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Recipe: Ras El Hanout Shortbread
My mother makes, hands down, the best shortbread I’ve tasted. It’s crispy and buttery and really ‘short’, and basically just practically perfect in every way. You’d think, wouldn’t you, that this...
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Recipe: Apricot and Peach Schnapps Shortbread from Annette’s Subconscious Mind
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I mean, for starters, there’s John Lennon, though I don’t believe that imaginary biscuits were ever on his agenda in a big way. Perhaps they...
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Christmas Leftovers Recipe: Moroccan Chicken and Pumpkin Filo Triangles
I make a variation of this recipe basically every time I do a roast or slow-cooked chicken. With only two of us in the household, we don’t use much chicken on the first meal, and while I love roast...
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Recipe: Gluten-free orange and cardamom wafers
These were going to be cut-out biscuits for the Ovarian Cancer fundraising Morning Teal, but first I wanted to make them without egg, for my friend who can’t eat eggs, and then I thought I’d make them...
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Recipe: Fruit Mince Filo Cigars
Last weekend, I was invited to a Yule celebration at the home of one of my friends from work. It was an amazingly fun evening (I think I could become addicted to the werewolf card game, even though...
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Recipe: Mini and Terribly Inauthentic Croquembouche
Je suis à Paris! Et alors il faut écrire une recette typiquement Française, n’est pas? This is another time-travelling post (spooky!), which is always a risk. I’ll look pretty silly if I perish in a...
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Recipe: Asparagus and Carrot Pastries
My blog has gone a bit quiet over the last few days for several reasons. The first is that I bought an iPad, and succumbed to the excitement of cookbook apps and also interactive biology and chemistry...
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Recipe: Christmassy Almond Butter Cookies (vegan and gluten free and almost...
Ah, December. No matter what I do, it seems to get away from me, and this year, more than ever. I wound up doing most of my Christmas Baking last weekend – all day on Sunday, in fact – and only got...
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Recipe: Eggplant Tarts
My brother and I have an annual tradition for Christmas, where his gift to me is a ticket to one day of the Boxing Day test, and mine to him is a picnic lunch for my brother and sister-in-law and their...
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Recipe: Ridiculously Decadent, Sin-Black Biscuits for Purim
OK, so the first thing you will notice about this post is that it isn’t Purim. (Perhaps I am overestimating my readers’ grasp of just when all the Jewish festivals are, but then again, since my...
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Recipe: Almond biscuits with Davidson Plum Powder and Ruby Ganache
I know. I know. This is a completely ridiculous recipe to share because it’s basically all obscure ingredients. And do you want to know how it came about? It came about because we had a bake sale...
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Recipe: Accidentally low-sugar pistachio biscuits with apricot jam
So this recipe was going to be yet another of my nut-based gluten-free biscuits. Since I had a lot of pistachios and it is Christmas baking time, I thought it might be fun to make extremely green...
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Recipe: Spanak-not-ika (Green leafy things and cheeses in pastry)
We have been getting some disgustingly hot weather recently, and as a big fan of not cooking in hot weather, I’ve been trying to be organised so that we can get something healthy on the table without...
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