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The week we talked chicken: Hugh’s Chicken Run and Jamie’s Fowl Dinners

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If ever there was a group that deserved the moniker ‘the forgotten millions’ it is the vast number of chickens living in squalid conditions to feed the UK’s unquenchable demand for cheap chickens and eggs. Until last week that is, when the forgotten millions were suddenly in the limelight, stars of their own week of TV programmes aired … Read the full post

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Spiced Chilli Hot Chocolate – a sweetly ethical and healthy(ish) treat

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Spiced chilli hot chocolate is an idea as old as well, hot chocolate! The earliest traces of hot chocolate, found in Mayan tombs in Guatamala dating back to 460 A.D, had been made from a paste ground from cocoa seeds mixed with cornmeal and chillis. I like this spicy hot chocolate as an occasional mid afternoon pick me up when … Read the full post

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Baby carrots with plums and chilli

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As mentioned in my earlier post about the french beans with almonds, I’m going through a phase of ‘messing about with my vegetables’, finding new ways to cook and prepare that don’t bring anything disagreeably unhealthy into the equation. Roughly translated, this means no lashings of saturated fat heavy butter (well not every day anyway!) and not too much … Read the full post

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Eco-friendly reasons not to be upset if your old dishwasher dies

Thumbnail image for Eco-friendly reasons not to be upset if your old dishwasher dies August 29, 2007

So our dishwasher broke a couple of weeks back and I really don’t like washing up, which is ironic considering how much of it I create. It’s NOT therapeutic and it DOES make your hands all wrinkly.

Anyway I thought I’d make the effort and try washing up for a while, to be more eco-friendly y’know. It turns out that … Read the full post

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