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It lives!
Many apologies for the radio silence - we’ve been moving house, which meant eating everything in the freezer and the cupboards, finding homes for all our culinary stuff in the new (and frankly inadequate) kitchen, sourcing new fridge and freezer (the USAnian behemoth having been left behind), and then starting to fill them. So no new recipes to ( Read more... ) -
orange and lemon cake
Having made the Christmas cake yesterday, I was all set to make some mincemeat.
I started by blitzing an orange and a lemon in the food processor, and then pulled opened the baking cupboard to get at all the other ingredients (they’re all kept in a pull out cupboard). And there, on the top shelf, was a huge jar of mincemeat from last year. And we ( Read more... ) -
a day of kitchen mishaps
I made the Christmas cake yesterday morning, after boiling the fruit up with sugar and butter and brandy on Saturday. It, thankfully, seems fine. However …
A chicken went in the oven to roast on a bed of vegetables. Roast potatoes went on top in another dish, as did a coconut and citrus cake (see later post).
Spuds were doing beautifully, but the ( Read more... ) -
Ford Mondeo Estate TDCi Ghia X automatic 2002
For sale is our Mondeo estate - great workhorse, but we really don’t need anything that size.
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