This is one of those really simple pasta recipes that looks like you’ve made a big effort, when actually you’ve just boiled some water and thrown a hodge-podge of ingredients into a pan. All you need is some linguine, crayfish tails (I bought these pre-cooked ones from Lidl which worked a treat, though I’m sure […]
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Lobster Sugar Cookies
“Lobster” and “Cookies” are words that don’t usually share the same sentence, I know. But when I found a lobster-shaped cookie cutter on sale, I decided it needed to come home with me and join all the other weirdly-shaped cookie cutters gathering dust in one of my kitchen cupboards. I have no idea how often I’ll […]
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Monkey Bread
You know how it goes; you buy this great big bunch of green bananas, plonk them in your fruit bowl and vow to eat them in a couple of days once they’ve ripened a bit. Trouble is, close your eyes for too long and they’ve gone all speckled and squidgy. Yuck! This happens to me […]
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Pineapple, Chicken and Chorizo Skewers
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in possession of scorching weather must be in want of a BBQ, so said Jane Austen… more or less. And that’s exactly what we did last Sunday. We had our first BBQ of the summer, and our first in our new house and very first garden 🙂 Alright, we […]
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The Sourdough Experiment
Sourdough pizza can claim to be the new hipster artisan food thing, but apparently it’s the way Neapolitan have been “doing dough” for yonks, and sourdough itself is a lot older than that. It’s the traditional way of creating wild yeast with just flour and water used by bakers way before little packets of yeast […]
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