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The day my children made dinner
The first ever time our children made us dinner. What a proud moment in any parents’ life. A moment you wait for for what seams like an eternity, and then the day comes. You do some shopping, get a few ingredients and leave them to it. I was quite surprised by the flavour combinations they…
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Pauly’s guest spot (until I come up with a wittier name) – cooking meat
Pauly sent me another page full of words for this blog today. That’s number three. I thought I owed it to him to make it an official segment and give it a name (or something that resembles a name for now) Pauly, the soap box is yours… Cooking meat… It happened again today…I received…
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raspberry cheesecake to impress you friends… or the lady friend that the chocolate pud didn’t work on
Raspberry cheesecake to impress your friends. Everyone likes cheese cake, right? Remember the one that your mum or nana would make cheesecake when you were younger? Biscuity base, cheesey middle and raspberry or passionfruit jelly on top. Free childhood memories for all right there… So recently I was helping a young padiwan…
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Sammy has burghul
Sammy has burghul. No, she doesn’t need a topical cream for that. Nor does she put it into a crack pipe and smoke it. Sammy has burghul in her cupboard this week and wants to know what to cook with it… Random side note. *Everyone should take a leaf from this book. Sammy always seems…
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food for your kids’ birfdy party
Here’s a few things that are nice and to make and pretty indestructable when it comes to serving. Make it all a day or two before the big event so you avoid the stress associated with last minute prep. Also, if yo do happen to eff something up, you still have heaps of time to…
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autumn is here
Autumn is here. What does that mean? Well one thing is for sure. If you havn’t started already, it’s probably time to make a few jams and chutneys and preserves with the last of your summer fruit. Stonefruit are always a personal favourite for all of the above and the a virtually spilling from the…
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what will the day bring?
Aah yes, what will the day bring? I’m just putting it out there…. It’s just a question… any idea’s?
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my midnight picnic
My wife has a set of cards entitled “fifty things to do before you die”, or something similar. Or, as I just found out, “fifty things to do once in a lifetime”, to be absolutely correct. Once or twice we have sat around the table with friends after having a wine or two, and magically…
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sammy’s dinner – guest chef challenge #1
Sammy has once again provided me with a list of ingredients, for which she will trade from me a swifty written recipe for her dinner. Realising that I would be a bit time-poor, as chefs often are (that’s right. I am a chef), or maybe I just realised I can now palm this blog off…
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guest entry #1
This is the first in what may be a long line of guest bloggers… or maybe just it will just smoulder away like the burning love you used to have for your life… ooh. That was a little rough. Sorry. So this is from my head chef forever, Pauly. Or as I still call him,…