Month: August 2018
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Salted caramel sauce
The freezer tends to be a haven for treats. When I was little it was the home of ready-meals, frozen chips, waffles, hash-browns and those smiley-faced potato cakes everyone loved in their school lunch. We horded ice lollies and strawberry, chocolate and vanilla Mini Milks, and vanilla ice creams on sticks coated in nubbly almond-sprinkled […]
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Sea salt chocolate pots
Week-night dinners are never disappointing in this house. Calum amended his repertoire of chicken and Uncle Ben’s rice, telling his work colleagues he has no choice about the matter. Which is perfectly true. Instead he is rustling up a mean carbonara, prawns cooked in ginger and garlic with noodles drenched in soy sauce, steak-stuffed peppers […]
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London calling
In April I moved back to Manchester. Well-accustomed to the drizzle and grey skies this city knows so well, I was apprehensive at first. Four months, dazzling sunshine and a heat-wave later, I can safely say this move was a success. Thanks to a pretty great flatmate, a job I love, many long-awaited catch ups […]
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Strawberry and star anise jam
Sooo.. It may be time to address the elephant in the room. The one covered in jam. One of my weaknesses is jam. (Correction: my only weakness? Alas, no, cake!) Any friendly, regular readers of these blog posts may recall the occasional tribute to jam – deliberating over it, buying it, eating it, fawning over […]