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Hi, my name is Annie!
As a busy working mum I'm always looking for ways to save time (and money) in the kitchen but still produce healthy home-cooked meals. Here you can read about my continuing attempts to make delicious quick - & cheap - meals in no time! (and a few other recipes too...).
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Category Archives: Desserts
Lemon Tarts with Raspberry Sauce for Valentines Day
I seem incapable of making anything that doesn’t have lemons in it at the moment. First there was Lemon Shortbread – then Apple, Cinnamon and Lemon Pancakes – and then there was Warm potato salad with yoghurt lemon and chive … Continue reading
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Tagged lemons, puddings, raspberries
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Pancake Day and Apple, Cinnamon and Lemon Pancakes
It’s always a real treat to have pancakes in our house so we will definitely be having pancakes on Pancake Day. They were one of the first things I ever actually ‘cooked’ with the children. Even those who don’t like cooking…
Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes
They say that cooking is a Science. So as my contribution to pushing back the frontiers I decided to do some research into how to create the Perfect Brownies – but not just ordinary Brownies, I wanted to make Brownie … Continue reading
Quick but Memorable Feasts?
Many cooking magazines, recipe websites and cookbooks nowadays have a slant towards quick meals and ‘instant’ cooking. It seems that we all want to spend less and less time in the kitchen – and I am (clearly) no different! I … Continue reading
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Tagged peaches, puddings, raspberries
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Quick Plum Brulee
Lovely juicy ripe plums are one of my favourite fruits – it was a sad day when the plum tree in our back garden died. But the plum season is so short. Our tree used to produce a gorgeous crop … Continue reading
Peach Tarts
This is another end-of-summer-recipe – in fact, an end-of-holiday recipe – born from some peaches we bought all the way back from our holiday. Yes, we drove them 500 miles in a sweltering hot car (the air con had broken) … Continue reading
Lemon Raspberry Ripple Ice-cream
What do you think of when you think of summer? Sunshine? (of course) Beaches? (naturally) Wimbledon? (yes) Sandcastles? (maybe) Ice-cream? (Definitely YES). Well, this year we have been seriously short on the more standard summery things like sun, heatwaves, sandcastles … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts, Freezing
Tagged freezing, ice-cream, lemons, Make Ahead, puddings, raspberries
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