Pistachio ice cream for National Ice Cream Month

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Pistachio ice cream for National Ice Cream Month

This is my favourite pistachio ice cream, just in time for National Ice Cream Month This weekend sees the end of National Ice Cream month. Quite possibly my favourite month of the year, I am sure you will agree. We have just come back from a week in Italy where we consumed our own body weight in ice cream over the six days, in fact on one day Jonnie

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Reasons to love Thermomix: the demo

Thermomix Demo RTFM You’ve heard that expression, right? Read the f*^”ing manual. Something many of us never do, do we? If we are honest. Who ever gets beyond the first page of a manual that falls out of the box our lastest shiny toy arrives in? I read “Congratulations on the purchase of your ….” and then bin it. Turn to the shiny shiny thing declaring I don’t need the

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75 Reasons to love Thermomix, part 5: Crunchie squares

If you love Crunchies then you will LOVE these Crunchie Squares which are simple to make in a Thermomix. One of the 75 reasons I love it! I don’t know, you wait your whole week for a Thermomix recipe from me and then two come along at once. Or maybe you haven’t been waiting all week and this has just come as a pleasant surprise. Suffice to say

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Setley Ridge Vineyard

Twenty something years ago my parents decided to up sticks and move to France. They bought a vineyard and beat the French at their own game. Within a couple of years they had rebuilt the pretty much derelict Chateau, won awards and turned around a failing business selling wine to the local co-operative into a business making 80,000 bottles a year, some of them stocked in Waitrose. I swear the

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Maneesh recipe

In my defence I had been awake for 37 hours when I made this purchase. And in the three days prior to that point I had only had about 14 hours sleep. So when I saw the silver bag in the foodie shop at Duty Free in Amman airport I could be forgiven for thinking it was coffee, right? It even had a lady on the front of the packet

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The only banana cake recipe you will ever need

The only banana cake recipe you will ever need Lots happened this week. One was that I bought a new bread maker. The other was that four bananas started to look past their best. A happy coincidence that I decided to do something about. Baking is my new happy thing to do. The results are still a bit iffy on some things but putting some ingredients in

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Dinner Restaurant — A review

Dinner Restaurant Most nights one of our Sage Appliances helps me put vaguely edible food on the table. I like to think that Heston (who helps design the range) is in my kitchen, helping make cooking a bit more of an experience than it really is. Though he does always seem to leave me with the washing up. So when we were invited out for lunch by Tim and

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Chicken Kabseh/Kabsa Recipe

Chicken Kabseh, or Kabsa, is a new recipe to me but one I wanted to try and make at home as soon as I got back from a recent trip to Jordan. One of the great things about travel is discovering different foods. I love mooching round supermarkets in whichever foreign city I am in to see what local delights they have, and what imports we might recognise. On my

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Secrets from Yiayia’s Greek Kitchen — Book Review

. The Secrets from Yiayia’s Greek Kitchen: Meze, Soups and Dips is a book I have been eager to get my hands since I first heard about it earlier this year. In May in fact, my lovely friend Sarah mentioned she was working on it. And then I promptly forgot about it, I am ashamed to say. Until last month when over dinner in Devon Sarah mentioned it again. That

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Beaujolais Nouveau Day

. The third Thursday of November is known as Beaujolais Nouveau day. Started over 100 years ago it was seen by wine producers as a way to get rid of large quantities of wine and to get some cash in before the end of the year. And was a way to celebrate the end of another year’s harvest. In the 1970s this turned into a race to see

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Pressure cooker baked cheesecake

Pressure cooker baked cheesecake. I am a huge fan of baked cheesecake, the crunchy base mixed with the smooth topping is a combination I love. Add to that the tartness of some lemon, and some berries on the side and I am in pudding heaven. Matched only maybe by a warm chocolate brownie and a dollop of ice cream. For a dinner party on Saturday night I decided to do

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Pressure Cooker Beer Can Chicken

Pressure cooker beer can chicken I hear you say. Has she gone mad? Nope I haven’t gone mad, this really does work. If you follow me on social media it won’t have escaped your attention that for the last few weeks there has been a new weapon in my kitchen arsenal: a pressure cooker. Known as the Fast Slow Pro it is made by Sage Appliances and retails at

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