Season 5 of the Great British Bake Off starts Wednesday 6th August! The entrants have been announced. There’s the wacky one: The older techie one: And the beardy one: But best of all, Mel & Sue will be there, plus Paul & Mary. Always a strangely-enchanting watch, even if you don’t care about cakes or bread. If this lot gets you inspired […]
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While I’m a self-confessed expert on the subject of potatoes, there’s another carbohydrate I’m fairly clueless on: noodles. I know about the dried egg ones from Sharwoods, the soft ones from Amoy, and I’m aware there’s such a thing as flat ribbon noodles, Udon (the chunky ones) and soba. Beyond that my knowledge is really sketchy. Enter noodle pro MiMi […]
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I love reading In Search of Heston’s recipes. United by our passion for all things Blumenthal-flavoured, he goes the whole hog in attempting to recreate Heston’s entire recipe index. And he really pushes the boat out to make them as accurately to the original text as possible. One of his recent posts was Heston’s fish pie. I’ve kind-of blogged about this […]
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It’s my biggest giveaway ever: win a fridge freezer! This Zanussi fridge freezer worth over £300 could be yours courtesy of Argos! As you would expect Argos have a massive range of Zanussi fridge freezers and this model is packed with all the essentials: three shelves in the fridge compartment and a slidey salad drawer, three drawers in the freezer and […]
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