Category Archives: food

reflections and windows

By Lucy | Published March 9, 2010

The bridge did get finished:

Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also  a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion

It is a montezuma’s very dark bar…

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walnut cake and sheep

By Lucy | Published February 28, 2010

Vegan Easter has been updated
Walnut cake with a tablespoon of Nocaf added to the mix. It is not coffeeish as had intended but is very nice:

1st of March tomorrow, so will it get more springlike?

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toast, Valentine cookies and a cheesecake

By Lucy | Published February 14, 2010

We do still favour green smoothies for breakfast but on a cold winter’s day sometimes only decadently topped toast will do

Valentine cookies: made this basic dough and did half plain (some topped with coconut), a quarter of it with a little finely chopped fresh ginger and the other quarter with unwaxed lemon rind, beautiful flavours!

Tried [...]

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cheap

By Lucy | Published February 2, 2010

a frugal recipe again, basic pasties :)
and bargains to be had – the book people are offering 10% off all orders until midnight tomorrow (Wed. 3rd Feb) – just enter WIN10 at checkout for offer.

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Scottish macaroons

By Lucy | Published January 24, 2010

If you’re looking for a Scottish dish to make for Burns night other than haggis*, these are very good – nothing like the English item of the same name and containing the somewhat surprising ingredient of potato (undetectable, is lovely fondant) – the recipe is still up on Cat’s old blog with pics of them properly covered in coconut, of [...]

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blog, Illich and broth

By Lucy | Published January 23, 2010

Have finally got the blog how I want it – a terrible tale of databases, installations of wordpress and corrupted (by me) css files ensued but I’ve now uploaded the archives (see drop down on sidebar) and cleaned up dead links too
Reading a book lent by my mum. She found it while scouring her shelves during the [...]

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a casserole and a cookbook

By Lucy | Published January 12, 2010

We will have been married 20 years this year… which causes me to reflect how far weve come, how much the world has changed in that time and to note the two items above. They were given to us as a wedding present by friends who I used to babysit for and here they are still [...]

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bloggage, food and snow

By Lucy | Published January 6, 2010

First off the Home Baked blog is having a monthly baking challenge – read about it here and see January’s theme here. I’m the guest judge this month – v exciting
Then we have a new blog on the sidebar – Vegan Kid - lots of gorgeous looking food there too…
Then, thanks to the Skint [...]

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Happy 2010!!!

By Lucy | Published January 1, 2010

Let it be a good one for all of us! Starting the year as we mean to go on… with yet more soup

recipe

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tomato and rice soup

By Lucy | Published December 29, 2009

recipe here on frugal - snow and ice continuing, rarely known it so cold!

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