All our posts - page 31
02 November 2009
First Attempt At A Coffee Cake Recipe
We all like coffee cake, and Sadie in the office has been demanding one for ages (and without walnuts on the top), so we’ve decided to try various recipes to see if we can come up with our favourite recipe. After all the effort of making it, she sai...
Read more01 November 2009
Recipe For Pumpkin Pie
What to do with all that lovely pumpkin that you've got after scooping out your pumpkin, or just because they are such good value discounted in those shops that have overstocked. This year we've made a classic pumpkin pie - which was deliciously ind...
Read more31 October 2009
For Halloween let's enjoy Calan Gaeaf
It’s Fright Night which seems to be the name that Halloween is now being marketed under. This is not its first branding makeover as All Saint’s Day was shifted from 13 May to 1 November, and so All Hallows’ Even to 31 October, to hijack and repress...
Read more29 October 2009
Recipe For Homemade mincemeat - Countdown To Christmas
Mincemeat is delicious and really easy to make. The aroma and flavour of homemade mincemeat is fantastic, making the shop-bought commercial stuff pale into insignificance – a travesty of taste, lacking in depth, rich or any booziness.
Read more27 October 2009
New Fairtrade Organic Mulling Wine Sachets from Steenbergs
It might have caused me sleepless nights and given me an undue amount of heartache and stress, but Steenbergs new range of Mulling Wine Spices in sachets has finally arrived. It's about 1½ months behind schedule and we have been having to disappoint...
Read more22 October 2009
Recipe For Kulfi - The Perfect Indian Pudding
Of course, you need a pudding/sweet to round off the indulgence of a delicious, groaning table of delicately spiced Indian food. Kulfi (Indian ice cream) has been made for ages and was served to the Moghul Emperors at their hedonistic courts in Delh...
Read more19 October 2009
Response from Kabul about Schools, Hospitals and Mosques
Relating to my blog dated 6 October 2009 (see below for links), I have had this response from Mike Hollis, who is Programme and Strategy Co-ordinator, Department for International Development in the British Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Read more11 October 2009
Recipe for Roast Pork With Apple Sauce
It's that harvesting time of the year, with the trees turning a golden brown and the fruit fulsome on the trees. I picked an armful of windfalls from our garden and took them inside to make apple sauce to have a with a delicious joint of pork that w...
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