Cat R.'s

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Recipes

Chocolate Pear Crisp

Posted by Cat R.  

These individual pear crisps are from the BBC Good Food website, by Mary Cadogan. It's not a crumble type crisp, but a nice change if you've been eating oaty fruit crumbles all winter. As the topping has no butter it is a lighter option, and it... MORE»

Recipe #287263

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Scotch Pancakes or Drop Scones

(3 reviews) Posted by Cat R.  

These are little pancakes, thicker than the Shove Tuesday, crepe-y ones. Eat hot, or cold the next day. Can add raisins, spices, other fruits to the batter if you like. MORE»

Recipe #243435

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Warm Sweet Potato Salad

Posted by Cat R.  

That sounds a lot grander than 'left over potato heated up for lunch'. It was a really easy, tasty lunchbox meal though. MORE»

Recipe #194481

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Oat and Date Slices

Posted by Cat R.  

Superfood packed sweet treat copied from Asda's instore magazine. *Use the full amount (or very near to) of butter/marg. My first go at these were lovely, although I was a little alarmed at the amount of butter that pooled on the top. I mopped... MORE»

Recipe #194056

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Date and Banana Puddings

Posted by Cat R.  

Baked sponge puddings, copied from Asda's instore magazine. This is not a very 'cakey' pudding, the proportion of dates and nuts to batter is quite high. I made a half batch of this recipe (but using a whole banana, and reducing the butter... MORE»

Recipe #194038

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Fig Flapjacks

Posted by Cat R.  

Stolen from the BBC Food website. Although there are plenty of flapjack recipes out there it's nice to have some guidance about how much extras to add. I'm wading through an enormous bag of dried figs... I didn't really notice any orange flavour... MORE»

Recipe #189999

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Plum and Ginger Mousse

Posted by Cat R.  

Stolen from Dan Lepard's Guardian cookery piece. It looks yummy, I haven't tried it though. Prep time looks long because it includes around 4 hours chill time before serving. MORE»

Recipe #189714

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Lemon Tart With Mango and Dark Chocolate Topping

Posted by Cat R.  

From Somerfield Magazine. Mango and chocolate is a stylish, tropical addition to the lemon cream tart. Cook time does not include chill time - required for pastry making, allowing pastry case to cool, allowing lemon filling to cool. This time can... MORE»

Recipe #167385

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Chocolate Truffle Cake

Posted by Cat R.  

From Somerfield magazine in a section called Fancy Food Fast! Haven't made this yet but it looks yummy. It is also flourless. Cook time does not include chill time, which is overnight/several hours. MORE»

Recipe #167198

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Strawberry and Raspberry Pudding

Posted by Cat R.  

A Sainsbury's recipe that I haven't tried, but from the picture, it looks like a set, creamy baked pudding studded with fruit. MORE»

Recipe #167197

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Pride of Andalusia

Posted by Cat R.  

Yummy Spanish upside down almondy-orange cake. Had to ask my mother to send me the recipe as I wanted to make it as an appeasement cake... She warned me to not try using all wheat flour and to take it easy when getting it out of the tin. It's by... MORE»

Recipe #159662

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Ricciarelli

(2 reviews) Posted by Cat R.  

AKA Sienese Almond Cookies, one of many sweet things simply called 'marzipan'. They are quite similar to the soft amaretti. Bought some for the festive season and it was strongly hinted that I should recreate them if possible. A little bit of... MORE»

Recipe #150726

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Orange and Almond Macaroons

Posted by Cat R.  

From the Sainsbury seasonal selection of recipes. I haven't tried this yet but am looking forward to. If anyone finds out how many eggs makes 75ml of white, share your discovery (or I will when I get round to it)! MORE»

Recipe #146157

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Pizza Dough

Posted by Cat R.  

For anyone not feeling like converting measurements to metric, this is a recipe from Silvana Franco (Saturday Kitchen). It uses a standard sachet of yeast. I ended up with a monster deep pan pizza by accident so roll/ pat it out thinly if that's... MORE»

Recipe #145513

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Butterscotch Pudding

(3 reviews) Posted by Cat R.  

Got this from www.wholehealthmd.com, they have an online recipe makeover. Was looking for a pudding mix to substitute for bought mix that didn't look like it had vast amounts of sugar (yes, ok, butterscotch is supposed to be sugary). MORE»

Recipe #134998

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Mushroom and Sausage Wrap

Posted by Cat R.  

Quick lunch using left over sausage. I had red wine to hand (from a previous night) but white can be used, or left out depending on your tastes. I find red adds depth to the mushrooms. MORE»

Recipe #132156

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