A longer sabbatical than I’d originally planned…
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on August 13, 2013 · 4 Comments
Hi everyone Is anyone still out there??? It has been such a LONG time since my last post, and I’m really sorry about that. I did kind of drop off the planet and the longer I stayed away, the harder it was to get back to thebigfatnoodle. There were a myriad of reasons that I … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Country life, Godalming, Stories · Tagged with crumpet, mini schnauzer
Every day should be pancake day
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 14, 2012 · 22 Comments
Be careful what you wish for… When I was growing up, I always wanted to break a limb, ideally my arm. It had nothing to do with wanting broken bones and everything to do with wearing a cast. Kids in the neighbourhood who did break bones and wear casts lorded it over every other able-bodied … Continue reading →
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It’s curry time! Curry puff puffs, curry filo puffs and curry cups
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 17, 2012 · 12 Comments
Curry in a hurry If there’s one type of food that the Brits have truly taken to their hearts and made their own, it is the curry. It’s Britain’s favourite take-away and I daresay the number of Indian restaurants could rival the number of pubs in the UK quite easily. Anyone know if that might … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Baking, British, Chicken, chillies, Cool stuff, Country life, cumin, Curry, Dinner, Edamame, Eggs, English, Features, Flour, Garlic, Godalming, Indian, Ingredients, Lemon, London, Lunch, Mangoes, Noodles, onion, Potatoes, Recipes, shallots, Singapore, Sour, Southern Indian, Spicy, Spinach, Stories, vegetables · Tagged with Boiled egg, Curry, Curry noodles, Curry puff, Filo pastry, Godalming, Gordon Ramsay, Indian cuisine, Noodles, Pastie, Pasty, Puff pastry
I dare you to stop at one… les chouquettes
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 9, 2012 · 13 Comments
One of the perks of my job is that I get to go to Roland Garros (or more commonly known as the French Open) every year. The company I work for is one of the main sponsors of Roland Garros, so we take a bunch of journalists to meet up with some of our execs … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Baking, Breakfast, Cakes, Cool stuff, Country life, Eggs, Features, Flour, French, Godalming, Ingredients, Recipes, Stories, Sweet · Tagged with bakery, Butter, cakes, Centre Court, choquettes, Choux pastry, David Lebovitz, French Open, Gare Du Nord, Nib sugar, Paris
For her Majesty… thebigfatnoodle’s Diamond Jubilee cake for the Queen
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 3, 2012 · 16 Comments
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee As I sit here typing, I’m watching the Queen’s floating pageant take place on our TV. The 1,000 ships that are taking part in the flotilla will actually end up right outside our flat in London at the end of the day. Unfortunately, we no longer live there so we are … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Baking, blueberries, British, Cakes, Cool stuff, Country life, Dessert, Eggs, English, Features, Flour, Fruit, Fruits, Godalming, Raspberries, Recipes, Singapore, Stories, strawberries, Sweet · Tagged with Cake, Diamond Jubilee, London, Queen, Singapore, Sponge cake, Tasty Kitchen, Union Flag
Simple salads: Apple, bresaola and cambozola salad
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 21, 2012 · 40 Comments
Changing a lifetime of bad eating habits I am really, really annoyed with myself. I’ve been looking forwarding to making and posting this recipe for some time now, but when I finally made it and took my usual pictures to show you, I forgot to add the toasted walnuts before I took the final snaps. … Continue reading →
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A lime and ponzu dressed salmon carpaccio
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 13, 2012 · 27 Comments
Valentine’s Day – celebrate it because you want to and not because the calendar tells you to… Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which I and many others I know cynically call Hallmark Day. I personally don’t believe that we need a special day to celebrate love when we should be celebrating it every moment of every … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Chives, Country life, Dressing, Fish, Godalming, Japanese, Limes, London, Recipes, salad, salmon, seafood, Stories, watercress, Winter · Tagged with carpaccio, Ceviche, Godalming, Holiday, Japanese, Limes, London, Ponzu, Public relations, salmon, Sesame, Singapore, Valentine, Valentine Day
Crispy and chewy cranberry oat biscuits in less than 30mins
Standard · Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 11, 2012 · 32 Comments
If you’re an impatient baker like me, you’ll love that these biscuits take less than 30 minutes to make and bake Yay, it’s the weekend and that can mean only one thing – a chance for me to tinker in the kitchen! Which is exactly what I did the moment I woke up this morning. … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, biscuits, Breakfast, Butter, Cakes, Cookies, Country life, Cranberries, Dessert, English, Features, Flour, Fruit, Fruits, Garden, Godalming, Honey, Ingredients, oats, Recipes, Stories, Sweet, tea, Vegetarian · Tagged with Baking, Biscuit, Cake, Cook, cranberries, Cranberry biscuits, Flour, Home, Oat biscuits, Oat cookies, oven
The Big Freeze is back! A stroll through my own backyard winter wonderland
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 9, 2012 · 26 Comments
No recipe today I’m afraid… in fact, I’ve not cooked all week but I’ll be back with some recipes soon enough. Meantime, do you fancy a virtual walk with me through my town in our little corner of England? Last weekend, our town was only lightly dusted with snow so our planned walk turned out … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Country life, Godalming, Stories · Tagged with Christmas, England, Farncombe, Godalming, Recreation, Snow, Snowball fight, Winter Wonderland