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New paths

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I hate those “I’m sorry I haven’t posted on my blog for months and months but I’ve been really busy” posts.  Blogging should be a pleasure, not a chore that you must squeeze in. Plus sometimes it needs to be gently reminded of its place around activities that get you out spending time with the [...]

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Check out our new look

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Mostly Eating has a new look for 2011.  I loved the old design dearly but it was time for a change.  Do have a look round then let me know what you think! Behind the scenes we’ve made the big jump from Movable Type over to WordPress. Movable Type has done a good job running [...]

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Well hello there!

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I’ve been taking a bit of a blogging break. Hanging out with my chooks, planning this year’s vegetable plot, making cupcakes (I know, who’d have thought?) and doing a lot of learning at work. A break has been nice but I’ve missed you all and I’ve got lots of recipes, links and photos saved up [...]

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Super Natural Recipe Search Engine

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Supernatural Recipe Search Engine is a new search engine for finding recipes that utilise natural, minimally processed ingredients. It’s such a lovely and useful idea that I wanted to write a quick post to let you know about it. I’m sure many of you will have found your way over to the site already as [...]

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A Happy and Healthy 2009

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Here’s wishing you and your families a happy and healthy 2009!  Today will be a day chilling out on the settee for me, reading The Smelly Sprout, watching the other half play MarioKart on the Wii and messing with my awesome new rice cooker/slow cooker/steamer/porridge cooker gadget.  For you enthusiastic souls straight on to New [...]

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Menu for Hope 2008: Veg lovers book collection

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It’s Menu for Hope time again!  Menu for Hope is an annual food blogging fundraising event that takes the form of a gigantic raffle of fabulous foodie prizes.  You can read more about this year’s Menu for Hope and see the full prize list over at the site of the events creator, Pim.  This year’s [...]

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A few little changes for Autumn

October 14, 2008

I’m doing that commute again at the moment and our cooking has been very much of the tried and tested variety, hence the slightly light recipe flow.  I have however been indulging my inner geek and making a few cosmetic and technical tweaks to Mostly Eating.  First of all, I decided it would be fun [...]

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A new look for Mostly Eating!

February 18, 2008

I’ve been really busy in real life and a neglectful blog owner of late, not posting much at all, and even worse, missing its first birthday at the end of January (and even then I only realised when Wendy confessed to missing hers!). The best way I could think of to make it up to [...]

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Christmas Flapjack

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We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope you all have a lovely time over the Christmas break. We will be off up North in a couple of days to see both of our families and before that I’m planning a leisurely couple of days wrapping presents and drinking mulled [...]

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Fancy some chocolate?

November 30, 2007

Mostly Eating has been very serious of late so I thought a bit of a treat was in order and so we are buddying up with luxury chocolate purveyors Hotel Chocolat for their chocolate recipe competition. All you have to do is send in your most delicious chocolate recipe by 11:59pm on the 12th December [...]

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A photo and new UK cookery programme

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I’m a bit poorly at the moment but have been cheered up greatly by the news that my entry into last month’s Does My Blog Look Good in This? photography competition has been chosen as the winner in the aesthetics category. With over 100 entries I am very flattered indeed, though I can’t help but [...]

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Tagged for a meme: Fantastic Four

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Yesterday I was tagged for the Fantastic Four meme by Joanna at Joanna’s Food, who got in just before Nick at the Tracing Paper. Many thanks to both of you, I felt very popular which was lovely :-) And if you haven’t read either of their blogs before then go and check them out; Joanna [...]

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Name that produce – Edition no. 2

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I had to ask what this purple and white beauty was at the garden shop, something I always do in a little bit of trepidation in case it is something terribly obvious. Is it just me, does everybody else know what this is? We played the same guessing game at home. My other half thought [...]

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Birthday cake (and a patisserie and book recommendation)

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Yesterday was my birthday and in honour of this I took a short trip to Summertown to try out a new Patisserie a few people had told me about recently, Gatineau. I sampled their custardy tarte aux framboises (pictured) and the tarte aux myrtilles et amandes, both lovely and with gorgeous pastry, but as I [...]

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Name that food…

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A bit of fun, while it’s still raining here… Would anybody like to hazard a guess as to what this is? The only clues I’m letting on are that it was grown in the UK, and is definitely edible. Place your best guess here and I’ll report back later in the week!

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Help from an unexpected quarter

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Yesterday morning I got down an assortment of cookery books from the shelf, idly flicking through for ideas for something lovely to cook for our friends on Saturday night. Uninspired, I left them in a big untidy pile on the living room floor to come back to later (some Bill Grangers and Nigel Slaters if [...]

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Chocolate mini bites with a chili kick

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Friday was a big day for me, my last day after working in the same place for nearly nine and a half years! As is tradition when somebody arrives or leaves we had a big communal coffee morning, known locally as a Beano. This isn’t the place to describe the perfectly chosen flowers, photos and [...]

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