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Even more leftovers: Chicken Noodle Soup
I really didn't feel like cooking tonight but I had some leftover roast chicken from Sunday, including the carcass and really didn't want it to go to waste (and I will have less time for cooking the...
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A New Adventure
I've been on an allotment waiting list for a little over a year and recently I got The Call. I was expecting to be on the list for a lot longer, to be honest, so I was surprised, but also excited.The...
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Plotting my plot
I want to blog about my progress with the allotment as much as I can, to serve as a record for myself if nothing else.On Sunday, we started clearing it of rubbish. We still need to take a lot of it to...
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Allotment update - week 1
We spent a good few hours at the allotment this weekend. With help from a friend, we got rid of most of the rest of the rubbish to the tip. I also picked up more rotten potatoes than I care to think...
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River Cottage Rocks - Chickpea ketchup curry
I don't normally take part in blog challenges - mostly because I don't often have the time to cook things that I wasn't already planning on cooking. However, the River Cottage Rocks blog challenge...
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Pot Roast Guinea Fowl with Sausage and Apple
I prefer the taste of guinea fowl to chicken. And they were on offer in Sainsbury's, so naturally I bought one. And then I remembered about a great Nigel Slater recipe for pot roast guinea fowl from...
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Wedding Cake
It may or may not have escaped your notice that I am getting married. In May.There's not a huge amount I can tell you about the food yet, other than give you a list of the kind of food we're having....
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Biskuttini tal-Lewz (Almond Biscuits)
I recently discovered ilovefood.com.mt, which is a great resource for Maltese recipes and also sells Maltese foodstuffs in the online shop (very tempting, but the shipping costs to the UK are...
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River Cottage Rocks #2: - Pork belly with coriander and fennel crackling
This month's theme for the River Cottage Rocks challenge is Sunday Lunch, hosted by Jo of Jo's Kitchen. Not sure I quite managed to enjoy a leisurely Sunday pottering about in the kitchen, as Jo...
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Allotment update - "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Not an awful lot to report on the allotment. We have mostly been weeding and adding compost to the soil. These are jobs that would normally be done over Winter, but as we only got our allotment at the...
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Roast Broccoli
The thing about grocery shopping online is that sometimes you don't know how much you're going to get of something. For example, in my last shop I ordered 1 broccoli, and the broccoli that arrived was...
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Allotment update - I've changed my mind, weeds aren't flowers too!
Well, Japanese Knotweed certainly isn't a welcome guest on the allotment. I suspected we had some bindweed due to the roots I'd dug up when I'd been digging over the allotment. But now we've had a...
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I got married
Sorry about the silence, folks.In short, I got married then went on honeymoon.I will be posting about these things in greater detail in the near future, but for now, have a picture to tide you over.
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The Wedding
I promised a more detailed post about the wedding, so here it is, with a slight emphasis on food. Credit to Fierce Photography for the beautiful photos.Preparations began in my flat. The theme of my...
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Ta Mena Estate, Gozo, Malta
After the wedding, there was of course a honeymoon. We visited the island of Gozo in Malta for two weeks. I had been to Malta once before with my family, but we had only done a day trip to Gozo, so...
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Restaurant Review: Malmaison, Birmingham
Last weekend I attended a Midlands Bloggers meet-up. The meet-up took place at the Malmaison Brasserie in Birmingham organised by Cat of Yellow Days. She managed to get us a deal where we paid £18.50...
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New Blog
Just a little advert for my new blog:The Essay of Doom and other Tales of Academic WoeIt will not be replacing this blog in any way, shape or form; it is to record my adventures in academia, studying...
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Naked Wines Wine Tasting, Birmingham
My husband is a member of online wine sellers Naked Wines (or an "angel" as they call their members), and noticed a couple of months ago that they were doing a series of wine tastings across the...
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Left-overs: Italian-style Chicken Stew
Given that my goal this year was to try to waste less food and to do more creative things with left-overs, I thought it was high time I blogged about using left-overs again! My go-to left-over beef...
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The end of an adventure
I haven't written about this yet, even though the decision was made over a month ago now.After we came back from Honeymoon, it became very evident that I was going to have to give up the allotment....
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