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Beef and spinach curry with spring onion cakes

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My new thing is cookbooks. I’m a 23 year old girl and I’d rather sit at home reading a good cookbook and cook a delicious meal than go out clubbing. Am I old before me years?! I don’t care – I’ve had my fair share of ‘fun’ over the years and now I just love devouring a delectable book page by page, picking out recipes that I want to recreate. So I was a VERY happy bunny when Stephanie Alexander’s ‘Kitchen Garden Companion’ landed on my doormat. I do have a garden, although it doesn’t get much sunlight. In fact, it pretty much doesn’t get ANY sunlight due to the massive (albeit beautiful) trees surrounding. The best I have is a (sort of) ‘roof terrace’. What I really mean when I say ‘roof terrace’ is a flat gravelled roof that we occasionally use for sunbathing in the summer. We are just in the process of refurbing an old bedroom and making it into a kitchen and the ‘roof terrace’ is accessible through that kitchen widow. …

White and Milk Malteser cake

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I ran a Macmillan coffee morning at my work on Friday. We ran it last year and Mitzy Wilson, ex editor of Delicious Magazine came into the office to judge the winner. It was such a lovely morning – everyone brought in their cake and paid £2 to enter. The overall winner won a bottle of Laurent Perrier Champagne and she was absolutely thrilled as she didn’t consider herself as much of a baker. So, when the information pack landed on my desk this year, I decided that it would be good to do it again, especially since most of the people in the office now weren’t around this time last year. I have met Sig from Scandilicious a couple of times and I am a massive fan of her blog – so I asked if she would be willing to come in and judge. To my delight she wanted to come in. We had a total of 13 entries and I baked a Maltesers cake. My inspiration came from Poires au Chocolat, who just …

American pancakes with blueberries and maple syrup

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We’re having a heatwave at the moment. I can’t remember the last time we had so many scorching days and balmy evenings and I don’t know about you but the heat really takes it out of me. On days like this I dream of being sat by a cool swimming pool or lying on a beach listening to the waves lap up on the shore. But the reality is, I’m stuck in a clammy city with no air conditioning and the closest I get to that beach is the dirty, grotty Thames or a lido full to the brim with excited pasty (and lobster red) Brits. This weather calls for some energy food so I opted for American pancakes with blueberries and maple syrup this morning. I used a recipe by Louisa Carter. Check out her food photography, it’s pretty tasty. Ingredients 135g plain flour 2 tbsp golden caster sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 130ml milk 1 egg, lightly beaten 2 tbsp melted butter lashings of maple syrup handful of juicy blueberries …

Bluberry and Pecan Granola Bars

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Fed up with the usual boring bowl of milky cereal for breakfast? I am. I’ve been having a lot of porridge recently and it’s quite often ended up dry and yukky. It’s not the best to eat and certainly not the best to look at sitting on your desk half eaten. Bluberry and Pecan Granola Bars, originally uploaded by Food For Think. I’m not overly fond of pre packaged cereal bars because one just doesn’t satisfy me and if I eat two I feel like little miss piggy. So… I decided to make my very own granola bars using a few left overs from another baking sesh. They take hardly any time to make, are delicious and full you up until your stomach groans to tell you it’s hungry again at lunch time. Ingredients 100g butter 200g porridge oats (I like Jordan’s) 100g sunflower seeds 50g sesame seeds 50g chopped pecans 3 tbsp runny honey 100g unrefined light muscovado sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon 100g dried blueberries Method 1. Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. …

Cod wrapped in Parma Ham with Asparagus tips and Watercress salad

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Cod and parma ham go so well together. Plate it up alongside a few asparagus tips and a watercres salad and you’ve got a healthy albeit tasty meal. This one also goes into the quick and easy category – it took about 20 minutes from start to finish. You can bake the cod if you like but it takes longer and I prefer to pan fry in olive oil. Cod wrapped in Parma Ham with Asparagus and Watercress Salad, originally uploaded by Food For Think. Ingredients 2 Cod fillets 4 slices of Parma Ham 12 Asparagus tips handful of watercress 4 small vine tomatoes 2 spring onions glug of olive oil Method 1. Prepare the salad by chopping the spring onions and tomatoes and place into a salad bowl. Toss with salt, pepper and olive oil 2. Sprinkle the cod with black pepper and wrap two slices of parma ham around each fillet and hold together with four cocktail sticks 3. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in the pan and fry for 1 1/2 …