22 Thursday Mar 2012
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26th September 2011
Well, didn’t I get spoilt rotten for my 26th!?
My very kitchen-centric birthday goodies included…
-Rococo chocolate tempering classes
-Cook’s blowtorch
-Simon Hopkinson’s ‘The Good Cook’
-‘The Vintage Tea Party Book’ by Angel Adoree
-The Ottolenghi cookbook
-‘How to make your own drinks’ by Susy Atkins
I’ll keep you posted on what creations these presents have inspired!
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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23rd September 2011
Simple BBQ lobster tails with butter and lemon.
Waitrose lobster (underside of shell removed) grilled for around 7 mins over a high heat. A perfect example of good ingredients needing the least amount of fiddling to produce an extraordinary flavour.
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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23rd September 2011
Another photo of the Boy’s birthday -a picnic feast that included a fresh Spanish tortilla, cheeseboard, grilled lobster, chicken caesar salad, zimabwean coleslaw, seafood tians and lots of champagne!
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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23rd September 2011
Looking forward to my birthday tomorrow!Here’s a photo of Nigella’s worryingly addictive chocolate cherry cupcakes that I made for the Boy’s birthday last month…
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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22nd September 2011
Just returned home after a fairly eventful night at the hospital (mysterious abdominal pain). We popped in to Windsor Farm Shop on the way back to buy some fresh bread and I collected those butchery bits that I had ordered earlier.
I doubt there’s much that is more surreal than picking up a bag of curly pig tails whilst in a woolly post-hospital morphine haze!
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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21st September 2011
Ah, The Great British Bake Off, telly heaven!
I’ve got myself into a little routine of baking a treat and making some tea in preparation for each episode.
Yesterday I made dark chocolate cake pops (scruffy since I was in a hurry not to miss the beginning). These were a vast improvement on the chocolate Guinness cake from last week which was delicious but somewhat large for a lone eater!
22 Thursday Mar 2012
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21st September 2011
The newest addition to the kitchen library. Marrow bones, pigs cheeks and curly tails ordered from Windsor Farm Shop this morning (much to the bemusement of the teenage trainee butcher).
Watch this space (or, if you’re feeling squeamish, look away now..!)
20 Tuesday Mar 2012
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Or maybe it’s time to try the Fat Duck whisky gums, Heston’s take on good old-fashioned wine gums. A slightly buggered recipe can be found here:
http://charlottejulienne.blogspot.com/2011/01/dewars-whisky-gums.html
Here’s another blogger’s attempt at the whisky gums.
http://thebigfatundertaking.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/21-whiskey-gums-restaurant-ivy/
-I love the premise of this blog, it helps to make Heston’s recipes a little less daunting. I only wish I’d thought of it first!
20 Tuesday Mar 2012
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Having already written about my amateur cooking and eating habits on Facebook I have decided to branch out to the next level -a real, grown-up blog.
Facebook is a fantastic tool for putting your ramblings out there for friends and family, especially with it’s potential for interactivity. However, it is also frequently changing and users have little control over what is happening to the material they’ve input. So… hello WordPress, here I am! Admittedly I’m hopelessly confused about how to use the site but I’m sure it’s easy enough to pick up soon!
My first job will be to move my Facebook posts to this site. I wont be leaving the site, instead I will run both simultaneously. If you are a Facebook user, please consider joining my (very) small band of ‘likers’, I’m very proud of those guys!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Diary-of-a-Greedy-Girl/150420391717347
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