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Belated mothers day

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

We just ate a delicious feast cooked by my dad for a late mothers day lunch. As we were in Birmingham last weekend we delayed it a week.

I made my first baked cheesecake for the event… Behold, chocolate cheesecake!

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Burton Albion v Torquay united

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

0-2 so far. Come on Torquay. I think that’s who we should be supporting…

UPDATE: finished 4-1 to mighty Torquay. Good game. Fine curling finish for the third right in front of us.

Good to see a match from the ground and the Torquay fans were in full voice.

In a pub now for the rugby which looks like it could have been someone’s house just last week. Or maybe in the 50′s anyway, complete with outside toilet.

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Before and after shots of my bird

Monday, February 27th, 2012

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We had a great roast chicken yesterday. It was Spanish style courtesy of the Jamie Oliver “dinners” book.

A couple of boiling hot and stabbed lemons lovingly inserted into its cavity along with lots of chorizo around the outside. Flavoursome.

Blueberry cake

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

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I have made this cake a few times now and can highly recommend it. Since it contains 3 punnets of blueberries it must be good for you too…

I stuck fairly rigidly to the recipe from the BBC below but use 2 punnets for the cake and one on top. Also, if you dust the blueberries for inside the cake in a bit of flour after washing them that should stop them all sinking to the bottom.

A magimix makes this cake a breeze to make. :)

CAKE.

Culinary bargain

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

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Years of trailing around hundreds of charity shops finally paid off yesterday.

In the British Heart Foundation in Durham there was the above set of le creuset cast iron pans hidden away.

It was quite a mission to carry them back to the car and one of the 6 plastic bags gave way but it was worth the effort.

We just had a very nice lunch at the Udberg senior household. I have finally gave in and updated our website with this post after a long absence from the site after much pestering…