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The Short (Dis)Order(ed) Cook
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An update of sorts.
An update of sorts.
It’s been a few weeks. More than a few weeks.
I’m not dead! I’m just very tired from work and need to take a lot more time for myself than I thought. As it turns out, I’m still going through some things after thinking that I was ready to throw myself back into food blogging.
Since my last post, I’ve not really had the chance (read: energy or low enough pain levels) to expend my energy taking…
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An ambitious project.
Am I back?
Sort of. This week was meant to be me learning how to make bao and filling it with delicious spicy vegetables, but to say it’s been a bad time on the pain front is a gross understatement. I’m getting fairly good at having a quick grumble and then trying to find a distraction from it, but there’s been no easy way to distract from it for the last couple of months. I’ve missed friends’…
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Still taking a break!
Still taking a break!
Contrary to my assumptions, January is looking more busy and a bit more stressful than I initially thought it would be. As a result, I’ve decided that the best thing I can do for myself is take some of the pressure off and give myself a break from posting until the start of February, and get my head (and hopefully my life) together a little bit more.
The first weekend of February (the 6th if I…
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The looming year.
The first post of the new year. It’s been a struggle to feel enthusiastic about the next 360+ days, but it is a hopeful one.
By December each year, I am normally READY for the holidays. I’m full of all the wintery holiday spirit, and looking forward to looking at the pretty lights, burying myself in my coat in the cold wind and the rain, and already craving the sweet (and savoury) treats that…
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A wintery treat on Boxing Day: Ginger & Cranberry Cupcakes
A wintery treat on Boxing Day: Ginger & Cranberry Cupcakes
(Originally published in The Guernsey Press on 20/11/2021)
It’s the winter holiday period!
Well, I say it’s the winter holiday period. I’ve somehow been hearing Christmas songs since as early as October—please don’t ask how Mariah Carey ended up on the Halloween playlist—and I was seeing ads for Christmas while I was still dying from the summer heat in August. I’m now pretty certain it should…
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Thinking about next year: Things To Expect!
Thinking about next year: Things To Expect!
A short post before the winter holiday today! As I’ve had a bit of a hectic weekend, I’ve been preparing more for next year than I have been thinking about food, particularly as my dinner the other night was a takeaway that left leftovers for at least two more meals. So, as it’s going to be a busy week of wrapping presents and working, I thought I’d take this post to try and make a little list of…
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I forgot how good spinach tastes with garlic: Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni
I forgot how good spinach tastes with garlic: Spinach & Ricotta Cannelloni
This post is being done in an extra rush this week. It’s not been that busy of a week; I saw some friends perform in Panto, went on the hunt for vegetarian low-alcohol wines because Alliance was completely out of McGuigan, and played *mumble mumble weird noise* hours of Pokemon and got pummelled by Cynthia post-Elite Four.
However, the afternoons and evenings I usually have reserved for making…
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Cheating isn't always bad: (Mostly) Homemade Pasties
Cheating isn’t always bad: (Mostly) Homemade Pasties
Although I really shouldn’t be eating as much of them as I do, with starting a new job and spending my evenings doing creative things, I have to confess.
I’ve not been making my own lunches and breakfasts for at work.
My recent breakfasts have been to nip down to one of the sandwich shops on my way to work and buy a cheese and onion pasty for something warm to get my day started. While…
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More mushrooms, more ranting: Mushroom Chasseur
More mushrooms, more ranting: Mushroom Chasseur
(Originally published in The Guernsey Press on 20/11/2021)
I’ve been falling back in love with mushrooms as of late. Maybe it’s because the weather is becoming more cold and damp again.
For a while, I got desperately bored of them. It wasn’t that I’d stopped liking the taste. It’s just they’re so often used as a bit of a crutch for serving vegetarian and vegan folk food when the person…
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A Few Favourites!
I thought I’d give another quick break from posting recipes to make a post about some of my current favourite food and drink things.
Besides having had a busy week and weekend, I’ve also spent much of my free time playing Pokemon Brilliant Diamond since it came out on Friday. Probably more than I should have with the hours that I’ve had free but for some reason, gaming and writing have been the…
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Relief.
It’s been a funny week. Not funny ha-ha, but funny as in unexpected.
I finally got to take the little staycation I’ve been putting off since the start of the year, which was awesome. Two nights in a hotel, locking out the rest of the world with reading material, movies, a careful dip in the swimming pool, and curling up in a blanket on the balcony with a cup of hot chocolate. It was two days of…
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Mushrooms. Mushrooms Everywhere. Mushroom Cream Sauce
Mushrooms. Mushrooms Everywhere. Mushroom Cream Sauce
After so long of having my only restaurant dinner option be a mushroom risotto (which is usually still somehow made with a non-vegetarian hard cheese because of the differences in perception of what ‘vegetarian’ means in different places) I should be sick of the sight of mushrooms. I should hate them. I should see a punnet of them and want to throw them halfway down the veggie aisles at Waitrose…
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I got published in the local newspaper! Homemade Vegetable Stock & Vegetable Stew
I got published in the local newspaper! Homemade Vegetable Stock & Vegetable Stew
(Originally published in The Guernsey Press on 23/10/2021)
With autumn poking its head out (at long last) we all start turning to our hearty favourites in an effort to stay warm. For me, it could be anything from a homemade roasted tomato soup and fresh bread to a spicy vegetable stew—the recipe for which my friend gave to me—that has been sitting in the slow-cooker all day while I’ve been…
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Comfort food to recover with: 'Meaty' Vegetarian Lasagne
Comfort food to recover with: ‘Meaty’ Vegetarian Lasagne
Finally, after many months of not doing this recipe, I’m finally going to be making my take on a ‘meaty’ vegetarian lasagne.
Do you know why it’s taken me this long to get around to it? For several years, vegetable lasagne was the one vegetarian meal that I could get while I was out somewhere. If it wasn’t a mushroom risotto, it was a vegetarian lasagne. After being fed about twelve different…
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Literally adding some spice to the mix: Pumpkin Spice (My Take)
Literally adding some spice to the mix: Pumpkin Spice (My Take)
I’ve mentioned it a lot on this blog, but I am definitely ready for winter now. Yes, it means I’ll get a few more aches and pains. Yes, it means I have to always have a pair of gloves on me. And yes, it does mean I will feel like I’m turning into an icicle when I ride my motorcycle in the rain.
I’m looking forward to every chilly, waterlogged minute of it.
When I get off said motorcycle and get…
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A short, non-commercial break!
A short, non-commercial break!
There isn’t going to be a recipe this week, but there’s a reason for that! It’s taking a little bit of prep-work, and I can’t quite say the reason yet, but all should (hopefully) become clear in the next couple of weeks!
See you soon!
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October is here now, therefore it is effectively Halloween now: Rose, White Chocolate & Strawberry Sandwich Biscuits
October is here now, therefore it is effectively Halloween now: Rose, White Chocolate & Strawberry Sandwich Biscuits
I finally got around to digging through some of the recipes and resources that I’ve been hoarding this week. Between physical books I keep finding in charity shops and the massive amounts of ebooks that I keep amassing from book bundles, there’s at least a hundred recipes that I want to try at some point (and probably make weird and wonderful amendments to).
The one I’m sharing this week is an…
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