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Bread is the Staff of Life
Skip to bottum for recipe Bread in some shape or form has sustained life in almost every human society, past and present, since man first...
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Apr 182 min read


Something Sweet for Valentines
Make your own chocolate sweets this Valentines Skipe to recipe If you visit any corner shop, roadside service station or chain store on...
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Feb 104 min read


You Are What You Eat
Chicken Stew Chicken Stew Skip to recipe "Let food be thy medicine,...
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Jan 263 min read


Something For The Festive Season
Seed/Nut Clusters Caught Between Two Christmas days Skip to recipe My...
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Dec 30, 20243 min read


Irish Stew
Everyone I asked had a different recipe for Irish stew from their neighbour. I was faced with disputes from the mutton, lamb, beef and...
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Nov 30, 20244 min read


Half Half Banana & Carrot Cake
Scroll down for recipes When I was a boy of five or six years old my father would bring a huge bunch of bananas home with him on Monday...
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Oct 27, 20245 min read


Applumble
This is the season for preparing pies, jams and chutneys. Trees heavily laden with their fruit sigh in the autumnal winds as the evenings...
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Sep 4, 20242 min read


Salad Days
As we draw close to the peak of summer I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at three completely different salads from around...
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Aug 4, 20243 min read


Something Savory For The Weekend
My first encounter with a savoury snack was in a bag of Crips and I literally mean in the crisp packet. This savoury addition came in the...
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Jun 24, 20243 min read


Is it Scone or Scon? And does it even matter?
Q, What is the difference between a door and a dour? A, It’s the same difference as a floor and a floore So is it Scone or scon? And does...
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May 19, 20243 min read


When is a biscuit not a biscuit? When it’s a cake!
To prove this point, McVitie’s went head to head with HMRC in a fierce court battle The first biscuits introduced into Britain were a...
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Apr 14, 20244 min read


The Soda Farl
This blog is for people who can’t cook, won’t cook, don’t cook. It’s for people like me who need a helping hand when it comes to getting...
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Mar 18, 20244 min read


A kind of food blog
This blog is for anyone who has never fried a sausage, baked a cake or boiled an egg. The internet is awash with food blogs; You Tube...
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Feb 15, 20248 min read
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