Recipes & Cooking Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/recipes-cooking/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Tue, 09 Feb 2016 06:24:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Recipes & Cooking Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/recipes-cooking/ 32 32 2696646 Booster Bars https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/booster-bars/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/02/booster-bars/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2016 06:55:17 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21163 I’m sure that even being packed full of seeds and fruit that these ‘Booster Bars’ aren’t good for you. Somehow, I think the masses of butter, sugar, peanut butter and honey kind of override any goodness from the seeds. And if we’re counting calories then things don’t get much more calorie dense than this. Very...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/09/lazy-boy/feed/ 1 20147 Slow Cooker Recipes https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/slow-cooking/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/slow-cooking/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2015 08:05:21 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18648 We’ve had a slow cooker for years and I have to admit it is lovely to head out for the day (whether that is off for a walk in the hills with Alan and Morgan or just a day at work) and have tea all ready to go when you walk through the door.

I have only ever made stew in our slow cooker. I have played with the variety of stew and we've had some lovely beef, pork and leek, beef and ale and chicken stews over the years...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/slow-cooking/feed/ 1 18648 Christmas Tree Cake https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/christmas-tree-cake/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/christmas-tree-cake/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:17:55 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18143 It’s not quite finished yet – we have to add a whole load of presents around the tree. Morgan has been working hard on those. Otherwise progress on the Christmas Tree themed Christmas Cake is coming on well. Even if I do now literally have green fingers thanks to all of the green food colouring!...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/christmas-tree-cake/feed/ 0 18143 The Christmas Cakes are a Coming https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/christmas-cakes-coming/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/christmas-cakes-coming/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:33:46 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18138 Another sleepless night last night thanks to the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers. We started off by taking the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts to the Railway Inn and The Victoria in Borth so that they could sing carols at the Mad Friday punters and collect some money. They did OK and the people of Borth...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/12/christmas-cakes-coming/feed/ 2 18138 Christmas Cake Baking https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/10/christmas-cake-baking/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/10/christmas-cake-baking/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:57:11 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=17917 If you haven’t already done so, then it’s time to think about baking your Christmas Cake. I know some people do it much earlier than this, but the half term holidays seems like a perfect time to do it. We have about 8 weeks until Christmas itself, which give me plenty of time to ‘feed’...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/09/homemade-chilli-jam/feed/ 0 17731 Pork and Sweet Potato Sumac Curry https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/pork-and-sweet-potato-sumac-curry/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/pork-and-sweet-potato-sumac-curry/#respond Sat, 24 May 2014 10:59:11 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=16815 I continue to work my way through Rick Steins ‘India’ Cookbook and we’ve been loving most of the curry’s from it. To start with I was following the recipes as closely as possible and then, once I’ve cooked them once or twice, tend to adapt them to suit our tastes and the ingredients we have. Some...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/pork-and-sweet-potato-sumac-curry/feed/ 0 16815 Cheesecake Muffins https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/cheesecake-muffins/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/05/cheesecake-muffins/#respond Sat, 24 May 2014 10:02:17 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=16806 Mmm, Cheesecake Muffins from a Philadelphia Cookbook – except I replaced the peaches with pears and the sour cream with creme fraiche. The Cheesecake Brownies were nice too.

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