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Flashback Thursday – My 2nd most popular recipe
This post first appeared on my blog just over three years ago and it’s been in my stats every week since then. I think that’s at least partly because it’s a Jamie Oliver recipe which would be regularly searched for … Continue reading
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One Step Closer
Yet again it’s been a quiet six months on the blog – though with a few odd days where my stats went through the roof (relatively speaking consider this little blog is no high traffic site) for no apparent reason. … Continue reading
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Pinterest in the Kitchen – Asian Flavours
I was once asked at a dinner party “If you could only eat one cuisine for the rest of your life what would it be?” My immediate answer was Japanese. It was a kind of strange answer for me … Continue reading
Pinterest in the Kitchen – Salads
The best thing about the weather warming up (well, one of the best anyway) is the start of BBQ season. A dinner of grilled meat and a salad goes down well with us Good’s. While most of the tribe would … Continue reading
Pinterest in the Kitchen – Chicken
I am somewhat addicted to pinterest, especially when it comes to collecting recipes. It’s my little Saturday evening ritual, going through my weekly board suggestions or just randomly searching, adding anything the looks interesting to my ever increasing number of … Continue reading
Recipe: Punchy Crunchy Lamb Noodle Salad
Sometime last year I won a copy of Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie cookbook through the Good Guys. It has become a regular fixture on my kitchen recipe stand and has somewhat transformed how I think about food and cooking, … Continue reading
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Tagged budget recipes, cooking on a budget, Jamie Oliver, lamb recipes, lamb salad
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Winning the mealtime wars?
When Miss now Five turned two she went from being a fabulous eater that astounded everyone with her varied diet and interesting tastes, to a stubborn, infuriating food refuser. Some days she ate little more than a handful of sultanas. … Continue reading
Hey there…….
Oh I have been a neglectful blogger and sadly this time it hasn’t been an absence caused by too much fun stuff happening around here. Instead I’ve been finishing up a big assignment, managing the kind of family stuff you … Continue reading
I get enormous satisfaction from making my food and cooking stretch further than might initially be thought possible. There’s nothing I like more, with our tight budget, than when I can pull together an extra meal for the four of … Continue reading
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Tagged budget recipes, cooking, cooking on a budget, frugal living
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In my kitchen – preserves
A couple of weeks ago I spent considerable time preserving some of the glut crops I had been picking from the garden including mountains of cucumbers, kilos of zucchinis and piles of cherry tomatoes. I shared this and some photos … Continue reading
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