Cooking

Stu’s recipes part 1: Muesli / Granola

Stu's Recipe's Part 1: Muesli / Granola

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Our lovely Stuart has decided to let the world know his secret recipe for this tasty breakfast (or anytime of day) treat

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Rustic Inspiration & Summertime Gadgets

Cuisipro ice cream stack sandwich maker

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One of the most interesting and appealing episodes of MasterChef was episode 22 of Series 11, which featured two restaurants, with one featuring open flame Swedish cookery. It was filmed at the Ekstedt restaurant, which uses no gas or electricity… everything is cooked over birch wood flames.

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Grand Designs Live 2015 – The Highlights

Liebherr’s new ColourLine collection, www.liebherr.co.uk

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Earlier this month, Grand Designs Live returned to London’s ExCel and there was plenty to see within the KBB sector. It was a fantastic opportunity to view the latest appliances, kitchen furniture and worktop solutions up close and personal. Here are some of my favourites…

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Getting into the groove…

Robert Welch Cookbook stand with book

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New Year celebrations are but a dim and distant memory now, but with a new Bake Off for Comic Relief on TV, it seems as if nothing’s changed. The Great Comic Relief Bake Off starred some unlikely bakers, including Alexa Chung, Abby Clancy and Johnathan Ross… needless to say will undoubtedly be a riot, and […]

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Majestic Malteser Cake

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1. Crush the Maltesers and digestives. This is best achieved using excited children with a rolling pin. 2. Break up the cooking chocolate and melt with the margarine and syrup over heat. Mix continuously until it’s all melted. 3. Take off the heat and add the crushed digestives and Maltesers. For efficiency do this yourself, […]

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Christmas is coming…

Tesco hand decorated two-tier holly cake £20

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For writers and reviewers, Christmas starts in July, with a host of events to launch the festive season’s goodies. As always with seasonal celebrations, there’s a danger of peaking too soon and getting far too fed up with all the Christmas razzamatazz before the day itself even happens…

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