Category: Recipes
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Rosemary Chicken Bake with vegetables
AD-This is a sponsored post In these uncertain times using up stock cupboard ingredients has never been more important. We have been urged to shop only for the essentials, but still want tasty home-cooked food that is nourishing for all the family. We were approached by Aldi to create a go-to recipe to celebrate Stop…
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Carrot Cake Cookie Recipe
One of the must have snacks at Walt Disney World has always been the Carrot Cake Cookie from the Writers Stop. If I’m totally honest there is a list of about 20 must haves, but this one is doable at home. The recipe for the Carrot Cake Cookie revolves around your favourite Carrot Cake mix.…
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English Pancake Recipe
Pancake day was last week and you could say that I’ve timed this wrong. However I don’t feel that Pancakes should be limited to one day a year. In fact our kids have been asking for them for over a month now. Usually we cook the Ultimate American Pancakes, but this time around we chose…
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Easy Chocolate Souffle Recipe
With Valentines Day not too far away, here is an easy Chocolate Souffle recipe that will definitely win some brownie points. I have made this recipe about 6 times now. To prove how easy it was I got Abigail our 5 year old to help cook it / mix it. This recipe will make 4…
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Hawaiian Pork Skewers with A Sag Aloo side
After doing the weekly shop, I spotted a bargain in a Pork Fillet. It is a great piece of meat to start with and I’m often surprised at it’s price. I wanted to do something different with it. I spotted an idea for a barbecue item, but in the middle of January we grilled it…
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Chicken and Bacon Tagliatelle Recipe
After all the in depth cooking of Christmas, here is a Quick and Easy Recipe with ingredients you may already have in stock. Bacon and Chicken is a great combination as the two meats flavour combine really well. Also Chicken and Bacon are relatively cheap to purchase. I believe that I cooked this meal with around…
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Crab Rangoon Recipe
We recently invited Samantha and Steve Rickleton and Chloe and Simon McGuirk over for cocktails and nibbles. The idea was to have a few themed cocktails and ideally some connected nibbles. My theme was Disney, but mainly the Disney World resort Hotels official cocktails and food. Then a Crab Rangoon recipe caught my eye. Just…
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A very Fruity Christmas Cake – Part 1
For the past 6 years I’ve been baking our own Christmas cakes. I chose a random recipe and it was so fruity I felt it was miles better than any shop bought effort. With the amount of fruit in it it isn’t cheap, but then again, Christmas isn’t cheap! Ingredients 1.5kg of mixed fruit (sultanas,…
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Duck Leg and Red Currant and Wine Sauce
After a disastrous trip to the meat shop, I was forced to drag myself to Tesco. We really fancied Duck with come form of sauce and it was my challenge for the Saturday night. We weren’t falling for the trip our kids pulled last time either. “I don’t want any I don’t like it” followed…
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala is one of our favourite meals. It is amazing how many different varieties of the same dish there are. When we’ve ordered Chicken Tikka Masala from the takeaway, it can come come spicy, sweet or a little bland. So we’ve hunted out this recipe of the dish to become our favourite version. Bizarrely…