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Home made Beef Burgers – you'll never go back
Tonight, Boy the Elder made Beef Burgers for dinner. They were so lovely; the boys had chips and peas with them and I had a stir fry. We like our burgers nice and thick and still a bit pink in the...
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Bread Pudding
Bread Pudding has been around since the 11th century and is an excellent way of using up stale bread. Nowadays, shop bought bread doesn’t go stale in the same way as home-made bread, because of the...
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Easy cupcakes for any occasion
I’m not one for jumping on fashion bandwagons of any kind and I’m sure many of us having been making cupcakes or fairy cakes for as long as we can remember; what’s the big deal? Of course, there isn’t...
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Boy the Younger's Chocolate Cake
Boy the Younger had been on at me to let him make a cake for ages and, as Boy the Elder had been away at Scout Camp for the weekend, it was deemed to be the perfect time to bake something lovely for...
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Banana Splits – and make 'em sticky! (with home made toffee sauce)
A banana split is a lovely pudding and you can make them as simple or exotic as you like. The essential ingredients are a banana, some vanilla ice cream and some sauce, but you could add whipped...
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Chicken Fritters
Tonight I needed to cook dinner, I really couldn’t be bothered and I had next to nothing in the cupboard. But I did have half a cooked chicken and some dry goods. I thunk and thunk and wondered what...
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A delicious Sausage Stew
This is a recipe for a delicious, nutritious, easy and cheap sausage stew which is just the job for warming you up on a chilly day. This recipe serves 6 easily and uses storecupboard ingredients. If,...
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Joy of Soup
Red Winter Soup One of the lovely things about the darker nights and colder weather is that home-made soup is on the menu more often. Tonight we had Red Winter Soup which packed full of Vitamin C to...
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The Fastest Cheesecake in the West
Yes, there is such thing as an emergency cheesecake, sometimes cheesecake is the only thing that will do. Such it was on Saturday night – we wanted cheesecake and we wanted it fast. You can use...
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Vampires – a Practical Guide
Vampire by Edward Burne Jones Imagine you are a vampire hunter on the trail of a beautiful young girl who has just been taken by the evil yet strangely alluring Count Dracula and you have ventured into...
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