These are very easy to make just as you would a mince pie, but instead of a lid you add a crumble like topping, which is lovely. Thanks Carole. This can be made in a 7″ flan tin instead. Ingredients PASTRY 75 grams plain flour 15 grams caster sugar 50 grams butter/margarine 1 egg yolk …
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Category:Yummies
This is a page for family favourite recipes, many passed ont to me from friends and family, all of them have been well tried.
With budgets in mind, a lot of the recipes are adapted to use cheaper cuts of meat, also most of them are freezer friendly, so we can make large portions and stock them in the freezer.
I am always grateful to people sending me recipes that they love and then to share them on this section for others to try. I will be putting up some vegitarian recipes and all the recipes benefit from organic or home produce, if you can afford them or you grow them yourself.
Lemon Drizzle Cake
This cake is one of my all time favorites, Joanne’s gran always made this cake for me she was an amazing woman and a wonderful cook. The lemon cake freezes very well so you always can have some cake in, which is nice if mates call for coffee. This cake will keep and freeze but …
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Lemon Curd Ice Cream & Hot Bluberries
I love Lemons in the summer and with the blueberries this makes a stunning pudding, it also means that it sits in your freezer so you can make it weeks before and just make the bluberry part on the day you want to serve it. The blueberries are heated in gin but do not worry …
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Chicken Breasts In White Wine & Tarragon Sauce
This recipe is easy and you can change the sauce, if you do not like tarragon it could be a mushroom sauce or just a wine sauce, you can make the sauce before and it can be heated later and finished off so it is quite a versatile dish. I would not recommend freezing this …
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Lime and Corriander Chicken
This is a Delia Smith recipe and I just love it, tangy fresh and very easy and quick Serves 2 very easy to double up for a supper for 4 Ingredients 2 Chicken breasts, Grated zest and juice of 1 large lime. 5oz [150ml] tinned coconut milk 1 spoonful of oil 1 Green chilli 1 …
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Susie’s Eton Mess
This is my version of good old Eton mess, so easy yet so moreish, the secret lies in really good meringues and very good fruit. I found the combination of small English strawberries, fresh raspberries and blueberries just wonderful. Most of the time though I just go for rasps and strawberries with lashings of a …
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