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Strong as Popeye
Popeye the sailor said it! “I’m strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach.” It’s been ages since I had spinach pie. It was another one of my childhood favourites, but I never endeavoured to make...
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Sour-chill-sation
It’s Sunday and I spent the morning on the phone, gossiping with girlfriends, catching up on all what’s nots. Conversations with me undoubtedly turn towards food at some point, and on a Sunday, the...
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Easy Curreee in a Hurreee
“Oh, come on, make me a curry…but I want it now…and I want it hearty and kinda healthy too…” Right…you sit there, my deary, feet up on the couch, dosing away to Pawn stars on Discovery, while I go...
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Tart Queen
Tarts are my new obsession! I’ve been stuck in the kitchen for the last 2 weeks filling pastry cases with an array of weird and wonderful savoury combinations and just can not get enough of trying new...
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Loving the easy life
I love going into a supermarket and finding new products that can make my life easier. Complete meals to cook yourself (great idea I say! All ingredients and spices are there for you in a nice neat...
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In split minds
It’s been miserable all day out today, Autumn has properly kicked in and I’m feeling just like the weather – grey and irritable. Can’t be bothered to go out and get wet. Can’t be bothered to even get...
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Spread me bacon…
Eeeeverybody and their aunty are raving about bacon these days – bacon ice cream, bacon cakes, bacon jam….I mean…anything that you wouldn’t expect having bacon in it is being thrown at us and we are...
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Just like grandma used to make it…
I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic lately. I guess it’s the “season’s blues” kicking in. I long for summer, for sun and heat, for the seaside….and instead I am stuck on this side of the hemisphere,...
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Porcini times
A trip to my favourite London Borough market took me 25 years back in time. Right at the south entrance I was met by the gorgeous sight of plump Porcini mushrooms. A whole basketful of them! I haven’t...
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Jammin’ it
I find myself ones again in Bulgaria for a spill. Fall is different over here. Warm and colourful. Temperature is still in the 20′s and promises to stay there for the next couple of weeks or so, which...
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That “White” chicken…
Hello Bulgaria….blimy, people can eat here! Every time I come back home, be it for a day, a week or a month, all I seem to do is eat…or go see people that eat (and join them, of course)….That did sound...
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Vegan ’till Christmas!
I’m well under pressure. In Bulgaria. Frozen. Pissed half the time…but well excited! I’m committing to vegan “time” all the way up to Christmas! Two reasons: First of all: Its a “Fast” period over...
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Nikulden (St Nichola’s Day)
In Bulgaria, as well as in a few other countries in Eastern Europe that share the same religion – Christian Orthodox, ”name days” are just as important as birthdays. You celebrate your name on the...
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Sweet treats
I found a pile of pumpkins, dumped by the front door today. My granddad must have brought the lot back from the allotment, although for the life of me I don’t remember seeing any pumpkin vines there in...
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Lollipops
The “fast” is well and truly over and after an indulging, 12 vegan dish Xmas dinner (the leftovers of which took over two days to conquer) I’m looking forward to a proper meat feast. I must have been...
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Winter love
When I think of winter food, the first thing that always pops into my head is a traditional Bulgarian dish made of pork belly and pickled cabbage. It is a sort of a stew that takes a couple of hours to...
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Gammon New Year!
Happy New Year to all! Feeling the excitement of a “new beginning”? Broke most of your NY resolutions yet? Cause all mine went to dust….already overloaded on junk food..6-fold (damn you, brand new,...
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Feeling the heat
Winter is at full swing in Scotland and I’m in need of some real heat. What better than a quick jump to Morocco? Well…symbolically…with a Tagine that is. I love getting curled up on the sofa with a...
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Shouldn’t work…kinda doesn’t, but it tastes soooo good!
I’ve been scratching my head for pretty much the whole of February what to use this month’s fave fruit – blood orange – in. I’ve got a kilo in my “decoration” basket (that’s my fruit and veg bowl :-))...
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Happy Pancake Day
Pancake day….Wonderful! I adore pancakes….can absolutely live on them! Sweet, savoury, plain, with butter, with fruit….all are a go! My fave are the thick, fluffy, “bubbly”, yeasty ones… My great gran...
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