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Salted Caramel Molten Chocolate Pots

"I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning" - Robert Duvall I was at a seminar thing recently where one of the speakers was Martha Swift, who turned her home cupcake operation into the hugely successful Primrose Bakery. I asked her whether she thought that her business, and those like it, were being negatively impacted by the War On Sugar that is currently being waged left right and centre. ...

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Introducing…. the 7 a Day series

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon" - Doug Larson. So how is everyone getting on with this 7-a-day thing then? Nailing it? Thinking of ramping it up to 12 by next month? Yeah, didn't think so. To recap briefly for people living in a cave or non-UK readers: a recently published study by University College London whipped the British press into a frenzy by ...

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My Food Rules

"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognise as food"  - Michael Pollen (Food Rules) So, yes, I have been deliberately avoiding telling you exactly what I mean by "healthy eating" and explaining the seemingly random selection process by which recipes end up on this blog. It's partly because I am still figuring it out, partly because it meant writing this looooong post but mainly because it's such a controversial subject and you ...

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Cookbook: A Change of Appetite

"Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery" - Samuel Johnson Just as I was really beginning to flounder with this whole healthy eating thing, a new cookbook clattered through the letterbox. An Amazon pre-order that I had forgotten I'd placed. AND IT QUITE SIMPLY CHANGED EVERYTHING. The book is A Change of Appetite by the Sunday Telegraph food writer Diana Henry and it turns ...

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