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SLOW ROASTED TOMATOES
A couple of years ago my best friend Carmen and I were strolling around Borough Market in London and came across a stall selling the most wonderful tubs of deli treasures…baba ganoush, caponata, roasted aubergines etc. I bought most of … Continue reading
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Tagged BBQ, dip, food, picnic, recipe, salad, slow roasted tomatoes, tomatoes, vegetarian
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CHOCOLATE BEETROOT CAKE
The weather in the UK was glorious at the weekend, quite an unusual occurrence for a bank holiday weekend. Blue skies and bright sun meant that the parks and pub gardens were crammed full of people drinking in as much … Continue reading
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Tagged beetroot, cake, Chocolate, chocolate beetroot cake, food, Nigel Slater, recipe, sweet
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TOASTED MUESLI
I really notice a huge difference in my eating habits over the course of a day, based on what I have for breakfast. Sometimes I skip it, then I end up snacking on crisps by 10am. Or if I eat … Continue reading
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Tagged almonds, antioxidants, breakfast, food, healthy, healthy breakfast, high protein, low fat, low GI, muesli, recipe, rolled oats, toasted muesli
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FRESH RAVIOLI – CHORIZO & GOATS CHEESE / MUSHROOM & THYME
Earlier this week, my lovely friend and colleague Sal mentioned she was looking to get a pasta maker. I jumped up in a slightly over-excited manner and said I had been wanting to get a pasta maker for ages and … Continue reading
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Tagged chorizo, chorizo and goats cheese ravioli, food, fresh pasta, Italian, making ravioli, mushroom, mushroom and thyme ravioli, pasta, pasta dough, pine nuts, ravioli, recipe, rolling pasta
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RASPBERRY CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE
As its the Easter weekend, and I’m back home visiting my family in Scotland, I wanted to make something special to eat on Easter Sunday, something to round off our Sunday roast. All of last week I was trying to … Continue reading
LEMON CURD
It’s absolutely freezing outside. And when the weather is like this, I need to cheer myself up a bit. Keen for an injection of sunshine, I decided to make some lemon curd. I adore lemon curd, having always had it … Continue reading
RASPBERRY ROCKY ROAD
This recipe for raspberry rocky road is one of my favourites. It also seems to be a favourite of most of my friends and family, most notably my sister in law, Sami. When she was pregnant with my nephew last … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, dessert, food, raspberry rocky road, recipe, rocky road, sweet
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RIDICULOUSLY MOREISH COCONUT COOKIES
A few weeks ago we had a truly lovely girl called Irene come to our office for work experience. We all loved her immediately and then she made us love her more by baking for us. She made us these … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Chocolate, coconut cookies, cookies, food, recipe, sweet
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ITS PANCAKE DAY!
Its Shrove Tuesday aka Pancake Day! One of my favourite days of the year. Yes, I know I can have pancakes at any time throughout the year but there is something special about having a day dedicated to pancakes. They … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese and ham pancake, crepes, food, lemon and sugar pancake, pancake, Pancake Day, recipe, savoury, Shrove Tuesday, sweet
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RASPBERRY BAKEWELL TART
It’s cold outside, very cold. In fact its snowing around most of the UK at the moment. When the weather is like this, I just want to eat warm, comforting food. I saw someone making a Bakewell Tart on the … Continue reading
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Tagged almond tart, Bakewell pudding, Bakewell tart, cake, dessert, food, Hairy Bikers, Jam, pastry, pudding, Raspberry Bakewell tart, recipe, sweet
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BAKING & COOKING TIPS
As a lot of you will no doubt be cooking or baking over the festive season, I thought I would write a little list of tips. Yes, they seem ridiculously obvious, but as someone who cooks and bakes a lot, … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, baking powder, caramel, cooking, food, ingredients, measurements, recipe, tips
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SALTED CARAMEL YULE LOG
Last month I was flicking through Delicious Magazine, my favourite food magazine and this recipe for Salted Caramel Yule log, designed by Gemma Gannon, founder of Band Of Bakers, jumped out at me. I usually make Mary Berry’s classic chocolate roulade … Continue reading
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Tagged Band Of Bakers, chocolate roulade, Christmas, Delicious Magazine, dessert, food, ganache, recipe, salted caramel, Salted Caramel Yule log, sweet, yule log
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WINTER PIMMS No3
I love Christmas. Why? Because I get to eat and drink as much as I want, and I do it surrounded by all my favourite people. The festive season is now upon us and I’m sure many of you will … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas drink, drink, mulled wine, Pimms, recipe, Winter Pimms, Winter Wonderland
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MADELEINES
My friend Jordan has been on and on at me for weeks to make him madeleines. When he lived in Paris he used to buy madeleines every day. Seeing as he was clearly going to compare my madeleines to those … Continue reading
SPICED ALMOND CAKE
Its cold outside…really cold. And when it gets cold, I want to eat lovely comforting food to cheer myself up a bit. So the other day, after a rather freezing walk with the dog, I fancied making a cake. I … Continue reading
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Tagged almonds, cake, citrus syrup, Delicious Magazine, dessert, food, pudding, recipe, Spiced almond cake
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SALTED CARAMEL BROWNIES
As you may of may not know, it is still National Chocolate Week…what a wonderful name for a ‘week’. What could be better than a chocolate week? Anyway…this wondrous ‘week’ gave me a marvellous excuse to try out some chocolate recipes I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Brownies, caramel, Chocolate, food, Paul A Young, pudding, recipe, salted caramel brownies, sweet
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CHOCOLATE & PISTACHIO FUDGE
Continuing my theme on chocolate, since it’s National Chocolate Week, here is a recipe I found in Good Housekeeping’s Chocolate Collection for Chocolate & Pistachio fudge. A lot of recipes for this fudge will include butter but this one doesn’t, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, chocolate pistachio fudge, food, fudge, Good Housekeeping, recipe, sweet
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NIGELLA’S TOTALLY CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Today marks the first day of National Chocolate Week (8th – 14th October), and if a week devoted to celebrating chocolate isn’t a reason to celebrate, I don’t know what is! To this end, I thought I would make some of Nigella Lawson’s Totally … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, Chocolate chip cookie, food, National Chocolate Week, Nigella Lawson, recipe
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ROASTED BUTTERNUT SQUASH & SWEET POTATO SOUP
I always love moving into a new season as it brings with it a whole new array of seasonal foods. I especially love Autumnal vegetables so I was delighted to see butternut squash in the supermaket this morning. I decided … Continue reading
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Tagged butternut squash, carrot, food, recipe, roasted vegetable, Seasonal, soup, starter, sweet potato, vegetable, vegetarian
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BLACKBERRY & HAZELNUT FRIANDS
I was reading the Observer Food Monthly on the tube home the other day and was pouring over the recipes from Nigel Slater’s new book The Kitchen Diaries II when I saw this recipe for blackberry & hazelnut friands. They … Continue reading
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Tagged blackberry, cake, dessert, food, Friand, Hazelnut, Nigel Slater, Observer Food Monthly, pudding, recipe
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CHICKEN & THYME CASSEROLE
There’s a slight chill in the air at the moment and the nights are drawing in. When this starts happening I immediately start to crave homely, warming, comforting food. A few nights ago I felt like eating a casserole with … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, chicken and thyme casserole, comfort food, food, mashed potato, recipe, thyme
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QUICK & EASY APPLE PIE
My friend Louise has a beautiful apple tree in her garden and brought a load of its apples into work for me to bake with. These seasonal apples are perfect for pies and crumbles. I made a blackberry and apple … Continue reading
APPLE & BLACKBERRY CRUMBLE
As you can see from my previous post, apples and blackberries are currently in season, so this is the very best time to make apple and blackberry crumble! I made this at the weekend and it was divine. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, blackberry, comfort food, crumble, dessert, food, pudding, recipe, Seasonal
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BABA GANOUSH
Those of you who read my blog regularly will know that aubergines are probably my favourite food. If I ever see it on a menu, I will immediately stop looking at anything else and order that. Even when I go … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergine, baba ganoush, dip, eggplant, food, Lebanese, recipe, vegetarian
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PARMIGIANA DI MELANZANE
As you can probably tell, I love my food. And when anyone asks me what my favourite dish is, I find it almost impossible to decide…and then my mind drifts to this dish…Parmigiana di Melanzane. This is a classic Italian dish incorporating … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergine, eggplant, food, Italian, Parmigiana di Melanzane, recipe, vegetarian
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PLAIN SCONES
Yesterday was the men’s final at Wimbledon and Andy Murray, the first British man in 74 years to reach a Wimbledon final, was playing against Roger Federer. The whole nation, it seemed, was watching the match. Bums were perched on the edge … Continue reading
THE BEST SALTED CARAMEL ICE CREAM EVER!
I am not a big fan of ice cream, I never have been. Not sure why. I just never found it particularly enjoyable to eat. Maybe its because I have sensitive teeth and it hurts, maybe its because you get … Continue reading
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Tagged dessert, food, ice cream, pudding, recipe, salted caramel, sweet
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COMFORT PASTA…AUBERGINE PESTO WITH TRUFFLE CHEESE!
Saturday was one of those days where I’d planned to do a lot of ‘stuff’. You know…go for a run, go to a market, do odd jobs in my flat etc. Unfortunately I veered way off course on Friday night … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergine pesto, comfort food, food, pasta, recipe, vegetarian
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MILLIONAIRE SHORTBREAD
When I posted photos of my Jubilee party, I got a lot of people messaging me asking me how I made my millionaire shortbread so here is my very simple recipe… INGREDIENTS For the shortbread: 250g (8.8oz) plain flour 75g … Continue reading
UNION JACK JUBILEE CAKE
As you can see from my previous post ( http://aspoonfulofsugarblog.com/2012/07/01/diamond-jubilee-party/ ), I made a Union Jack cake for my Jubilee party at the weekend. I’ve had quite a lot of requests from people asking how I made it, so here … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, food, Jubilee, recipe, Union Jack Cake, Victoria sponge
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MINI CHEESECAKES
For the base 150g Digestive biscuits or Graham Crackers 75g butter, melted 1 tbsp caster sugar For the filling 375g cream cheese, at room temperature 112g caster sugar 2 medium eggs 150ml double/heavy cream 30ml lemon juice Splash of vanilla … Continue reading
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Tagged dessert, food, mini cheesecake, party food, pudding, recipe, sweet
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NIGELLA’S NUTELLA CAKE
When I asked my friend Jordan what kind of cake he’d like for his birthday, he replied…“Is it possible to make a Nutella cake? Does such a thing exist? I bloody hope so”. I knew there I was one place to … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cake, Chocolate, food, Nigella Lawson, Nutella, recipe
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ROASTED RED PEPPERS ON GARLIC TOAST
One of my favourite food magazines is Delicious Magazine -www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk. I have been subscribing to it for a long time now and every month when I see it waiting for me on my doorstep, I can’t wait to put the … Continue reading
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Tagged garlic toast, Jose Pizarro, recipe, roasted red peppers, tapas
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CHOCOLATE PROFITEROLES
I think its safe to say I have a lot of weaknesses when it comes to food in general but I think my biggest weakness has to be chocolate profiteroles. I adore them. The light airiness of the choux pastry, … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, chocolate profiteroles, choux pastry, dessert, food, pudding, recipe, sweet
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PERFECT PAVLOVA
Pavlova is also one of my favourite puddings. Unfortunately, I never feel sick from it so I can just eat and eat and eat! This is my fool proof recipe: Serves 12-14 (depending on how greedy you are!) INGREDIENTS For … Continue reading
MINI BANOFFEE PIES
While I was making my banoffee pie recently, I decided it might be nice to make some mini ones. So I did!
AMAZING BANOFFEE PIE
Banoffee Pie is my friend Denise’s favourite dessert and seeing as it was her birthday this weekend, I thought I’d make one and bring it into the office on Friday so we could start the celebrations early. This is a … Continue reading
HESTON’S LEMON TART
When I was trying to decide what dessert to make for my friends Louise and Tony last weekend, I couldn’t make up my mind between something rich and sweet or something clean and light. I started off my thinking I … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, dessert, food, Heston Blumenthal, lemon tart, pie, pudding, recipe, sweet
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HEAVENLY POTATO & SWEET POTATO DAUPHINOISE
I absolutely LOVE potato dauphinois. They’re really easy to make and they taste unbelievably good! This time, I decided to add sweet potatoes into the mix, just for a change and it was divine! Please give it a go. Ingredients … Continue reading
ROAST CHICKEN & CHORIZO
I had my friends Louise and Tony over for dinner on Saturday night and I wanted to make something easy to prepare, yet tasty. My mum tested out this Bill Granger recipe a couple of weeks ago and raved about … Continue reading
SKINNY CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
I recently bought The Skinny French Kitchen, a cookery book by Harry Eastwood. In it, she takes on the challenge of marrying her love of classic French cookery with a desire to maintain her waistline. Every recipe has been slimmed down … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate mousse, dessert, food, Harry Eastwood, pudding, recipe, Skinny French Chef, sweet
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HEALTHY COQ AU VIN BLANC
Recently, a few of my friends have pointed out that perhaps my diet is a little too rich, and it might be worth my while trying to reign it in a bit. I admit, I do love my rich foods. I love … Continue reading
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Tagged casserole, chicken, Coq au Vin, food, Harry Eastwood, healthy, recipe, Skinny French Chef
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DELICIOUS CARROT CAKE
It was my friend’s Mike’s birthday last week so I decided to make him a carrot cake seeing as its his favourite. If you like carrot cake, please try out this recipe as it really was delicious… INGREDIENTS For the … Continue reading
GOOEY CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
So I had a few things on at the weekend that spurred me on to make a batch of brownies. First, it was my lovely friend Jane’s birthday, secondly I was having friends round for dinner on Sunday night and … Continue reading
BEEF MASSAMAN CURRY
Last week my friend Sal mentioned that she was making a beef massaman curry. The more we talked about it, the more I thought about it. I thought about nothing else for the next 24 hours. The next day she … Continue reading
APPLE PIE
Last week when I was watching the Fabulous Baker Brothers on Channel 4 ( http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-fabulous-baker-brothers ), one of the brothers made an apple pie. It looked so delicious that I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I used to make apple … Continue reading
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Tagged apple pie, baking, dessert, Fabulous Baker Brothers, food, pudding, recipe, sweet
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QUICHE LORRAINE
I’m not a huge fan of pies. Well, when I say that, I mean I’m not a fan of heavy, stodgy pies, but I do love tarts. My friend Joe recently showed me his latest cookbook purchase – The Hairy … Continue reading
WILD MUSHROOM RISOTTO
Risotto is not a dish I’ve particularly warmed to in the past. I’ve always found it a bit stodgy and samey, but then I tried the saffron and bone marrow risotto at Ristorante Semplice in Mayfair…wow! It was stunning. But … Continue reading
SHORTBREAD
From December 2011 So its the day before New Year’s Eve, or Hogmanay as its called in Scotland. And no Hogmanay would be complete without shortbread. Shortbread is traditionally taken to a friend’s house for ‘first footing’. First footing is … Continue reading
