It’s fair to say that we get through more than our fair share of biscuits in this house! Almost any flavour, we just love them all but our favourite has to be the ubiquitous Chocolate Chip ‘Cookie’ (or biscuits as we prefer to call them!) There are quite a few choices to be had in […]
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This recipe for a quick and easy tomato sauce has to be one of the most versatile recipes you will ever make! Is it really Super Simple To Make? It is really quick to make, only uses the smallest amount of ingredients and is super simple to do. Once you have it made it can
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Everyone needs a great recipe for quiche and this is mine, a thrifty full of flavour classic quiche recipe that lights up every face at the dinner table! Why Make Quiche At Home? …especially when the supermarkets sell so many varieties of quiche and all you have to do is pop it in the oven
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These scones are a must-have for a proper Great British Afternoon Tea. Scones are one of the recipes it really is essential to master. When you fancy a sweet treat in a hurry, these are perfect. They can be weighed, mixed and baked within half an hour! And as they are best eaten warm you
I love mashed potatoes and invariably make too much every time we have them, but then there are some great things you can make with leftovers and mash is very versatile! My favourites are these deliciously savoury scones, which are a real hit at supper time – I like to have them warm with a
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Until I had discovered how simple (not to mention thrifty!) it is to make fresh chicken stock, making gravy had never been an issue – you simply spooned the granules out of the tub into a jug and poured over boiling water…nothing could be easier. But then I did make stock and it was a
At the moment, chickens really do seem to be very good value. Waitrose (not often thought of as a bargain supermarket!) are currently running a ‘Half-Price’ campaign across their stores, which does include medium size birds. So a chicken of about 2kg is costing less than £3.50 right now until the end of January! So, with
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For years I have always used stock cubes whenever I needed to cook anything that called for ‘a little fresh stock’. Making it from scratch seemed such a fuss and not really worth the effort but, as we had recently bought so many chickens to cut up into joints for the freezer (see the post
This simple very tasty Sausage Flan recipe comes from one of my favourite cookbooks Cooking Is Fun from Good Housekeeping. It is incredibly easy, needs only a few ingredients and, although it maybe won’t win any prizes for it’s looks, it is incredibly tasty – not to mention very cheap to make!
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