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English Mum |
Sep 17th, 2011
Baked sea bass with lemon and parsley (and whiffy plasters)
So English Dad has a large Asda near his work and often drops in for random stuff like all the various pills, potions and herbal whatnots he pops every morning for his bones and his joints and his whatevers (‘what? I’m getting old’), prune juice (remind me to tell you about the prune juice incident, it’s a cracker) and, occasionally, to have a quick perusal of the fish counter.
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English Mum |
Sep 12th, 2011
Slow cooked leek and tomato pasta sauce: versatile and sneakily healthy
I’ve been writing on Ready for Ten recently (I would link to it but it’s not published yet – patience, grasshopper) about the age old dilemma of getting the kids to eat enough fruit and veg. I make this sauce a lot (I use it as soup as well) and although it’s got plenty of green veg in, it still looks like plain ol’ tomato which puts paid to ‘ewww – what’s that?’...
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English Mum |
Jul 26th, 2011
Roast chicken with a lemon up its bum: step by step
So we’ve trifled with titles: roast lemon chicken, poulet au citron… whatever. In our house it always comes back to ‘roast chicken with a lemon up its bum’. Anatomically correct? Probably not, but it’s kind of stuck.
Roast chicken is the easiest of meals. A quick fiddle, bung it in the oven and your work is done. First things first, though, you must choose your chicken...
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English Mum |
Jul 8th, 2011
Pork loin roasted with apricot and sage (with Jimmy’s free range rare breed pork)
Fellow guest at Jimmy’s Farm, the lovely Marie from food blog The English Kitchen, suggested over dinner that I try pork with apricots. It sounded such a lovely combo that I thought I’d give it a try with the large loin of beautiful free range rare breed pork I was given at the farm:
4 pork loin steaks
3 apricots
4 or 5 sage leaves
1 glass cider or apple juice
Double cream
Heat up a heavy based...
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English Mum |
Jun 28th, 2011
Hugs, dinner, Waitrose, oh and prawn and courgette pasta with fresh peas
So we’re home, then.
The last few days have been a bit of a whirl, what with the drunken madness that was the Cybermummy Conference this weekend, but we’ve got everything into the storage locker (the last few things were just hurled in, to be honest) and my long-suffering mum is looking after us until we move in to our new pad. The Ninja Cat of Death was very good on the way over – apart...
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English Mum |
Jun 8th, 2011
An Arabian evening: lemon and mint cocktails, hummus and Arabic Chicken Machboos
Lemon and mint cocktail
On our amazing trip to Dubai, we were served a refreshing drink made of lemon and mint. I got quite addicted and since coming home have found myself drinking it a lot, with the addition of a slightly less traditional little ‘freshener’ of gin. Oh it makes all the difference. Those little minxes at British Mummy Bloggers challenged me to vlog a summer recipe, so I cheated...
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English Mum |
Mar 23rd, 2011
Marco Pierre White and Bernard Matthews: a ‘bootiful’ friendship?
I know, sorry. No more puns, I promise.
Have you seen the new advert for this campaign, though? It’s Marco Pierre White and Martin Kemp eating in a restaurant together. The interesting thing is that their conversation was unscripted (as you can tell when Martin starts to squirm slightly after describing his wife’s turkey as ‘a bit dry’!) and although it’s a bit funny, it...
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English Mum |
Mar 12th, 2011
A Yeo Valley surprise and cooking with yogurt
Recently, the lovely chaps at Yeo Valley set me a little challenge: ‘fancy checking out a few of our products and then letting us know how you cook with them?’ ’No probs’, I said, ‘piece of cake’ (see what I did there?). So yesterday I had a call from a courier. Not your normal ‘yes, I’m just leaving Dublin – can I have directions?’ (you want...
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English Mum |
Jan 7th, 2011
Ben’s 24 hour slow roasted pork
Fellow blogger and tweeter, Ben, from Mutterings of a Fool was telling me all about the fabulous slow-roasted pork he was going to cook for his family over Christmas, so of course I persuaded him to give us the recipe (and take photos). Over to Ben, then. And no dribbling on the keyboard, now.
When cooking for a large number of people...
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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...
