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Easy peasy brunch: baked eggs with cheese Happy New Year everyone! Yes it’s 8 days in but we have all been chilling out and getting back into the swing of normal life after a few weeks of over-eating and drinking. So this morning (possibly afternoon…) Doug and I wanted a very very easy brunch. Preferably one that would use up items we [...]
DtS 2011 roundup As this year draws to a close and 2012 is about to begin we thought we’d give you a quick roundup of the past year here!
Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread) This month, for the Secret Recipe Club, we were lucky enough to be assigned Bewitching Kitchen. This is a bit of international food blogger love, because the author of Bewitching Kitchen was born and raised in Sao Paolo, Brazil. So we were pretty excited to try our hands at some Brazilian recipes! I’d been meaning [...]
Gift Week: Other home-made gift options Obviously December is not the only month where we’re allowed to enjoy cookies. So here is a round-up of tasty homemade gift ideas we’ve posted, in case you need any more inspiration! Brownies are always a favourite with the sweet obsessed (by which we mean us). Lucy will be making a few trays of cheesecake topped chocolate [...]
Gift Week: Cajun Spice Mix Now this is a nice and easy edible present. Also one that will last longer than cakes and brownies and will hopefully be used in many meals to come! Nearly two years ago at my mother’s birthday dinner I had a lovely Cajun Chicken Salad. Once I had demolished the plate in an obscenely short amount [...]
Recent Recipes
Almond Poppy Seed Bread
Comments (6) | November 28, 2011
This month with the Secret Recipe Club, we’re lucky to be assigned The Gingered Whisk! This is clearly a gal after my heart: she has a category for recipes with alcohol in them. Win. But I decided to be very brave and not go for a booze-filled recipe. When I read the description of the [...]
Sausage Casserole and Dumplings
Comments (0) | November 22, 2011
Winter is here and I am craving warm and tasty comfort food right now. The ‘to cook’ list on my fridge currently reads tomato soup, chili, toad in the hole and curried lentils. Are you noticing a hearty winter theme? My freezer is starting to fill up with all the extra portions you get when [...]
Soft Pretzels
Comments (0) | November 12, 2011
Things are ramping up for the Holiday season. We Yanks have Thanksgiving in two weeks, and I’m hosting my family this year, so that should be an adventure. But that’s stress for another day. This weekend Seattle is headed into crappy weather. The kind of weather you hunker down during: It’s all couch time, all [...]
Thai Chicken Pizza
Comments (10) | October 31, 2011
This is our first time participating in The Secret Recipe Club - different food bloggers are assigned each other’s blogs, we try out each others recipes and then all post on the same day. This month we were assigned Anne Jisca’s Healthy Pursuits. You can probably tell from the name of our blog that neither Shannon or [...]
Cheesecake topped chocolate brownies
Comments (3) | October 23, 2011
We spent last weekend with Doug’s sister and her husband who brought their beautiful four month old daughter to visit. They also brought us a a 1kg bag of dark chocolate buttons. Have you ever seen a kilo of chocolate buttons? It looks a little something like this:
Roasted Leeks and Apples
Comments (2) | October 17, 2011
So, it will probably surprise no one that reads this (hi mom): Lucy and I are big nerds. And, aside from food, one of the things we like to geek out about is Greco-Roman nerdery. We both took a lot of classes on the stuff, and have done a lot of reading. So now that [...]
Salmorejo
Comments (0) | October 07, 2011
Another Spanish recipe for you all today. Can I recommend Spain as a holiday destination for anyone who is looking to eat and eat and eat while they’re away? That’s what we did while we were there. In fancy restaurants, in roadside cafes, in tiny bars in the middle of Seville and on the patio [...]
Saffron Albondigas
Comments (0) | September 30, 2011
During my visit to the UK, Lucy was fresh off a holiday as well. She had just come back from Spain, and was waxing poetic about all the wonderful food. So, considering the dreich weather, we decided to try to bring a little Spanish sunshine back to Edinburgh, in the form of tapas. And adding saffron: [...]
Chilli Beef and Lime Noodle Salad
Comments (0) | September 20, 2011
I found myself with too many limes last week. I had bought plenty when my mother came to visit in anticipation of many cocktails and G&T’s but between going out a lot, antibiotics and having to go to work the next day this didn’t really come to pass. So instead I ended up looking [...]
Double the Sugar Con 11 – Raspberry Tart
Comments (0) | September 10, 2011
Things have been a little quiet around the blog lately, but for very good reason. For the first time EVER, Shannon and Lucy cooked together. While we met in Edinburgh, and bonded over food at Cadbury World, we hadn’t really started cooking until after Shannon moved back to the States. And with life getting in [...]
