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English Mum |
Dec 22nd, 2010
How do I cook the turkey? English Mum’s easy peasy guide to Christmas dinner
Soooo here comes the big day! There’s just the four of us this year, but whether you’re catering for 15 or it’s just you and your other half, the golden rule is the same as ever: Christmas day is a happy, family day. Please don’t get stressed and fall apart. Just think of it as a big roast dinner – a turkey is very forgiving and will happily rest for a good hour (and probably...
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English Mum |
Sep 15th, 2010
A teeny weeny creamy chicken and ham pie
So I might have mentioned that, along with one child, the only other stuff I could bring when we set sail for the fair Emerald Isle was whatever I could fit in the car (oh, and the Cat of Death – but you’ve heard that story). We squeezed in a few pots and pans, my scales, some cups and plates, but not a great deal else. All the rest of it will be arriving with the shippers some time the week after...
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English Mum |
Sep 5th, 2010
Easy paprika chicken with garlic roasted vegetable couscous
Easy peasy one, this. Tomato sauce forms the basis of a large number of our meals as it’s one thing that everyone really likes. I tend to buy the large jars of passata (sieved tomatoes) as de brevren are not over fond of lumps (insert your own joke here). You can use this sauce for masses of other things, or keep the chicken, ditch the paprika, and just serve with rice or potatoes. Oh and if...
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English Mum |
Jun 2nd, 2010
Sticky soy, lemon and ginger chicken
Ooh I love the sunshine. One of the few downsides of living in Ireland was watching the weather forecast and seeing that our family at home in the south of England were enjoying weather a good 6 or 7 degrees warmer than us.
Happily, we’re now enjoying those extra degrees (interspersed with a few proper English days of torrential rain – just to keep us in our place), plus a few more it would...
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English Mum |
Feb 24th, 2010
Healthy baked chicken burgers with help from the glamorous Turtle
So during half term, my adorable twin niece and nephew, Miss Turtle and Mr Jackson came to stay with my two chisellers. We decided to have a blow-out junk food and video night and Turtle agreed to be my glamorous assistant, tearing herself away from her mobile phone and nail file (how the girl doesn’t have stumps for fingers the amount of filing she does, I’ll never know) for just long enough...
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English Mum |
Feb 7th, 2010
Sunday lunch: slow roasted shoulder of lamb with red wine gravy
I have my friend and fellow blogger Mrs Wallop to thank for this one. I was at the butcher’s a couple of weeks ago, and was rather taken by a whole shoulder of lamb, which I bought on a whim because it was cheap. Shoulder has by far the tastiest meat, but isn’t a pretty joint. Still, it has… erm… ‘character’, shall we say.
Anyhoo, later, when it was sitting staring at...
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English Mum |
Jan 22nd, 2010
Chicken dhansak (spicy chicken and lentil stew)
Every time we have a takeaway from the local Indian Restaurant, Hubby always raves about their Chicken Dhansak. It’s kind of a lentily, thick and very slightly sweet chicken curry with a powerful kick of chilli. I’ve been trying to recreate it for a while and I think, judging by his reaction, I’m nearly there. It’s great served with my cheaty flatbreads and once you’ve got...
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English Mum |
Dec 24th, 2009
Turkey, stuffing and a very merry Christmas
So that’s it, then. The big day is shortly upon us and I’m looking forward to a small family Christmas (just us, English Grandma and maybe Mad Uncle Ali in the afternoon) at our new little house in Hertfordshire.
Wherever you are and whoever you’re with, I wish you all a wonderful, indulgent Christmas.
And as always, remember to chill out, have fun, stick on your glad rags, enjoy your precious...
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English Mum |
Nov 12th, 2009
Beef, red wine and onion puff pastry pie
Moving on, then, because frankly, a girl’s got to eat, even when she’s packing. Here’s a nice, warming, saying-goodbye-to-Ireland kind of pie. This is the kind of pie to eat with a big pile of mashed potato whilst looking out of your window at the rain driving horizontally across the garden, and feeling smug that you’re not out there, but in here with a big piece of pie.
So. You’ll...
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English Mum |
Sep 20th, 2009
Chicken & broccoli pie with step by step easy shortcrust pastry
A funny thing happened on Friday afternoon. A chap knocked on the door and delivered an enormous wicker hamper, stuffed with every possible seasonal vegetable you can imagine. I was in the garden, and was, frankly, slightly confused when #2 came out to find me and declare that ‘some bloke just dropped off a big box of broccoli and stuff’. Anyhoo, it turned out not to be an anonymous food parcel...
