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Prawn and Mushroom Linguine

I love prawns. I love mushrooms. I love garlic. Put them together with my favourite carb, and you have a meal I could eat from dawn ’til dusk. I might have put a wee extra clove of garlic in that the recipe below states, but I do love my garlic. So, if you can handle…

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This Sunday is World Baking Day!

This Sunday, May 19th, is an auspicious day for all home bakers – it’s World Baking Day! The campaign started last year, and I shall be baking something myself this year. Last year’s event kickstarted a hashtag on twitter, #caking. The idea was that you baked a cake, placed it somewhere interesting and tweeted a…

Guest Post: Quorn Mince Bolognese

This guest post is from Tony Lane, he of Tony’s Thoughts, geek, book reviewer, and all-round nice guy. For a nice change, here is a vegetarian recipe. ~ ~ ~ ~ I’m going to start this by saying that I’m not a vegetarian/vegan/pescetarian and nor do I have any plans to be. My wife on…

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Review: John Whaite Bakes

Anyone who watched last year’s Great British Bake Off on BBC2 will be familiar with John Whaite. Born in Manchester, John actually completed the final year of this law degree while filming GBBO, then went on to win the competition. His passion for baking is evident on each page of this book. I think this…

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Zebra Cake

My sister is visiting this week and it is her birthday on Sunday. As a gift, I took her to get her first tattoo. I had to make a cake too. C’mon… I have been looking for an excuse to make this cake for ages. With the zebra cake, the humble marble cake gets a…

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BBQ Beef Burgers with Candied Bacon and Crispy Onion

Inspired by the Wicked Good Burger book I reviewed this weekend, I decided to rustle up burgers for dinner. I didn’t follow one of the recipes from the book, but made my own. I took some lean minced beef, and added some of 14 Spice Dry Rub as flavouring. I accompanied that with some candied…