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The bastard
I’ve realised I’m running a bit late with my preserved-lemon-promise. I’ve been a bit tied up making bats. Obviously. As luck would have it preserved lemons only get better with age so if you’ve yet to...
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Palpitations
It’s slim kitchen-pickings this week…we move house on Saturday and little by little, day by day, our tiny apartment becomes more of a shadow of its former self. Only the essentials remain in the pantry...
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Hope and happiness
I can smell it. My nostrils are being tickled by the onset of warmer days…blooming flowers, steamy grass and hot asphalt. Not to mention those indecipherable dawn scents which tell you resolutely that...
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The Grinch
I haven’t had much time to get creative in the kitchen this week. I’ve been preoccupied. With quinoa mostly, but more on that later. The usual dinner suspects keep doing the rounds, challenging our...
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Little people
The time has come to do a blog post on baby food. You’ve gotta give me points for leaving it so long before embarking on this topic. I’ve had a baby for longer than I’ve had this blog so count your...
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Candied walnuts
My days of roaming the earth, free as a (childless) bird, seem to be an ever-foggier memory. Traveling for extended periods somehow still seems tangible yet if you really put your mind to it you...
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Tomato passata
What would you do with a bag of riper-than-ripe homegrown tomatoes? On any other day of the week I might have lamented my lack of energy and their brazen walking of the line between ripe and rotten,...
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The life-coaching salad dressing
Is it possible for a salad dressing to change your life? Probably not, but I will say that there is a slight chance it can enrich it for the better. Which, in and of itself, is more than a little on...
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Soul-warming chili beans
The telltale signs of winter are creeping brazenly into each new day. My fingers are doing their best iceblock impressions, my lips are an odd shade of purple and my toes have pretty much ceased to...
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Nutty, seedy loaf
So, it’s been a while since I last posted. Stating the obvious most likely. I’ve been running myself ragged getting the Spring 2013 range ready so I can finally start taking over the world. Every other...
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Coconut, cinnamon and orange facial scrub
I’ve had no facial scrub in my bathroom for what seems like forever now. Something about the single-income family which eradicates certain levels of skincare luxury. I hate being without a good scrub....
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Lemon and garlic white bean purée
Mmmm…these are truly delish. It’s a very quick dish to put together and great for a nutritious breakfast or lunch. I’ve made this a couple of times now; the first incarnation involved blitzing the bean...
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Courgette fritters with tomato and red pepper salsa
This fritter recipe is an idea my foodie friend Ruth sent my way some time ago with the littlies in mind. The Girl gave them a bit of a nudge first time I made them but turned her fussy little nose up...
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Herby quinoa salad with green beans and feta
I didn’t exactly set out to turn last night’s dinner into a blog post. It was so tasty though that we ate dinner in near-silence, compulsively shoveling each forkful into our mouths, slightly surprised...
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Mini-me meal…salmon and quinoa filo parcels
I try not to attempt a new Mini-me recipe unless I’ve got something else on hand in the more-than-likely outcome that The Girl outright rejects my efforts. In this case I had leftovers of her all-time...
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Orange, almond & blueberry muffins
I think we all know that muffins are hiding behind a very tenuous guise of being a healthy baked option. Let’s be honest here. For all intents and purposes they’re mini-cakes that have somehow acquired...
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Tomato & garlic couscous
This is another fantastic mid-week meal that I regularly serve up. It’s jam-packed with cherry tomatoes, more garlic than you can shake a stick at and is very quick and easy to put together. The...
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Dukkah preparations…dried lemon zest
I’ve been wanting to experiment with making my own dukkah for quite some time now. We spent some time in Copenhagen late last year and while Denmark is by no means my food mecca, there was one meal I...
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Dukkah wrap with tomato, mint and goat cheese
So anyway, as I was saying, the time had come to try my hand at blending my own version of the deliciously moreish Egyptian spice blend that we know as dukkah. The owner of the Copenhagen cafe in which...
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Raw chocolate bars with hazelnuts, coconut and vanilla
Finding delicious, nutritious convenience snacks has been one of the most confounding things when it comes to feeding my toddler. There’s very little out there which doesn’t make me recoil in horror at...
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