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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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Peach Ice-cream – in 5 minutes
This ice-cream should probably come with a warning or two. Firstly – this ice-cream is so gorgeous that you may find yourself making it far too often and eating far too much of it. Secondly – it’s not a quiet … Continue reading
Not-Quite Eton Mess
Eton mess – the story goes – was first eaten after a meringue pudding was crushed by a yellow labrador whilst on the way to a picnic at Eton sometime in the 19th century. The remains were salvaged and served … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts
Tagged puddings, strawberries, Super-quick meals
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All good things…
Haven’t the school holidays gone fast? There’s that glorious moment in the middle when you’ve forgotten all about school routine, are enjoying the seemingly endless days and feel that they will go on forever – and then it’s suddenly August … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly Menu Plan
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Two-for-One: Roast Pork Fillet with Herbs – and Pork, Feta and Pasta salad
It’s always great when you can manage to get more than one meal from one evenings cooking. These are both simple recipes that you can either make separately, or cook extra roast pork the first night so you can use … Continue reading
Posted in Cook Once - Eat Twice, Main Course, Two-for-one
Tagged leftovers, Pasta, pork, Salad
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Ham, Spring Onion and Cheese Quiche
This is a lovely recipe for using up leftover ham (and if you saw the post last week you will know that we have quite a lot of ham to use up!). The ham and spring onions seem to complement … Continue reading
Ham, Spring Onion and Cheese Quiche and A Weekly Menu Plan
Last week was a good week : fine weather – it’s lovely having the children home – and I found some great new recipes in the kitchen. Of course 50 years ago, it wasn’t such a good week for some … Continue reading
Two-for-One: Roast Honey Glazed Ham
OK – it’s not really roast dinner season at the moment – but when faced with large amounts of ham to cook (and you can of course eat cold ham in any season) I got out my recipes for Roast … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Cook Once - Eat Twice, Main Course, Two-for-one
Tagged ham
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Honey and Mustard Glazed Ham and a Budget Menu Plan
Does it sometimes feel as if the Credit Crunch has been going on forever? If your answer to that is (like mine) a resounding ‘YES’, it turns out that the reason we think that is – because it has. Yep, … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Weekly Menu Plan
Tagged ham, leftovers
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‘Simple Cakes’ and a Weekly menu plan
I have to say a BIG thank you to every one who commented last week and said how impressed they were with the cake my son made me for my birthday. He was so pleased with the results that he … Continue reading
Greek Pasta Salad
Maybe its the fact that we had MONTHS of rain without let up (it seemed) and it’s now time for change – or maybe its the fact that we went on holiday to a really hot sunny country (always a … Continue reading
