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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 29, 2012 · 14 Comments
A bit too sweet for my liking… It was Mother’s Day in the UK recently and this year, and I decided to bake some chocolate chip cookies for my mother-in-law and my husband’s Nanny. Nanny unfortunately has been really poorly and the day before Mothering Sunday here, we drove to see her with my husband’s … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, American, Baking, biscuits, British, chocolate, Cookies, Country life, Dessert, Eggs, English, Recipes, Sweet
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 17, 2012 · 13 Comments
Friend-friendly suppers If there’s one thing I love more than spending my weekends cooking, it’s spending my weekends cooking for friends. I get an obscene, almost indecent, amount of pleasure from it, and nothing pleases me more than having my closest friends around the table laughing, talking, drinking and eating together. Naturally, I use them … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Baking, Cakes, Chicken, chillies, chocolate, Country life, Courgettes, Curry, Dinner, English, Fennel, Ginger, Indian, Ingredients, Lemongrass, Lunch, onion, paprika, Recipes, Roasting, shallots, Spicy, vegetables · Tagged with Chicken, Cook, Curry, Lemongrass, Recipe, Roast, Sunday, Sunday roast, Vegetable
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 13, 2012 · 29 Comments
Cooking with chorizo I’m still in a Spanish frame of mind after my recent trips to Spain. I was there two weeks ago but what some of you might not know is that I actually had to go back again last week for a couple of days. This last trip was for a different work … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Alcohol, Baking, Carrots, Casserole, Celery, chillies, Country life, Dinner, Garlic, Herbs, Ingredients, Lentils, Lunch, onion, paprika, Pork, Potatoes, Puy lentils, Recipes, sausage, Sausages, Spanish, Spicy, Stew, Stories, Thyme, vegetables · Tagged with Casserole, Chorizo, Cook, Lentil, Olive oil, Pork, Pork belly, Puy lentils, Sausage, Spain, Stew