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Beef in Beer with wholegrain mustard croutons.
Hello Dear Reader,If I were Worzel Gummage then I would say I've got my cooking head on. Some days, I just can't be bothered and then I go through weeks when I'm Mrs Patmore. Well this is definitely a...
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Back to basics
Hello Dear Reader,I'm taking part in Sainsbury's basics challenge. It is not my normal supermarket but I will give anything a go in the name of market research. I was sent £20 and the invitation to go...
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Dirty food night in
Hello Dear Reader,I headed to my Zombie Apocalypse cupboard for some inspiration tonight. I dragged out some of the Indian spice (real aficionados of spicy food look away as this has a tinge of...
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How to make gluten free pasta and the rest of my day.
Hello Dear Reader,What a day! Housework, library, salon for a tidy up, and a bake off. I've made pastry for the freezer so I can just pull it out when I need it. I've also made pasta, some we had for...
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Fat free tea loaf, chocolate muffins and another quilt
Hello Dear Reader,Today has been a busy and sociable day and though lovely, it was good to get home. I didn't bake today, I baked on Thursday night and took the goodies into work to share. Nothing...
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Start the week well.
Hello Dear Reader,Thanks so much for all the comments, tweets, re tweets and emails, it's always great to hear from you. I love a new week and always feel the most energised on a Monday. This is the...
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Meat and Potato Pie
Hello Dear Reader,For many years, I had no success whatsoever with normal pastry. I then saw the Hairy Bikers make pastry in a food processor and followed suit. From hence forth, I've never used my...
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Spinach and 'ricotta' ravioli with tomato sauce
Hello Dear Reader,Now I can make pasta, I'm on a roll............there's no stopping me. If you made your pasta from basics flour, this would actually be extremely cheap. I made my pasta from gluten...
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Cheats meatballs
Hello Dear Reader,I went to and from work by train today. The low lying farmland either side of the train was water logged; the water courses and rivers had burst their banks and the brown murky water...
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Vegetable Chilli - 70p per portion
Hello Dear Reader,I was recently sent a voucher by Sainsbury's and asked to try their value range. Here's another recipe where I have used their products.My recipe for vegetable chilli changes...
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All prepared for the month ahead?
Hello Dear Reader,I have some well planned for and structured expenses over the coming year and each month we need to be careful stewards of our resources to not just live beneath our means, but well...
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Eating down the stores
Hello Dear Reader,Whilst you can see from the stock take and menu plan that we will be stuffing our faces, we will be on a fiscal fast. We've home improvements to pay for and a couple of weeks without...
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Disappearing nine patch with a twist.
Hello Dear Reader,I'm in the middle of making a 'crumb quilt' from all the tiny bits of off cuts I have left. I've now used up all the tiny bits and now I'm using some of the 5" squares I have. I...
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Win a million!
Hello Dear Reader,We're really struggling in Cornwall with really rough weather and the noise of the wind is deafening. We've come home, eaten soup and are off to bed with books to try and ignore the...
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Fidget Casserole
Hello Dear Reader,Fidget pie is a traditional pie from Shropshire that has gammon, apples and potatoes. I saw the Hairy Bikers make one and yearned! However, me and pastry don't go well...
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Stretched Sausage Casserole with 'sides' for £1.11 per serving
Hello Dear Reader,Another version of sausage casserole. If you gave someone two sausages for their supper they might think you were being a bit stingy but it you skin them and roll them into balls;...
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Keeping warm.
photo by Kayleigh Tallulah Wilson Hello Dear Reader,Another storm. My heart goes out to the coastal communities who are literally having their homes battered by one storm after the next. The photo...
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Saturday night fakeaway............I give you the mighty meaty!
Hello Dear Reader,The mighty meaty!! Something you'd never find in Italy...........or anywhere come to think of it. A mighty meat is a meat sweat inducing pizza smothered with ham, chicken, ground beef...
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Starry, starry quilt
Hello Dear Reader,I've got serious cabin fever! This is the time of year for hiking boots, fleece everything including knickers and getting out on the beaches, cliff paths and moors. None of them are...
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Cornwall is open for business!
Hello Dear Reader,I know loads of you lovely folk read this.Pageviews yesterday10,438Pageviews last month279,180Pageviews all time history6,581,822So far! 6.5 million page views! Over 35,000 unique...
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