Saturdays mean cooked breakfasts on the croft. Today was no different, well, except that I made baked eggs, an egg dish I’ve not come across in the UK and the Other Half has not eaten before. (Don’t ask why I haven’t made it for her before, I just haven’t.) It’s far more elegant and sophisticated [...]
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Chocolate nut cheesecake
12 September, 2011
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One of the Other Half’s work colleagues has her birthday this week. As the OH’s colleague is a fan of my cakes and puddings, which the OH takes in for special occasions, I made her a one-off: a luxurious, Italian-flavoured twist on a European-style cheesecake. It starts from the same point as my Italian flavours [...]
Read more Blog marks 17 years
5 September, 2011
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This blog marked its 17th anniversary at the beginning of August. It’s been through a number of iterations and changed hosts several times, but it’s still musing along after all this time. I’d actually forgotten the occasion, yes, typical of a man, until I read the Wednesday Chef’s post marking her blog’s sixth birthday. And [...]
Read more Big Lad’s Aussie burgers
2 September, 2011
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I was busy making sausages this afternoon so I roped in the Big Lad to start preparing dinner. We have a surfeit of meat at the moment as I’ve been overly careful in rationing it for the past few months, plus we’ve just added another half pig to the freezer. So what better treat for [...]
Read moreDrooling over banana cake
29 August, 2011
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I’m sitting at my desk, sipping black coffee, making phone calls to find buyers for our pigs and pork, and drooling as I do. I realise that almost certainly sounds like a strange thing to be doing, even allowing for the fact that I am both somewhat toothless and ageing. There is a more prosaic [...]
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