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Yoghurt Cake
Recipe from Chocolate & Zucchini. I cannot enthuse enough about this cake! Lately I’ve been finding most cakes too sweet and/or greasy to stomach (horrors!) but this deals with both of those problems nicely. I also always like to have standbys of very quick and easy recipes, and this is certainly both. The only alterations [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Spiced Bean Pasties
800g shortcrust pastry
2 medium onions
4 cloves garlic
1 red pepper
1-2tbsp olive oil
400g sweet potatoes
650g cooked pinto beans
1tspn coriander
1tspn paprika
1/2tspn cumin
1/2tspn mace
Salt & freshly ground black pepper
Chop the onions and red pepper fairly finely and crush or chop the garlic. Put in a large pan with a splosh of olive oil and sweat over a low heat [...]
Earrings
For morris dancing, in my kit colours, with silver clog charms that were a great find on Etsy, and, of course, bells:
And just for being a bird obsessive:
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Saffron buns
Very rich, somewhere between a cake and a bread.
I’ve had them come out much more yellow than that before, though I thought I used about the same amount of saffron, hmm. Look at those darker bits where the strands are, though! And when I was at the stage where I’d mixed together egg, butter [...]
Waste Not Want Not
I have two sets of five 8-inch 2.5mm bamboo double-pointed needles that I’m not using at all at the moment. One of them I, erm, bought accidently in Germany as I didn’t understand what the guy in the shop was saying. Anyway, I’d already stopped using them when I got a set of 6-inch (well, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Chocolate Crunchies
Or, the store cupboard chocolate fix. These are none of your school fete stuff of cheap milk chocolate, but satisfyingly dark and fudgy.
2oz/50g butter
2tbsp golden syrup
2oz/50g icing sugar
3tbsp cocoa (I like heaped tablespoons for a bitter edge)
3oz/75g cornflakes
Melt the butter, syrup, icing sugar and cocoa together over a low heat. Remove from the heat and [...]
