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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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Back to Earth – and a Weekly Menu Plan
Two weeks holiday was LOVELY!! I tried to post – I really did! – with all the delicious Italian food there was lots to tell you about – but I had a first generation iPad, a very slow internet connection … Continue reading
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Summer Travels and a Weekly Menu Plan
What are you doing this week? Apparently 9 years ago today (1st July 2004) NASA sent a 3.3 billion dollar space probe into space – well, actually they’d first sent it out 6 years before this – but on this … Continue reading
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Two-for-One: Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia and Homemade Pizza bases
Click on the headings to see the choices! This is one of those great recipes where you can cook double and have the basis for two different meals. Just my kind of recipe! Make some extra bread dough and you … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Cook Once - Eat Twice, Freezing, Two-for-one
Tagged bread, freezing, Make Ahead, pizza
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Empty-the-freezer week and a weekly menu plan
What do you keep in your freezer? I’ve been rummaging through ours over the weekend as we’re off on holiday soon and need to finish things up. I have left this far too long! – there are lots of single … Continue reading
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Cinnamon Rolls
You really NEED to make these – yes, you do – because these cinnamon rolls are to die for. Ok – maybe that is overstating it slightly – but they are SO GOOD that once you’ve tasted their soft, spicy, … Continue reading
£25 Weekly Menu Plan for five weekday meals
Do you like watching cooking programmes on TV? You may remember a programme called ‘Economy Gastronomy’ which was on (in the UK) a few years ago. It was a series which looked at ‘ordinary’ people who were spending too much … Continue reading
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Weekly menu plan
If it’s true that time seems to go faster as you get older then I must be about 102. I mean – where did last week go? At least the weather has cheered up – we have now had the … Continue reading
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Salmon with orange and watercress sauce
Salmon fillet is one of those foods that we all turn to for summer entertaining. Or – particularly when its on offer in the shops, as it is now – for quick suppers at home. This is a really quick, … Continue reading
Posted in Main Course, Quick Meals
Tagged fish, Salmon, Super-quick meals, watercress
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Grilled Peaches with Raspberry Sauce
Finally! I’ve been meaning to make these peaches for a couple of weeks now, but somehow not quite managing to. Which is a shame as it’s a really quick simple recipe which everyone loves – even my children who aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts, Quick Meals
Tagged peaches, raspberries, yoghurt
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