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Donut Sugar Cookies

Okay, they’re supposed to look like donut-shaped sugar cookies, but looking back I think you’d more accurately call them homemade party rings.  Anyway, whatever you want to call them they’re far easier to whip up than you’d think, and definitely look cute on a plate with a cup of tea 🙂

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Mint Chocolate Chip Brownies

I’m an expert on eating brownies, not making them.  I bake a lot, but the humble brownie is something I’d never bothered to try – until recently.  Now I can’t stop making them (luckily I’ve got plenty of test subjects who are more than willing to scoff my experimental batches!). Mint-Chocolate Chip Brownies 160g butter/margarine 100g […]

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Spicy Crayfish Linguine with Spinach and Ricotta

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 […]