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365-56 to 365-62 A Week in Pictures

  • Posted on March 10, 2010 at 9:39 am

Despite two outings, we’ve had a quetish week. Well, uneventful, but not exactly peaceful…

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Just Have to Share – Gran’s Flop Proof Chocolate Cake

  • Posted on March 7, 2010 at 10:00 am

I had a proper old fashioned kitchen tea when I got married, with broom dancing and games and so on. All the older ladies gave me their ‘life saving’ recipes to take forward with my own family. I put them in a folder and never looked at them again for years, until recently.

I came across the folder and found this recipe. Since then, I have made it in to cupcakes, individual sized mini cakes, a single layer cake, a double layer cake with jam and icing in the middle and a marbled cake. I am notoriously bad for flopping cakes, and this one, I never have.
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365-23 Apple Pie

  • Posted on February 2, 2010 at 9:54 am

I wrote a post on these Apple Pies recently. They are great, and I just love knowing there’s a stack in the freezer for whenever I need some warm comfort food to get me through this long winter!

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Can you say growth spurt?

  • Posted on December 8, 2009 at 11:26 pm

I am afflicted by a London-based curse. Well, for me it is London based. I develop tonsilitis and bronchitis every year. The first time it happened was our first year in London, December 2004, just in time for our wedding. I kind of croaked my ‘I do’s’ through a drug induced, fevered hue. Can you say growth spurt? – continue reading…

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