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  • Christmas,  Lunches,  Meat,  Recipes

    Ham Soup With Dumplings

    23/12/2018 /

    This ham soup with dumplings is a great one-pot meal. You could even freeze the cooking water from the ham on Christmas Day and reheat it to make the soup at a later date. NB: Soup mix is a dried mixture of pulses that you can buy in your supermarket. There are 2 types. One requires presoaking, I only buy the ready to use version! You’ll typically find a mixture of barley, wheat, lentils and small beans in the mixture.  Very handy for bulking up a soup or stew and adding fibre to your diet.

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    Christmas Fruit Parcels

    06/12/2018 /

    These Christmas Fruit Parcels are a lighter alternative to cakes and puddings and have no suet and very little fat, no eggs and can be prepared quickly. They can easily be adapted for vegans too.

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  • Christmas,  Recipes,  Sides

    Dishwasher Vodka

    04/12/2018 /

    Normally when infusing alcohol with spices or fruit you have to wait a number of months for the best flavour. This is a cheat’s version, called dishwasher vodka, which if made today will be ready for drinking or gifting tomorrow!

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  • Fruit,  Recipes,  Sweet

    Sweet Mac And Cheese

    17/06/2015 /

    As a child I always believed that macaroni was a sweet pasta dish. I didn’t realise that the name of a past corresponds to a shape. My childhood macaroni was normally made with penne. Dad used to cook it in a double-boiler, it’s a type of bain marie. The pasta was slowly cooked in a custard sauce and it was rib-stickingly good. This kind of dish was never cooked in the Summer months, but I have great memories of many milk puddings when growing up. Rice, semolina (with a sinful spoon of jam in the middle), tapioca, and this mysterious macaroni. Now I know that macaroni is a type of…

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    02/04/2013

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  • Lunches,  Recipes,  Vegetarian

    St Patrick’s Day Pie

    04/03/2015 /

    St Patrick’s Day Pie is made at a time of the year when the core ingredients are still fresh, seasonal, and local. I accept it’s also a cheesy/corny name for a pie, but with the green, white, and gold colours what else could I call it? Apparently it’s “Pie Week” in the UK. There’s a week for pies now? I just had to redeem myself after the whole Leftovers Pie affair a few weeks ago. You could eat this pie still warm from the oven, or you could wait for it to go completely cold, wrap it in a snug covering of greaseproof paper, then put it in the fridge…

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  • Food,  Lunches,  Recipes,  Reviews,  Vegetarian

    Savoury Crumble With Mustard

    17/12/2013 /

    I was recently contacted by Maille, who asked me to review a gift box of their premium mustards. What better way to review a product than to try it in a recipe and see how it stands up to my Savoury Crumble with Mustard?

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  • Baking,  Recipes,  Sweet

    Cinnamon Rolls

    14/12/2013 /

    A few weeks ago my friend Deb posted a picture of some screen-lickable cinnamon rolls she’d baked.  Seeing as she’s in Tipperary and I’m just outside of Dublin it’s not as if we can arrange a delivery so I decided to give them a go and bake them myself.

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  • Christmas,  Lunches,  Meat,  Recipes

    Turkey Carrot Rice Crackers

    12/12/2013 /

    This day fortnight (insert shriek of panic here) you will probably get to the point where you don’t want to see another piece of turkey or ham for a month. Yet sitting in front of you is half an uneaten turkey and likewise a ham. Christmas can be a time of excess and you’ll always spot it at the Christmas dinner table.

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  • Cake,  Fruit,  Recipes,  Sweet

    Toffee Apple Cake

    04/12/2013 /

    I’ve been testing this recipe for a while, in fact since Hallowe’en. I know it’s a long time to be playing around with a bake as important as Toffee Apple Cake but it was important that I got it right. My taste-tester-in-chief has declared it the best apple cake he’s ever tasted. He always says that, I think because he’s afraid if he doesn’t flatter me then his steady supply of cake will dry up. No matter, I have plenty of willing volunteers to take his place!

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  • Christmas,  Frugal Living,  Musing,  Parenting

    Last Minute Christmas List

    24/12/2012 /

    Well I never did get to do all the 12 days of Christmas blogposts.

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  • Christmas,  Fruit,  Recipes,  Sweet

    Low Sugar Orange and Grapefruit Marmalade

    21/12/2012 /

    It is, I think, the 10th of my 12 Days of Christmas blogposts.  Today I made a batch of our low sugar orange and grapefruit marmalade.  It is still sweet but uses far less processed sugars and so theoretically is good for you.

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    Red Cabbage Pickle

    18/12/2012 /

    It’s the 7th day of my 12 Days of Christmas blog series. Today it’s a little something different that you can gift, or keep for yourself for the table. A seasonal red cabbage pickle.

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