Recipes
These are all the posts in the “recipes” category, part of the “cooking” section.
I stumbled upon this recipe a little while ago and it’s become a favourite in the Peach household – not only is it one of the nicest, richest desserts I’ve ever eaten, it both uses up eggs (a good thing!) and is really pretty easy & quick to make as well. It’s easy because it [...]
I meant to write up this recipe a few weeks ago but in all the end of year/new 2011 goals excitement, I forgot. The rich dark treacle flavour and cinnamon make them a great winter biscuit – almost warming! They’re also a perfect fill-the-oven companion to my quick-and-easy soda bread recipe – I get my [...]
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I mentioned on Monday that I made a batch of lemon curd while my frustrating, sticky marmalade was boiling away. Lemon curd is far easier and more fun to make than marmalade, and oh my wow, it’s delicious. It doesn’t have a long shelf life though – what with the butter and the eggs – [...]
Could a sausage and lentil casserole be anything other than spicy with us? We heart the spice! I first made this when we were on holiday in a wonderful cottage in Staithes a few years ago so it always has connotations of relaxed cosiness – we’ve been there a couple of times out of season [...]
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The other week, I asked about how people manage with baking when the weather is cooler – when it’s hard to maintain a yeast-friendly heat for bread to rise (especially if you’re going for a 12-18hr slow rise bread). In the comments, Karen M said: In my rural living days without electricity or central heating, [...]
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At the end of last week, we bought a chicken. We don’t eat that much chicken really and when we do, we tend to get on-offer pieces so I’ve probably only roasted whole chickens a dozen times or so and they’ve been ok, good even, but not great. This time I decided it was going [...]
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