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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 |
Dec 21st, 2007
Boozy Ginger Biscuit Chocolate Log
Oh, and me and me Mam were reminiscing about this little beauty. It was a Christmas tradition in our house and it may sound weird but it tastes bloody fab.
1 packet ginger biscuits
Sherry or orange juice (ooh, or Morgan’s Spiced Rum would be great)
Double Cream, whipped
Dark chocolate
So take each biscuit individually and then dunk it in the sherry (or orange juice if you’ve got kids eating this...
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English Mum |
Dec 6th, 2007
Pastry Cakey Christmas Mince Pies
You know when you were little and your Mum used to make stuff that you liked so much it stuck in your memory? With me Mam, it was Sunday lunch – well, not so much the actual lunch as the pudding, which could be proper steamed treacle or jam sponge, or a yummy rice pudding that she used to bake slowly in the oven…mmmmm.
Anyhoo, digressing. Apparently when Hubby was little, his Ma used to make these...
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English Mum |
Nov 10th, 2007
Disgustingly Fattening Chocolate Fudge Brownie Cake
225g good quality dark chocolate
6 oz butter
3 eggs
8 oz caster sugar
4oz plain flour
For the ganache:
Small tub double cream
Small bar dark or white chocolate
Melt your butter and chocolate in a bain-marie (bowl over saucepan of simmering water) or in the microwave if you’re brave enough, but I always burn it. As always with this type of method, take it off the heat as soon as it’s well on the way...
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English Mum |
Aug 9th, 2007
Double Chocolate and Toffee Muffins
So you know my sneakiness knows no bounds, but while #2 continues to refuse everything healthy apart from carrot sticks, frozen peas and the odd apple I need to keep one step ahead. Breakfast is a particular problem, as he hates milk and smoothies make him gag (we made raspberry and mango ones yesterday and they were absolutely gorgeous – he tried a sip but no, same result: think Dean Gaffney on ‘I’m...
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English Mum |
Jun 13th, 2007
Pistachio & Dark Chocolate Brownies
Another little gastronomic intermission for you today then. Made some pistachio brownies while we had our scary guests and they turned out rather good so seeing as I’m the laziest cook in the world and this is the easiest recipe, I thought I’d share. This is a bastardisation (can I say that?) of my mate C’s fantastically good brownie recipe and Rachel Allen’s one from ‘Rachel’s...
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English Mum |
Apr 25th, 2007
#1′s Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake
Disreputable Dad, having recently discovered technology, is now able to berate me by email (typed, apparently, over several hours and with one finger) as well as phone, and says he doesn’t read the recipes. So here, for everyone except DD, is #1′s chocolate cheesecake. Well, I couldn’t find a chocolate cheesecake recipe anywhere that didn’t involve either baking it (he didn’t want...
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English Mum |
Mar 3rd, 2007
Chocolate and Banana Loaf
Chocolate and Banana Loaf
#1 was off to a choir competition yesterday evening (they came 4th – not bad for their first competition), so I thought I’d make something yummy for them to come home to. I had a couple of leftover bananas that were a bit past their best, so I shoved them into the usual 4/4/4/2 cake mix and I have to say it worked quite well. Here we go then:
4oz butter
4oz caster sugar
4...
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English Mum |
Oct 8th, 2006
Cake a la Lemon
Blimey, Sunday again already. We’ve all decided we’re bored of roasts, so I’m going for a good old fashioned shepherd’s pie today, then by special request of son #2 I’m going to make a lemon cake. Now, seeing as this child doesn’t eat anything, and I worry constantly (as mothers do) about the state of his insides, I reckon that a lemon cake must at least get some vitamin C...
