Stupidly Easy Recipes: Sausage and Bean Casserole – An Anti-Recipe

Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Spice-Rack I hardly ever buy the Sunday Papers. This is because the colour supplements terrify me. They have articles telling me things like which narcissus bulbs I should be planting this month to ensure my garden stays on-trend next spring, or how to choose the [...]

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Stupidly Easy Recipes: Vanilla Fudge

A Recipe With Its Own Hidden Dangers This is a great recipe for when your kids want to give their teachers a Christmas present. It’s very simple, very delicious and looks very pretty when put in jars with gingham lids. However, do be careful who you show them to. The kids and I made many, [...]

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Stupidly Easy Recipes: Catsbum Chocolate Pudding

A Pudding With A Health Warning Let’s begin with the circumstances in which you should not make this pudding. Firstly, do not make it for any occasion when looks are important. It is delicious; it is chocolatey; it will make your guests’ eyes roll back in their head a little bit when they eat it. [...]

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Stupidly Easy Recipes: Stepford Lemon Drizzle Cake

When Your Friends’ Mothers Start Asking For The Recipe, You Know You’re Really Onto Something Lemon Drizzle Cake is the first recipe I’ve ever felt possessive about. Normally when people ask me for a recipe, I display the kind of over-the-top enthusiasm you get when you offer to take a labrador for a walk, like, [...]

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Stupidly Easy Recipes: Ten-Minutes-To-Save-The-Earth Chicken

“Flash! Flash, I love you! But we only have ten minutes to save the Earth!” Serves two tired, hungry adults with a ludicrously over-scheduled evening and no time whatsoever to spend on preparing anything for dinner. Ingredients 2 chicken breasts or 4 chicken thighs, depending what you can unearth from the freezer 1 large onion [...]

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Stupidly Easy Recipes: Child-catching Chocolate Pudding

Come Into My Gingerbread House, Little One… This pudding is a great way to kick-start your child’s social life. Once you’re made it for one child once, the word will spread, and you will then be able to lure not only that child, but all future children, round to your house to play with your child [...]

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