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English Mum |
Jan 8th, 2012
Healthy recipes: lentil and vegetable soup (remember, lentils are your friend)
So, after promising you a couple of healthy recipes, I then buggered off and promptly forgot all about them. Sorry.
Anyhoo, here I am, back live and a week into my alcohol free month. It’s going well. It’s going really well. I feel fab – and after the amazing facial, my skin’s feeling fab too. I’m drinking much more water (Katy told me that your body often mistakes thirst...
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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 |
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 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 |
Jul 19th, 2010
Indian spiced courgette fritters (pakoras)
One of my favourite recipe books is a very old and slightly crusty ‘Curry Club’ book called 250 Favourite Curries and Accompaniments that my Mum bought me years ago. I was searching high and low for it earlier as I’m currently suffering from a glut of courgettes, and knew that I’d seen a recipe for spicy fritters in there. But no, it was nowhere to be seen (it’s since turned...
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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 |
Sep 24th, 2009
Step by step cheese sauce – comedy cauliflower optional
So one of my happier experiments in the garden were these little beauties. They did have a name, but I’ve bloody forgotten now, although I’m sure Poppy’s Mum or GrowUp, my gardening gurus, will let me know in due course. Yesterday, then, we decided to pick one and test it out.
‘Ooh’, said #1, ‘cauliflower cheese!’.
‘Yum’, said I.
‘Bleurgh’,...
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English Mum |
Aug 26th, 2009
Spicy (or not spicy) lentil dhal
So the ongoing battle here at English Towers is between the chilli lovers and the not-so-chilli lovers. Hubby and #1 would have us eating amounts of chilli that, frankly, would have normal people running madly around in circles, flapping their arms and making choo choo noises with steam coming out of their ears, whereas me and the small, accident-prone version can only handle a gentle amount of spice. ...
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English Mum |
Jun 24th, 2009
Butternut squash and chickpea curry
Righto, then, following swiftly on from the butternut squash risotto, here’s another curry that is used in so many different guises here at English Towers, I’m struggling to know which photos to use. As you know, I’m a big fan of butternut squash, so here’s the basic recipe used with squash, but it’s equally good made with potatoes or cauliflower:
1 butternut squash, peeled...
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English Mum |
Jun 18th, 2009
A Curiously clever combination: butternut squash risotto and NZ wines
I love butternut squash. I love its sweetness, its softness, and its beautiful orangey colour. I love risotto too, and the combination of both of them is one of my favourite meals. I happened to mention to the lovely Matt, fellow blogger and ’Wine Evangelist’ (I love that title) at Curious Wines that I was going to knock up a butternut squash risotto and he very kindly offered to send me...
