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Madeleines

Depending on who you are Madeleines will either make you think of Proust… or The Transporter.  Personally they make me think of holidays in France when I was a kid and my mum buying bags of them to keep my brother and I quiet on the long car journey from ferry to campsite.  I only […]

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Hot Dogs with Sweet Potato Fries

A couple of Sundays ago I dropped in on a Man vs Food marathon and suddenly had the most overwhelming craving for Hot Dogs that I’ve ever had in my life at 9pm at night.  Not ideal.  God, even as I type this I can feel it coming back…  I’m not one of those people […]

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Food

Seven Breakfasts

You’ll never catch me skipping out on breakfast.  EVER.  Nor am I one of those breakfast bar/biscuit people (are you crazy?!).  See, my stomach seems to be inhabited by a noisy monster with a beast-like appetite and he’d never let me get away with not feeding him first thing in the morning… and he doesn’t […]

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Cinnamon, Raisin & Walnut Loaf

I love a good fruit loaf, and I love cinnamon even more (you know the cinnamon jelly bellies everyone avoids – I love ’em, pass ’em my way!) – and this little loaf, bread, cake thing (getting technical now…) smells amazing while it’s cooking. Cinnamon, Raisin & Walnut Loaf 125ml milk 50g butter for the […]

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Cardiff Food

Hang Fire Southern Kitchen

So, it turns out relocating from London to Cardiff is tough. Last Saturday we finally began the monstrous task of moving all our boxes of crap stuff (all 62 of them…) from the storage locker – where they’ve sat untouched for the past four months – to our new house. We carted four trolley-loads down from […]