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Beef and Soy Casserole with Coriander Dumplings
Beef and Soy Casserole with Coriander Dumplings Recipe I love a casserole, but sadly, I am very much alone in my house with this stew based adoration. The boys used to love my Annabel Karmel beef and...
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Tiny Treacle Pecan Tarts
Tiny Treacle Pecan Tarts Recipe This Thursday sees Americans celebrating Thanksgiving. This holiday, sadly, doesn’t extend to the UK, as I could definitely do with an extra day off this week to get my...
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Red Wine Hot Chocolate
Red Wine Hot Chocolate Recipe It’s so nearly December now which means I feel I can legitimately abandon all diet and healthy eating programmes until 2nd January 2018. No more 5:2, carbs-a-plenty and...
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Big Pork and Prosciutto Meatballs
Big Pork and Prosciutto Meatballs Recipe I know, I know, we should be eating some salad and keeping the carbs down to a dull roar in the run up to Christmas. But, I am now of the opinion, for me at...
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Syrup Croissant Bread and Butter Pudding
Syrup Croissant Bread and Butter Pudding Recipe This is a super easy winter pudding. I have made this a couple of times now and am a tiny bit in love with it. It features my most favourite ingredient...
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A Cloudy Sky Cocktail for a Winter Friday
Cloudy Sky Cocktail It’s freezing outside, I have just put a 5th log on the fire and I’m watching an old Nigella Christmas show on the television. Heaven after what has been a pretty crap week. All...
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Cheese and Marmite Rolls – Sausage Free
Cheese and Marmite Rolls Recipe Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a pastry based nibble. To be fair, I eat pastry based nibbles all year round and have the waist line to prove it. However, I do...
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A Chocolate Salame for Christmas
Chocolate Salame Recipe I am starting to obsess over Christmas food and it’s only the first week of December. I don’t have a single mince pie or sausage roll in the freezer yet and this may start to...
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Cranberry Citrus Cup
Cranberry Citrus Cup Recipe It has reached the point in December when you can no longer play the ‘I only drink at the weekends’ card. 11 months of the year, that’s how I like to play it, with the...
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White Bean, Bacon and Truffle Soup
White Bean, Bacon and Truffle Soup Recipe Clyde often feels slightly aggrieved being served soup. It’s classed as not quite a meal, more of a snack and in his mind, could be hugely improved if served...
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Festive Mincemeat Crumble Slice
Mincemeat Crumble Slice Recipe This is a recipe born out of my balls being literally nailed to the wall at this time of the year. Not literally speaking, as of course I don’t have a set of balls,...
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Creme Caramel Fizz
Creme Caramel Fizz Recipe When those lovely people at Aldi said they would send me the drinks to fashion my Christmas cocktails, I nearly cried. Cried with joy, of course, because I am a huge fan, as...
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A Family Salmon Coulibiac For Christmas Eve
Salmon Coulibiac Recipe Sometimes all the fun and excitement can go out of Christmas. All the shopping, squabbling, shopping, lists, illness, by the time you get to the big day itself you are on your...
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Festive Salted Caramel Yule Log
Salted Caramel Yule Log Recipe Salted caramel is one of those flavours which doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. And quite rightly so, I think, it’s the most delicious combination and goes beyond the...
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A Chilled Glass of Eggnog
Eggnog Recipe Eggnog is one of those lovely, almost legendary drinks, spoken about in American tv shows and books, but never really known or enjoyed in this country. The closest I had ever got to...
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Clementine Gin to see in the New Year
Clementine Gin Recipe New Year is not the time to consider your 2018 detox programme. Leave it until next week and treat yourself to one more tiny drink before you say hello to the new year and the...
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Egg and Bacon Ramen Noodles
Egg and Bacon Ramen Noodles Recipe I feel I have pretty much spent the last 10 days in the kitchen. This is usually my chosen place in the house to inhabit/hide, however, when I am forced to be there,...
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Homemade Ginger Shots to Keep the Doctor Away
Ginger Shots Recipe I recently bought a Ginger Shot from the supermarket for a friend and I to try instead of rocking up at her house at midday on a Friday with a cake or a bottle of wine. I wasn’t...
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A Reyka Vodka Gimlet
Reyka Vodka Gimlet Recipe I know January is meant to be dry, but I am ignoring dull new traditions and have decided to crack on through with the drinking into the new year. And if you are going to...
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A Heart Warming Lentil Chilli
Lentil Chilli Recipe I feel I am often left lacking where vegetarians and vegans are concerned. I am a committed eater of meat and dairy produce, not on an enormous scale, but, as a family, we don’t...
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