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Category: Eatables

31st January 202131st January 2021

School Dinner Cake

Do you remember being in the queue in the dining room at lunchtime when you were at primary school? What was the food you looked forward to the most? Or did you loathe school dinners? I loved them! But then again I’m not that picky, and will eat almost anything. I always had a sweet…

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17th January 2021

Shortbread Biscuits

The recipe for shortbread goes back around 800 years to Scotland (The Scots are marvels for invention) and was called ‘Biscuit bread’.  It was made from left over bread dough that was put into the oven to harden. Butter was added centuries later, which made a more ‘short’ dough, hence a crumbly texture. They are…

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3rd January 20213rd January 2021

Lasagne

This lasagne is made with beef mince, use Quorn mince for a vegetarian version. Ingredients: 500g Beef or Quorn mince 400g tin of tomatoes 1 stick of celery 1 onion 1 beef or vegetable stock cube 1 tbls tomato puree 2 cloves of garlic Salt and pepper pinch of basil Grated cheddar cheese Dry lasagne…

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21st July 20207th January 2021

Pip’s Beef Cannelloni

My children have never been particularly forthcoming with praise in regard to anything that requires cooking on a hob or in the oven. This Cannelloni, (I never knew how hard it was to spell this pesky word, 3 n’s and 2 l’s) brings out utterances of pure pleasure from them. Which is saying something, because…

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12th July 202029th March 2021

Madeira Cake

After we’d chowed down this Madeira Cake, I had an urge to reaffirm in my middle-aged brain that in fact all of my reasonings on the origin of Madeira Cake were true. That it did originate in Madeira, and I was always correct in my answers to pub quizzes, (oh, the pub! it’s been 18…

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7th July 202024th March 2021

Annarita’s Spaghetti Bolognese

I have a friend, an Italian friend. In fact, she’s as authentically Italian as you can get. She came from a town in Italy on the heel of the boot. Have a  look on a map for the location of a place called ‘Brindisi’, that’s where she was born. In fact, it looks so beautiful…

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