Posts tagged 'Recipes' - page 7
03 March 2010
Recipe For Yorkshire Salad
We have been discussing the ins and outs of Yorkshire Salad, and some of the different variations, including a very similar recipe called Granny Salad which Sandra (one of our amazing spice packers) was handed down from her Granny in Devon. Sadie -...
Read more25 February 2010
Recipe for Vanilla Fudge and Coconut Ice
I know this is really quite pathetic but I have only just cracked how to make fudge in the last year. It always seemed to burn every time I tried to make it - the problem is that most recipes don't give the mixture long enough for the sugar to be tr...
Read more15 February 2010
Recipe - Pancakes Stuffed With Mixed Mushrooms In A Cheese Sauce
Following on from making pancakes per Sunday's post, we used the 8 pancakes, or crêpes, that this made by stuffing them with a mushroom filling, covering them in a cheese sauce and baking them in the oven. This is how we made it.
Read more14 February 2010
Classic Pancake Recipe
Shrove Tuesday is the traditional start of Lent. It has become associated with pancakes in Britain and so everyone spends the day making pancakes. We regularly make pancakes for breakfast which the kids then top with cinnamon sugar or lemon and sug...
Read more09 February 2010
Recipe For French Macarons
I came across this recipe on the truly amazing food blog of the Californian pastry chef living in Paris - David Lebovitz - which can be found at http://www.davidlebovitz.com/. And I have been meaning to have a crack at making his chocolate macarons...
Read more04 February 2010
Recipe for Traditional Pudding: Queen of Puddings
I was listening to Radio 4 the other day and they were talking about steam puddings and how it is a truly English traditional that is not found anywhere else. One of the puds they were talking about was Queen of Puddings which was being made at Riv...
Read more26 January 2010
Recipe - How To Make New Mexico Red Chile Sauce
Here is a way to use some of the new chillis that I introduced in a blog last week. It is a traditional recipe for a New Mexican Red Chile Sauce (Chilli Sauce) that is preferred by northern New Mexicans and New Mexican old-timers, especially those w...
Read more24 January 2010
Recipe - Baking Chocolate Brownies For Haiti
Our children's school council have decided to run a cake stall tomorrow to raise money for Haiti. I feel especially moved by Haiti as my grandmother was born next door in the Dominican Republic, which has escaped the horrors of their neighbours. Th...
Read more14 January 2010
Recipe for Chicken Nuggets and Chips
The roads yesterday were like an ice rink - there was a thin layer of black ice outside our house that made the road treacherous. No gritting of minor roads or housing areas seems to be being done. We're not that good in England at cold weather - o...
Read more08 January 2010
Recipes - Oranges And Lemons For Really Great Homemade Biscuits
While snowed in in the cold countryside of Northumberland, we enjoyed some warming chai as well as delicious mulled wine using our organic Fairtrade mulling wine spices. I also concocted a couple of citrus based biscuits, with one of them coming fro...
Read more01 January 2010
Recipe For Luxuriant Chocolate Chai Latte
The snow is still here and it's a white and cold Christmas and New Year period. We've travelled to Northumberland, my home county, where we have observed the traditional first footing in a harshly, cold and rural climate - I love it.
Read more06 December 2009
Recipe For Sweets At Christmas Fairs
Inspired by marzipanning the Christmas cake yesterday and acutely aware of the looming Christmas Fair after the Carol Concert at our children's school, I decided to experiment with some sweet making this morning. Also, chidhood memories of Niederegg...
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