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Vegetables and Cheesy “Biscuits”
So… Happy Thanksgiving! Now I live over here I guess I need to embrace these things, We’re planning a Facetime date watching the parade with our friend Ashlei, and I made some croissants! It’s the simple Edd Kimber version of Croissant dough like I used for the Cronuts, and I made them for the first […]

Spaghetti Squash Bake
Last weekend when my friends were visiting, My friend Rivka and I went to our local greengrocers (Dig in), and she bought a Spaghetti Squash. I had never heard of such a thing, but later on in the week after she posted about hers, and Dig in posted a link about them on Facebook, I […]

An Indian Burrito: Chapati filled with curry and rice.
Last weekend when my Mum was here, I took the opportunity to try out a couple of recipes from a fairly new book that I hadn’t quite got around to trying yet. The book is Prashad by Kaushy Patel, and it was another book that The Book People had brought into work. I wasn’t planning […]

Isa’s Quinoa Puttanesca
An unfortunate side effect of a 3 and a half week holiday is, well…… not doing any of the walking, or metafit, or anything I usually do, consuming more than even my usual amount of doughnuts, icecream, and other goodies….. my jeans are now somewhat tight. Erk. This is not only a “low calorie”, healthy […]

Cheesey Vegetable Pie
Some of the gifts on my wishlist for Christmas were some Alan Silverwood pans. They are great, really easy to clean (but NOT Dishwasher safe), and really non-stick. One of them was a 4in Pork Pie tin, which I hadn’t used yet. Time to rectify that: Cheesey Vegetable Pie Recipe (Modified from Paul Hollywood’s Hand-raised […]

Anjum Anand’s Paneer Koftas and Shiitake Mushroom Curry
So, on Friday I posted about making Paneer, but then said nothing else about it. Well, yesterday was busy. I spent quite a lot of the day preparing for having people round for dinner, I made some Naan breads: ……they were good, should have had 6 of them, but alas we had a little whoopsie […]

Gnocchi with a Cheesy Peasy Smoked Paprika Sauce
I have been lucky this week. It has been a week of tasty delights so far: Day 1 Lunch: Leftover Beetroot Risotto Day 1 Evening: Easy Cheesy Lentils from Rose Elliot (with added Peas and carrots otherwise I find it’s a little too much) Day 2 Lunch: Mothership Tuesday at Pieminister! Pie, Mash, Minted Peas, […]