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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?
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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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English Mum |
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...
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English Mum |
Nov 14th, 2011
Trout with a lime and caper butter sauce
I’m REALLY enjoying this Fish is the Dish project. They send a ‘fish parcel’ every couple of weeks and I get to cook with all sorts of really beautiful fresh fish.
This week, it was some gorgeous fresh trout from a company called Dawnfresh. The colours were absolutely amazing. We all gathered round oohing and ahhing at the beautiful skin (and then had a big family argument about how to...
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English Mum |
Nov 7th, 2011
A trip to Billingsgate Seafood School
I’ve already told you about the lovely chaps at Seafish – they work really hard promoting great quality, sustainable seafood, and their campaign, Fish is the Dish, is all about encouraging us all to eat more fish and the website is a fabulous resource for recipes, cooking tips and advice about choosing and cooking fish.
They’d noticed the Sea Bass debacle, and invited me up to Billingsgate...
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English Mum |
Nov 3rd, 2011
Ugly face chicken pies for bonfire night
I’m not completely sure where I first saw this recipe. Rest assured it wasn’t my idea – I’m thinking maybe Martha Stewart or somewhere like that?
Anyhoo, if you’re entertaining on bonfire night, these little beauties are a great talking point. If you don’t fancy chicken, just fill them with your usual minced beef recipe, or even just squeeze sausagemeat out of the casing...
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English Mum |
Oct 31st, 2011
Scary severed fingers with black bat’s blood sauce (oh alright then, ‘posh’ fish fingers with olive tapenade)
You know when you write up a whole recipe, then the internet gremlins get to work over the weekend and delete it all? Yes, that.
Ah well, I’ve blown my nose, wiped my tears, and here’s my second attempt at telling you all about our spooky Halloween fishy supper. I was sent a lovely, fresh box of coley and haddock from the lovely chaps at Seafish over the weekend, and challenged to make them as...
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Oct 23rd, 2011
Nick Coffer’s Weekend Kitchen on BBC Three Counties Radio. Eek!
So first of all, I have to be honest, I’ve said no to coming on this show A LOT. Luckily for me, I think Nick could see through my thin veneer of nonchalance to the terrified wobbling jelly within and just kept on asking until I said yes.
Originally I was going to do the Christmas show, but then it was all change and suddenly it was this Saturday. I was overcome with a mixture of excitement, nerves...
