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Dec 21st, 2011
Squishy lemon iced buns with a hibiscus icing
When I was in Dubai, I loved that they used Hibiscus in cooking, and in tea. It has a flavour – and colour – similar to cranberry – fruity but tart – so when I saw some in the Bastakiya market I nabbed some, feeling that it would be excellent around Christmas time. Here’s my first Christmassy experiment. I...
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Dec 20th, 2011
Big Mad Cookery Dad’s amazing Limotiramalee!
So when I was on Nick Coffer’s fabulous Weekend Kitchen show on BBC 3 Counties radio, I met the lovely Christian, AKA Big Mad Cookery Dad. He made this fabulous dessert and it was soooo good, I’ve asked him to share it with you. So without further ado, here’s Chris:
Thank you so much for your kind invitation to share a Big Mad Cookery Dad concoction amongst your Christmas recipes. Here...
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English Mum |
Dec 18th, 2011
Jaffa Cake Christmas Trees
So you’re going to love this. No, really, it’s a winner.
How about…
Home made jaffa cakes? Wait… wait…
In the shape of Christmas trees!
I know, right?
If, like me, you’re now wild with excitement (or even if you’re not) do have a go at making these little beauties. They taste absolutely fab and can be made in normal paper fairy cake wrappers if you’re not imbued with quite as much Christmas...
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English Mum |
Dec 17th, 2011
Icing your Christmas cake: the marzipan and fondant icing layers
Okay so last time we saw your Christmas cake it was stashed somewhere wrapped in parchment or foil and being occasionally sloshed with a bit of booze. Now it’s time for the final push… the decoration!
Making your own marzipan (or almond paste) is really easy. There are recipes everywhere so I won’t bore you with that bit. You can also pick up a block of marzipan at your local supermarket....
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English Mum |
Dec 8th, 2011
Spiced apple yoghurt cake and waiting to see if I won the X Factor…
So this weekend is the big X Factor final. As you know I work with Yeo Valley and I’ve really enjoyed their ads this year – their ‘boy band’, The Churned, has frankly been better than a lot of the actual acts!
If you missed it (or just love The Churned), the advert will be playing during the X Factor ad break this Saturday. And on Sunday, the winner of the Yeo Valley singalong competition...
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English Mum |
Nov 29th, 2011
Easy peasy Christmas pudding (gluten free if you need it to be)
Okay, okay, so we’ve missed Stir-up Sunday, but honestly, it doesn’t matter. If you still fancy doing a bit of lovely therapeutic stirring in the kitchen for Christmas, and filling your house with delicious Christmassy smells, there’s plenty of time. PLUS this one’s so easy I absolutely, faithfully promise you that it will turn out absolutely perfectly. How about that for a guarantee?
As...
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English Mum |
Nov 27th, 2011
Apricot, pear and apple chilli chutney
Christmas is THE time for chutney. Quite apart from the turkey leftovers, there’s all that ham, and tons of lovely cheese – a tangy chutney accompaniment is a must.
This chutney is loosely based on the cranberry and apple chutney in Nigella Christmas, but inspired by my very clever friend Katie, from Feeding Boys, who made a lovely autumnal pear chutney, I decided to pop in some pears and dried...
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English Mum |
Nov 25th, 2011
Fish on Friday! Gorgeous kedgeree
So as you know I’m involved with the Fish is the Dish project, a fabulous endeavour from Seafish.org encouraging families to eat more fish. Basically I get challenged every couple of weeks to cook with a different fish ( love it when my delivery man appears at the door clutching my parcel – it’s like a fish version of Christmas). This week it was beautiful fillets of undyed smoked haddock...
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Nov 22nd, 2011
Roast figs with brown sugar and cinnamon, inspired by Diana Henry
I absolutely love Diana Henry. Her book ‘Food from Plenty’ is one of my absolute favourites, so I was delighted to be offered a copy of her ‘Roast Figs, Sugar Snow’.
This book is just gorgeous. It’s all about Autumn and Winter, and the ingredients: figs, pumpkins, maple syrup, chestnuts, cranberries, quinces, are so evocative of the seasons. It’s like a massive warm...
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English Mum |
Nov 20th, 2011
An ‘heirloom’, personalised Christmas Cake recipe
I’ve written at length (and ad nauseum, probably) about Christmas cake before. There are all sorts of Christmas cake recipes out there – those ones that have been handed down from grandparents and great grandparents, and others from Delia or Nigella that people swear by.
As I’ve said before, I’ve got a bit of an aversion to food snobbery, and a healthy addiction to the ‘bung it all in and see what...
