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English Mum |
Sep 3rd, 2008
Gardening news, steaks, potato wedges and rhubarb crumble
So I’ve had ups and downs with my first year of vegetable patch ownership. For example, the sweet peas went completely mental but didn’t give me a single bloody flower, the pumpkins, coriander and basil all died (too cold? we didn’t really have any sunshine) and the cucumber covered the whole plot in huge leaves and spidery tentrils, but no cucumbers (well how was I to know it was a...
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English Mum |
Feb 23rd, 2008
Nat’s Chocolate Twister Buns
On meeting a Yorkshireman once, J uttered those immortal words: ‘ooh, I LOVE your puddings’. C has never let her forget it. In the same vein, therefore, if I bumped into Frank Lampard, I’d let him know how much I like his buns (Chelsea buns. Stop it.) So this morning, for your delectation, I present the best recipe I’ve tried in a long time, a delectable choccy kind of Chelsea...
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English Mum |
Feb 14th, 2008
Fruit and nut Swedish Chef flapjacks
You know how you get little bits of leftover cereal that nobody seems to want to finish? Well, for some reason these really annoy the pants off me. Half the time I go to finish them off (even though I hate them – thrifty, moi) only to find they’re all cardboardy and chewy. This, then, is usually the time I make flapjacks. I have a sort of dustbin approach to flapjack making – anything...
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English Mum |
Jan 30th, 2008
Pear and Custard Muffins
On Sunday, I made Bill Granger’s banana and butterscotch pudding. Okay, so I admit, I left out the ‘banana and’ bit when I was telling #2 what it was, but he sussed right away. As I was making the custard I was mulling over what gorgeous stuff custard powder is. Remember those yummy rhubarb and custard sweets? So then last night, as I was lying in bed (I know, I know…) I thought ooh,...
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English Mum |
Oct 28th, 2007
Mini Fruit Soda Breads
So we’ve got a house-load this weekend. Me Mam’s over with my twin niece and nephew (The Fleas). The house has echoed to the sounds of thudding little feet, MarioKart wars, raucous laughter and (occasionally) indignant argument. Cries of ‘I’m hungry!’, ‘ow, get off!’, ‘it’s my turn!’ fill the air, and I’ve yet to sleep in past 7am (6am this morning...
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English Mum |
Oct 20th, 2007
Proper Irish Brown Bread
Now I’ll confess I have a tendency to fiddle with recipes. Usually this is just a personal taste thing, or sometimes it can be because they’ve got too many ingredients and I can’t be arsed to put them all in. This time it’s because I live in the middle of bloody nowhere and couldn’t actually find some of the ingredients. The original recipe from my mate 73 (he adds 3 tbsp bran...
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English Mum |
Sep 13th, 2006
Flapjack alert
Time once again, then, for a little culinary interlude. This one was prompted by #2 announcing yesterday that he was ‘too tired’ to eat scrambled egg and toast in the morning (obviously, the use of knife and fork being too much to ask at such an ungodly hour), and there was me thinking I was very ‘yummy mummy’ serving cooked food in the morning (actually, that’s a lie because it...
