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Marvellous Marmalade: A Cure for the Winter Blues

March 7, 2011 By 3 Comments

Yes, I know I promised that I would blog about bread – and I have (in a way) – by posting Aunty O’Valerie’s Irish Soda Bread recipe as the Recipe of the Month. Which is soooo totally appropriate for March –  yes? Agreed, then. BUT. Just one thing. Before we get to blogging about bread [...]

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Here Come the Plums…

September 19, 2010 By 1 Comment

What is it about picking plums that makes my heart race? Their plump dusky blueness is like some kind of aphrodisiac to me… I even like the word. Plum. So round. So full. So complete in its plumminess. And they fit so neatly in the hand. Snug and perfect. I can totally see why ‘visions [...]

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Bring on the Dancing Blueberries

July 30, 2010 By 2 Comments

“Wow, look at them dance – the blueberries, can you see them?” This is a funny little memory of mine, one of the latter ones I have of my Dad, who having just woken up from one of a series of surgeries, displayed a very uncharacteristic child-like wonder at the anaesthetic-induced visions he was having.  This particular [...]

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