August 03, 2024
A handy recipe to dip into when you want to express your love. It could be a birthday or Valentine's, or just to brighten up someone's day.
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July 27, 2024
Michael planted more herbs on our roof garden and the basil went wild. Harvesting for the salon Deli and giving to friends still left a verdant surplus. Hence my recipe this week which made a small dent in supplies.
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June 30, 2024
This Mexican milk cake is popular through Latin America and from the Mexican influence into North America too. The light fluffy sponge cake is soaked in three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk, and whole milk, hence the name tres leches, and topped with whipped cream and strawberries.
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June 15, 2024
We picked up a packet of these delicious crunchy biscuits from one of the foodie shops in the lanes around the Trevi Fountain. Ciambelle al Vino are lightly infused with wine and coated with sugar crystals. This recipe from Rome is one of the easiest and uses very few ingredients.
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June 08, 2024
At our recent trip to RAKxa Medispa in Thailand I was really taken by the whole food offering. This recipe was for their coconut yoghurt which goes perfectly in a healthy breakfast of seeds, grains and berries.
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June 01, 2024
I've been writing about our visit to the Rakxa Medispa in Thailand and I will delve deeper into the amazing dining there in later issues, but essentially, eat more delicious food and get leaner! I picked up some recipes. This cookie looks simple but tastes delicious and is pretty healthy for a biscuit.
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May 25, 2024
Of course this requires no baking but it's quick to prepare and makes a juicy presentation after a summer dinner. The more guests you have the higher the tiers can go.
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May 17, 2024
I've never skied in 23⁰ C sunshine before. That's how it was in April this year with beautiful snow below and beating sun above. Gorgeous. It would be far more romantic to say the melting ice cap revealed a centuries old collection of lost
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May 17, 2024
Occasionally I step out of my lane into savoury, though I doubt Greggs will be quaking with their 2.5 million sales a week. These freshly made sausage rolls with puff pastry and artisanal fillings make for a more delicious treat than mass produced and packaged versions.
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May 10, 2024
I don’t remember energy bars as a kid. I remember Marathon bars (now Snickers) and probably the prelude to our more ‘virtuous’ energy snacks. But many of these ‘natural, organic, artisan’ treats nowadays can have more sugar than a Snickers bar, which has the equivalent of seven teaspoons across sugar, corn syrup and lactose
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May 03, 2024
Size isn't everything, but going large on these cookies does make for an eye-popping treat that's great for sharing. The biscuity outer with the squidgy centre gives a good blend of textures with a gentle sweetness from the light brown sugar.
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