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Is It Too Early To Talk Christmas?

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Is it too early to talk Christmas? (It is November after all) For me, it is a little too early. I have a schedule of how things run this time of year. You may remember it from last year? Christmas planning, at Chez Wright, typically begins once we have attended the village's Remembrance Day parade. This is also around the time the Christmas chutney gets ...

Food Waste Friday / Meet Our New Addition

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It's Friday Guys - My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday! Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and ...

Food Waste Friday / The World’s Gone Baking Mad

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It's Friday Guys - My turn once more to host Food Waste Friday! Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and ...

Simple Slow Cooked Spicy Tomato Soup Recipe

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I've recently been given some homegrown tomatoes. For which I am exceedingly grateful. There were too many to eat with salad, they'd potentially go to waste, so the choice was chutney or soup. As I've been promised some more soon I went with soup. It's a little too early for Christmas chutney and I want to post an updated version here as part of my Simple ...

Slow Cooked Chicken With Sundried Tomatoes & Rice Recipe

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My all time favourite slow cooking recipe book is Ultimate Slow Cooker by Sara Lewis. I may have mentioned this before! As we head toward Autumn I can see the book being put to good use once more. In fact my slow cooker has been slaving away today. It's a recipe worth sharing. It is so simple and tasty with basic ingredients and very little preparation ...

No Waste Tastes Great /Make A Save With Soup

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It's Friday Guys - time for No Waste Tastes Great. Click here to learn more about my simple 2013 Friday routine. No Friday fridge this week. I'm not home. We're happy camping. So instead I thought I'd share my top tip for making a food-waste-save. Soup. So simple, and yet so effective. There's not much that can't be cooked and blended into a tasty soup ...

Simple Slow Cooked Broccoli & Stilton Soup Recipe

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This is one of my very favourite soups. Which is surprising, as I really do not like Stilton. One. Little. Bit. The worst part of this recipe, for me, is handling the cheese. I take a deep breath, dive in and work as quickly as I can. For some reason, Stilton works, even for those less keen, in soup. So, if you're a Stilton fan double bonus! Simple Slow ...