2009
Easy home made brown bread
Ah, Sunday morning. The perfect time for pottering in the kitchen. There’s coffee on the stove and a satisfying stack of papers to get through. This morning I fiddled with my recipe for brown bread and it came out rather well, even if I say so myself. This recipe is an adaptation of one of Rachel...
