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I've always enjoyed the results of home made bread, and if you've followed this blog since the beginning (har har hardee har har) you will have read my Baking Bread post where I tell you all about how I learned to knead bread from a woman who was built like a mound of bread dough. ... Continue Reading →
This is a yummy treat I created with overripe bananas and a creamy hot chocolate powder I found in my mother's cupboard. The hot chocolate powder is one of those mixes that you just add water to. I haven't read the ingredients, and probably won't. I'm sure it has lots of things I wouldn't usually... Continue Reading →
Soak overnight and cook 3/4 cup cannellini beans. After cooking, add a clove of minced garlic and let the beans stand for a day in the fridge in the remaining water (you want water to barely cover the beans, about the same amount of juice as would be in a can of cooked beans). To... Continue Reading →
This started out as sautéed mushrooms and ended up as a tasty, healthy-creamy pasta. Definitely a dish requiring an experienced, confident cook as I didn't measure anything, rather just added and stirred lots. I didn't even taste this much - as I pretty well knew what was happening. It turned out a nice variation to... Continue Reading →
This time of year, cabbage is a staple British vegetable and I get a head of cabbage in every veggie box. Sometimes it's purple, sometimes it's green. Last week's was a green variety with a thinner, white veined leaf, with curly edges tinged with purple. Looking for a different way of eating it, I decided... Continue Reading →
Turn up the volume or put some headphones on to get full benefit. The cake was much easier to mix than the sound! For the cake recipe go here: Gooey-Carrot-Apple Ginger Cake Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting 200 grams low fat, soft cream cheese 500 grams icing sugar about 1 Tablespoon grated ginger Beat all together... Continue Reading →
Still working through my left over apples from OOTO BioDiversiTree today I experimented with a healthy, sweet bread. I didn't have much flour in the cupboard so had to mix whole wheat and gram. With the added quinoa and oats, nuts and seeds, you have a high protein, sweet bread. Good comfort food. This is... Continue Reading →
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