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Scottish macaroons

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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ice cream bombe

Was lovely, lovely pud – recipe up on Yule, pictorial instructions below

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freeze until needed!

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little logs

recipe here. Go very well with A Muppet Christmas Carol, lots of snow outside and a roaring fire :D

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getting a bit festive

Charlotte’s mince pies and chocolate logs made by a friend… said logs went very well with A Christmas Carol in 3D. Wonderful film, amazing having snow falling all round us like that

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Summer Solstice

Celebrated by lying in the sun, on the grass all afternoon… very blissful.
Chocolate mint nut mylk:

Handful cacao nibs, few brazil nuts, a few springs of mint, a little agave, water… very nice, though very rich. Next time will try hemp seeds instead of nuts and vanilla instead of agave

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Beltane

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Christmas 2008

Had lovely time with family

menu added by request  
starter: honeydew and cantaloupe melons with pomegranate. main: chestnut and red wine pate encroute – a Rose Elliot recipe from Vegan Feasts; fennel and carrot in white sauce (mustard, tahini, stock cube in mix); roast potatoes; sprouts; sage, rosemary and onion stuffing; redwood offcut sausages with their [...]

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seasonal and busy

not exactly festive but I took these pics in St. Nicholas churchyard the other day and I like them

Went to the panto at HMT – outside, beforehand:

We sat in a box – was amazed to discover that it was almost the same price as the stalls would have been for all of us. Captain Hook [...]

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Halloween 2008

a gentle start to the day: 

getting costumed up:

then off to the party!!

Moonrabbit Lucy’s fabulous animatronic butler – speaks, breathes, turns head and eyes…

 
and a little education did happen too Daytime pics of graves as I, correctly, doubted my camera’s night-time abilities…

The witches walk took place in the dark with torches and some history about the [...]

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summer solstice

We do actually eat blue stars  Based on recipe here
studying sonnets here just now. Apparently in the 1590’s May did extend into what is now our June so not too inappropriate:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath [...]

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