Category: Meals
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All friends bright and beautiful! Cuppa anyone?
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 about this part of the winter is that Johns beer and Pepsi (which he cannot…
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Roast: Slow Roasted Lavender Lamb with a side of Joy
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 the scent of the herb in each different prep step of the lamb. Each separate…
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What’s for dinner Mama? Fish?
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 grilling Prime Rib on his customised grill which is a pretty jazzy affair! Because Company…
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Celi Diet – Colourful food: Eat Pretty
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 beautiful bodies. Remember there is no failure in the Celi Diet. Because you are designing…
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Salmon and Shrimp Chowder because I can’t go Fishing on the Prairie.
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 day . Surfing mostly. Or looking for surf. When he goes away to work he…
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