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Clicking along with Allegra… (well, my mum did)

Posted in Recipes, Special events, tagged , , , , on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A bizarre phone call from my parents last night as they tried to find Allegra McEvedy on Twitter. It doesn’t look like she is on there, but @guardianfood is.
My mum had decided to have a go at the Guardian’s click-along with Allegra, so bought the ingredients and this was the result…
 
Sadly, I don’t live near enough [...]

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Cooking Christmas dinner for 18 people

Posted in General, Recipes, Special events, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on December 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This weekend, I did something I never thought I’d do. I cooked Christmas dinner for 18 people. I’m not going to lie to you – I got a lot of help (namely from co-head chef Rachel Defriez), we did chicken instead of turkey and I didn’t have to touch a potato peeler – but for [...]

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Can we eat chilli dogs post election night? Yes we can!

Posted in Recipes, Special events, tagged , , , , , , on November 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In response to Jude’s post below – on the fateful night that Obama got elected I was eating chilli dogs. These were a new thing for me – hotdogs with a topping of yet more meat in the form of chilli mince. Sounds kinda gross, right? Well it was lovely, as were all the [...]

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Election night food… what’s everyone eating?

Posted in Special events, tagged , , , on November 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Ok, shame-faced confession here: my dinner was smoked mackerel, a not particularly exciting salad, and pudding was chocolate raisins. So, for food satisfaction I’m living through the US based food bloggers.
Earlier today I started picking up a few tweets about what the US bloggers were preparing to eat tonight. Whereas us UK-ers will need either beer, coffee [...]

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