I don’t get all the fuss really, to me they’re just fruit scones with sweet stuff drizzled in lines, but a) I
don’t can’t really bake and b) I’m a cohabiting, mass-dodging, wine-swilling semi-heathen, so we should probably discount my opinion fairly sharpish.
In case you are partial to...
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My new fixation of late is Riesling, as the warm sunny evenings we’re miraculously enjoying cry out for a glass of something crisp and dry. So, emboldened by the surprisingly enjoyable bottle of
Riesling for just €5.49 in Lidl I rashly decided that all wine from the...
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I was a super-duper good girl this week. Not even €40 for 14 meals! This week has been one of my "more calories, less cost" notions, partly because I was beavering away at Irish-style recipes such as Steak & Guinness Pies and Whiskey Cake for the week that's in...
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The weekly shop this week is actually fairly reasonable, due in no small part to the fact that as I slaved at the stove for hours on Monday, we’re having
galettes for lunch all bloody week. The Sunday roast (becoming quite a habit now!) was an absolutely...
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Ok so I was a wee bit more frugal this week, despite the fact I got a notion to cook cassoulet of all things (My Mum’s fault, we’ve just come back from a short trip to the Aude region!), which is a very traditional country dish in France, but...
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My weekly shop yesterday involved a bit of a wild card – Mother in Law coming to dinner. This meant that my usual hasty lazy thrown-together stir fry of a Sunday evening would have to be replaced by a proper meal. Involving effort. No problem, I thought, tearing through...
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Now call me a philistine (you’d be quite right), but ever since I first tasted Malbec in Chicago and was given a very knowledgeable run-through of its background, I presumed it was Argentinean. Exclusively. Now, obviously, this lovely bottle of red stuff mellowing in my kitchen (I photographed it,...
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Stock cubes. Probably the most boring thing in the pantry, but equally the most useful. Seriously, how many animal carcasses do you have lying around your house waiting to be boiled down for stock? None? Really? Me neither. Hence, little crumbly squares of genius.
However, they’re not without their faults....
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I took a total punt on this one. Albeit a reasonably educated one. My logic, thrashed out while standing in Lidl staring at the wine aisle - looking rather odd to passing customers, no doubt – was that I was in a German store. Riesling is a German wine...
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Right, let’s address the elephant in the room. We all eat Nutella by the spoonful. It’s not pretty, it’s not smart, but it is probably the single most satisfying thing you could ever do with a spoon and a jar. It has comforted me through times of heartbreak, worry...
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