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Eat And Two Veg: Cooking in other people’s kitchens
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Cooking in other people’s kitchens. Sometimes, cooking is about making do in a kitchen you did not have a hand in planning or equipping. It’s about dealing with someone else’s preferences, moving into someone else’s life for a spell. Little has changed since the 1980s, including the pink bathroom and the tortoiseshell cabinet fronts in the kitchen. However, on our recent visit in December 2012, we were delighted to find a new oven (the old one had long since died) and a new cooktop as well. In an earlier...
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Eat And Two Veg: Guerrilla pancakes
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Calling all Enid Blyton fans. Anyone who grew up reading her books will probably remember their way 'in' to Blyton-land. For some, it will have been the capers of the Famous Five or the Secret Seven. Others might have come to her via the boarding school shenanigans of the girls of Malory Towers and St Clare's. For me, it was the Adventure Series. A slightly roundabout way of getting to this blog, but I've had Lucy-Anne's refrain in mind after some recent adventures of my own. Last week was Shrove Tuesday.
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Eat And Two Veg: Perfect pound cake
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This holiday weekend should have provided an opportunity to try out some new dishes. Instead, I returned to something old for our Easter Sunday dessert. I've received a lot of good recipes from both of my grandmothers over the years. Indeed, Grandma's shortbread. There's a reason it is always first choice for birthdays and other special occasions in our house. 1 1/2 cups sugar. 1/3 tsp ground mace. 1 1/2 tsp baking powder. Sift the flour, mace, salt and baking powder three. Pour the whole lot into a grea...
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Eat And Two Veg: 'Tis the season
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While doing so). Advent calendars, which I will apparently never be too old for. And the food. Most especially the baking. This weekend I had some good friends around for an early celebration. There were smoked salmon sandwiches and there was Prosecco, because tea just seemed too prosaic. There were orange cupcakes with chocolate icing. And there was gingerbread cake. Which was too good not to share. Gingerbread cake with lime. Adapted from Mary Berry. 250g/8oz dark muscovado sugar. 5 tsp ground ginger.
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Eat And Two Veg: Post St. Patrick's Day stew - no pun intended.
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Post St. Patrick's Day stew - no pun intended. Calling all crock pots. Or perhaps just all crocks, for on cold and snowy days like today, I feel quite 'crock-ish'. This is my variation on Irish Stew. No, make that just a stew with Ireland in mind. I didn't even think to blog it until it was ready to serve so the pictures are what I got with my phone at the last minute. The stew, however, was very good and Kit will be getting a portion tomorrow since he couldn't be here tonight. 3 tablespoons olive oil.
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Eat And Two Veg: November 2014
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An apology, and an autumn cracker of a soup. Yes, it is more than a year. Since anyone last thought of this poor neglected blog, myself included. I’ve been cooking, some, but a year full of travelling and music and movies (both watching and helping to make one! And various other life changes have conspired to prevent me from spending much time writing outside of work, or being home much to do the kind of culinary experimentation that I so enjoy. It started life as a carrot soup on my very favourite blog.
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Eat And Two Veg: Em's Favourite Things Mini Pie Cups
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Em's Favourite Things Mini Pie Cups. I couldn't let the occasion pass without indulging in some thoroughly unmathematical culinary celebrating, but I was grimly determined not to venture out in the cold, so I improvised based on the awesome things I already had in my house. This makes four mini-pies in those little glass ramekins the likes of which you get creme brulée in. Dollops, to taste, of peanut butter and nutella. Approximately 1 shot of coffee (optional, adjust to taste). Preheat oven to 200c.
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Eat And Two Veg: August 2013
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The Devil's Fish Strikes Back. I thought that I was rid of my anchovies. I thought that I wouldn't need to cook with them again. No more tangy weirdness annoying my palate. But I was wrong. I was so, so wrong. I looked in my fridge to find three remaining anchovies in a Tupperware box: my nemeses, waiting to be added to an innocent, unsuspecting recipe. I couldn't throw them away; I can't bare to waste food. I had to find another recipe that used them. fast. Volume: roast leg of lamb with baker's potatoes.
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Eat And Two Veg: My new Best Friends Forever
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My new Best Friends Forever. I suppose everyone goes through phases in which one cannot get enough of a certain foodstuff or method of cooking and develops a sudden passion, like those of adolescents for a temporary crush. What you see here is an unremarkable weeknight dinner, with a mix of brown and red rice, ground pork, onion, red and yellow peppers, zucchini (courgettes), and kale, in my wonderful new skillet. I hasten to add that I am not being paid by the Gastrolux people or the Kale Kouncil of Ame...
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