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
A look back in time: thebigfatnoodle spring clean
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 27, 2012 · 17 Comments
Nothing beats a good spring cleaning It was long overdue but it really needed to be done, and what better way to make sure I stayed off my broken foot then to finally finish the blog clean up I started a few weeks ago. It’s taken me almost a month to do so, not just … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Alcohol, American, amuse bouche, Baking, Barbecue, Beef, Breakfast, British, Cakes, Chicken, Cool stuff, Country life, Dessert, Dinner, england, English, Features, Fish, Pork, seafood, Stories, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Barbecue, Chinese cuisine, Cook, Jamie Oliver, London, Olive oil, Pork belly, San Francisco
Friday is for fish: Steamed fish (hake) Chinese-style
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 20, 2012 · 17 Comments
A fish dish fit for a king I haven’t done a Friday Is For Fish recipe in a really long time, so it’s really disappointing for me when the photos I take don’t come out as nice as I’d like them to. This week, I made some steamed fish, Chinese-style, which I was really looking … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Banquet, Chinese, Dinner, Fish, Ginger, Hake, Lunch, scallions, soy sauce, Spring onions, Stories, Sugar, vegetable oil · Tagged with Banquet, Chinese cuisine, Cook, Fish, Ginger, Hake, Scallion, Soy sauce, Steamed fish, Steaming
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
Red spaghetti… and a grumpy old woman’s take on the rest of my Chelsea Flower Show 2012 piccies
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on June 3, 2012 · 6 Comments
Part food post, part flower show As I’d already posted some of the food-oriented images from our trip to the Chelsea Flower Show, I originally set out to focus this post on a staple recipe that has sustained both my husband and I during these last few turbulent weeks. The idea was that I would … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Basil, British, Cars, Cherry tomatoes, Cool stuff, Country life, Dinner, English, Features, Garden, Garlic, Italian, onion, oregano, Pasta, Recipes, shallots, Stories, Tomatoes, vegetables, Vegetarian, Vinegar · Tagged with Chelsea Flower Show, English garden, Godalming, Italian, Olive oil, Pasta, Queen, Royal Horticultural Society
Queen’s Jubilee celebrations start early :)
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on May 30, 2012 · 4 Comments
I’m interrupting my usual blogging schedule with this spur-of-the-moment post. My colleague Jess arrived at work today with special (and early) Queen’s Jubilee cupcakes for us all – YUM-O! And it tasted good…! 🙂
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Category Adventures, Cakes, Stories · Tagged with Cupcakes, Queen's Jubilee
If you haven’t had enough chocolate yet… hazelnut and walnut chocolate brownies
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on April 9, 2012 · 13 Comments
Crispy squidgy chocolate goodness As some of you may know, I’m married to a chocolate fiend. My husband has to eat chocolate every day and I’ve never known him not to. So imagine my surprise when this Easter, he told me he didn’t want me to buy him an Easter egg. I thought this was … Continue reading →
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A hint of chocolate in prep for Easter: Mary Berry’s Chocolate Loaf Cake
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on April 4, 2012 · 16 Comments
The legend that is Mary Berry I only have one recipe to post this week as I spent last weekend with friends and so I only made it into the kitchen late on Sunday night after everyone had left. I was however determined to herald my husband’s return from his ski trip by making him … Continue reading →
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Category Adventures, Baking, Bread, British, Butter, Cakes, chocolate, Country life, Dessert, Eggs, Flour, Ingredients, Recipes, Stories, Sweet, Vanilla · Tagged with Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Chocolate cake, Cocoa solids, Flour, Mary Berry, Recipe