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2nd September 2018

Scotch Eggs

So recently I got a lot of duck eggs in to make Nixon specials when I had a lot of visitors over. However…. said visitors didn’t get up early enough to have them before they left so I needed to decide how to use up the eggs. As such I decided to have a try at making scotch eggs. I...

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15th May 2018

Cannelloni with beef ragù and blue cheese

  Ingredients 1 large onion 1 carrot 6 cloves of garlic 2 stick of celery olive oil 400 g quality minced chuck steak 45 g higher-welfare pancetta 100 ml red wine 250 ml organic beef stock 2 x 400 g tins of chopped tomatoes 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 pinch of sugar 1 tablespoon tomato purée 200 ml single cream...

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30th April 2018

Pizza!

So I’ve never made pizza before but thought I’d give it a go. It starts off like bread with the dough. The recipe I was using (again from the good housekeeping book) used a ratio of 8oz of flour and 150 ml of water. Once the dough has risen once, it needs to be rolled and had oil spread over...

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29th April 2018

Lasagne

So last night we had bolognese and had lots of leftovers so decided to make a lasagna. I usually just cover the top of the lasagna with a plain cheese sauce but tonight I thought I’d do a bit of experimenting and some seasoning to it. I added a bit a of pepper, some rosemary salt, some chilli flakes, some...

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28th April 2018

Cheesy Pull-Apart Bread with Bacon, Garlic and Cheese

Now, when making this we had lots of cheese and bacon in the fridge that needed eating up quickly. So we bought a round loaf to make this. All we had to do was cut up the loaf add the cheese, bacon and some garlic. It was amazingly tasty even if very unhealthy.  

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28th April 2018

Diamond Wedding Cake

I made a cake for a diamond wedding anniversary the other year. As tradition in my family, a good amount of a bottle of brandy was added into the fruit cake before it was iced.  

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28th April 2018

Kitkat Cake

This is was pretty fun to make if a bit fiddly. The cake is just a sponge cake, covered in buttercream. I then stuck kitkat fingers all round the outside and pressed individual m and ms all over the top.  

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28th April 2018

Nixon Special

Now this isn’t something I’ve ever cooked myself, I’ve always had it done for me. I originally found this on the marmite Facebook page. It soon became a firm favourite with my immediate family and then nicknamed a “Nixon Special” by the rest of the family. It’s a crumpet with lots of marmite and a runny poached egg on top

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28th April 2018

Christmas Dinner

So last Christmas we hosted for the first time. Sadly, I ended up being quite ill, so I had to get a lot of help from my mum to get the dinner ready. But it all ended up done and was a great success. At the bottom we have cauliflower cheese and cheesy leeks. Behind that we have roast potatoes...

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28th April 2018

Lobster

Lobster has always been a firm favourite in my family and actually ended up being our traditional Christmas dinner instead of turkey.  Growing up living on the coast, it was surprisingly difficult to aquire live lobsters – we didn’t have any fishmongers left in the town. It’s actally easier for me to get now, live about an hour and a...

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