Tag: Nigella Lawson
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Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Macarons: #100bakeschallengeposter No 77.
EDIT: this was meant to be posted on 14th February! So wind yourself back four weeks! I get more chance to bake and test out new recipes as well as trying out more complicated ones when I have more spare time. It was half term week and I had time to try out some recipes.…
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National Peanut Butter Day: No bake peanut butter and chocolate squares
Today is National Peanut Butter Day! As I was getting all the ingredients out to make something peanut butter related to share with you, Mr S said I was making it up! I told him to go and look on the MyLegoman Mostly Foodie Days Of… Calendar and it was there for January 24th. So…
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Suet-Free Mincemeat- How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
Until about five years ago I could never be bothered to make my own mincemeat. Why go to all that trouble when you can buy it readymade in jars? It was when my late mother in law told me that making your own mincemeat was so easy, that I thought I might as well give…
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Pineapple Upside Down Bundt.
Who remembers having Pineapple Upside Down Cake as a child? Did you have it for school dinners? I did, although when I was little I didn’t like the pineapple and left it. I remember a very strict teacher at our Infant School telling me off for not eating it and making me sit there at…
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Pecan and Maple Bundt Cake- Nigella’s Kitchen.
Once again I’ve lost my way a bit with my blogging. I have all these posts in draft on my laptop but that’s as far as they’ve gone during the last month. A lot has happened in the past month. I’ve been on a trip to visit my brother, sister in law and their gorgeous…
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Cheesy Feet
Those of you who read my blog regularly will know that I’m a primary school teacher. I do supply now as it fits in much better around my family and home life but I’ve always loved teaching and working with young children. Although the teaching profession isn’t what it used to be, I feel I…
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Cooking The Books February 2014- Flora’s Famous Courgette Cake from How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
Last Sunday I needed a pudding for our lunch and thought about baking something from the Cake chapter of How To Be A Domestic Goddess. My favourite bake so far from that chapter has been the Boston Cream Pie but my eye has also been on the Courgette Cake in the same chapter. The picture of…
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Cooking The Books February 2014- Cheese, Onion and Potato Pies from How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
At the time of writing it is nearly the end of February and I’m still trying to bake something from each chapter of How To Be A Domestic Goddess as part of my monthly Cooking The Books challenge. Last Saturday I had to try and bake something from the Pastry chapter. Pastry is something I either…
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Cooking The Books February 2014- Snickers & Peanut Butter Muffins from How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
As you’ve probably gathered from previous posts I’m doing a Cooking The Books Challenge. In February I’m baking a recipe from each chapter of Nigella Lawson’s How To Be A Domestic Goddess. So yesterday on the Friday of half term week it was time for me to bake something from the Children chapter in the…
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Cooking The Books February 2014- Chocolate Macaroons from How To Be A Domestic Goddess.
A week last Friday, when it was Valentine’s Day marked the end of a very busy week for us. We had just got over a nasty flu virus and were still not feeling one hundred per cent. The last thing on my mind was Valentine’s Day. To be honest I don’t really care much for…
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