I love the way recipe names are jazzed up over the years to make them sound more enticing. Smashed potatoes is much more interesting than ‘mashed’ potato’, don’t you think? When I first saw a reference to smashed potatoes I just had to try them and have now tried a few different approaches. I find […]
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Does your family love ‘seasoning’ with their roast chicken or turkey? I met an American girl some years ago who made ‘seasoning’ in a large dish rather than cooked it inside the bird. The ‘seasoning’ was a major part of the meal. Here in Australia we tend to place the ‘seasoning’ mix inside the bird and […]
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This is one of my favourite Christmas recipes from Mum’s Recipe Book. I remember helping mum with this when I was quite young. She would ask me to crush the biscuits to go into the mix. But my favourite thing was opening the can of condensed milk and pouring the sticky liquid into the bowl. […]
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Do you make your own Christmas Pudding or do you buy one? I know there are many good charities out there that sell quality puddings to raise money but even these will never be as good as the homemade ‘real deal’. I say this with confidence and I know that if you are a pudding […]
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Does your family have favourite Christmas foods? We certainly do and I love cooking up a storm – particularly to make gifts for friends and family. One of the our favourite family sweet treats is Rocky Road. I use a recipe from Mum’s Recipe Book for this. But a few years ago I made this […]
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I am always on the look out for interesting salads for Christmas. Not that all my family will eat exotic salads but that doesn’t stop me experimenting. Hopefully one day they will appreciate the effort! This recipe is similar to one I had in a restaurant a few years ago. The only difference is that […]
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There was a time when I baked biscuits and cakes every week and they were eaten very quickly by my hungry family. I also used to have a cake or two in the freezer for unexpected visitors etc. But these days Andrew and I eat very little sugar and even less cake. But I still […]
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We have been writing about healthy households for most of this year. We thought it might be time to recap and bring it all together for you. So here are our 10 tips for healthy households with links back to some of our posts this year: Tip #1 A healthy household is one where everyone’s […]
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Being proactive rather than reactive is something I think about all the time and has become a ‘catch cry’ in my every day work as a compliance consultant. My job often involves sorting out problems that could have been avoided if people thought ahead and didn’t just live for the moment! But it is not […]
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Have you ever made your own ice cream? When I was very young my mother made our ice cream all the time because you just could not buy it. It took quite a lot of effort to make as there were several cycles of freezing and beating to go through to make sure the final […]
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