Category Archives: Meals

Food I can eat with my eyes!

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

Do you guys deliver? It is Saturday, the day I usually share some new (to me) blogs with you all.  However this week I succumbed to PRETTY!  and pretty SIMPLE. So I am being naughty and I have swiped some … Continue reading →

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Cows like to party too.

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

The visitors decided to hang out in the barn yard. Delighted by the nosy cows.  Queenie mooched about chatting with the girls. And the boys. It was a lovely laid back evening with a glass of wine in the newly … Continue reading →

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Marmalade Chicken – Hands Up Who Saw THAT Coming!

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Two recipes today! Often I use the Honey Lemon Marmalade I made yesterday, to baste a roasting chicken.  I could make this one for you but it is just as easy to describe. Simply stuff the bird with chunks of … Continue reading →

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All friends bright and beautiful! Cuppa anyone?

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

One annoying thing about the winter is that my car, that runs on recycled cooking oil, has to switch to diesel. When it is really cold the oil solidifies and the car will not start… oh dear. A positive thing … Continue reading →

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Roast: Slow Roasted Lavender Lamb with a side of Joy

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

YES! The big day has arrived! We are going to slow roast some lamb. This roast will have three layers of bright joyful lavender notes. Almost provencal actually as I shall also add a little rosemary and garlic. I want … Continue reading →

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What’s for dinner Mama? Fish?

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

Crostini, using home made rosemary bread, demanded something special,  so tonight we are starting with  ChgJohn’s  Baked Brie with Caramelised Onions. This was just divine. The guests just woofed this down. ChgJohn told me to make TWO! Third Son is … Continue reading →

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Celi Diet – Colourful food: Eat Pretty

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

I have wandered about some of the dieting sites a little more and oh dear some of them are grim. Dieters trying to yank and beat their bodies into weird shapes.  And getting angry and miserable about it.  All those … Continue reading →

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Salmon and Shrimp Chowder because I can’t go Fishing on the Prairie.

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

I have a friend, who lives by himself in a beach house on stilts, up the East Coast,  in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.  It is a beautiful bay, deserted for most of the year. He is on the beach every … Continue reading →

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Butternut, Chickpea Curry with Eggplant and another award!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

We are picking plenty of butternut now and I know I am supposed to be storing them in the basement for the winter but they are just so tasty.  Eggplants or aubergine seem to have been our best fruiting plant … Continue reading →

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Egg Nog is not only for Christmas, and T learns about gas – for mw&g

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

When we were kids and living in that big beach house, there was a period when my mother became unwell.  For quite some time actually. And during the times when she was in bed  I would take over the kitchen … Continue reading →

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