Posts tagged 'Recipes' - page 8
26 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...
Read more15 November 2009
Recipe - Quince & Ginger Steam Pudding
A good friend of ours - Jane - gave us 8 large quinces the other day and I have been racking my brains as to the best way to use them. They have a gorgeous light green-yellow colour and an almost eye-like shape, but finding recipe ideas for them is...
Read more06 November 2009
Bonfire Night and Delicious Parkin Recipe
Another symbol of the passing year. Another memory of cold, dark evenings. Another thread perhaps back to simpler times, perhaps even to pagan times. Bonfire Night has a special place in our annual celebrations, even though I know it’s not very PC...
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