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By Anna, 15 August, 2010 4:54 pm

A passion for baking.
Thousands of recipes in the cookbooks that fill 3 shelves of our bookcase.
A whole internet-full of recipes from all over the world.
A larder filled with interesting ingredients.
A freezer, well actually, no. The freezer seems to have lots of fish in it and some freezer-burnt ribs, but nothing amazing, so forget the freezer.
But I have all the basics.
So what am I going to make this evening? Nothing. I’m just not feeling any of the recipes.

What I really want is a great big bag of Maltesers and for NCIS and True Blood to be back on. And The Sopranos.

But mostly, I want a big bag of Maltesers. Have I got any? No.

Bugger.

I really fancy some Maltesers. Or those little KitKat Kubes that disappeared as quickly as they arrived. (Why did they stop making them?)

That’s all. Just wanted to put that out there. Blackberry Curd to follow, as promised.

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By Anna, 20 July, 2010 9:08 pm

… walked into a pub.

Actually, they attached themselves to my husbands fishing line. How perfectly marvellous of them!

Continue reading 'A lobster and a dover sole…'»

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By Anna, 17 July, 2010 9:41 am

said the Jack Russell bitch to the Mastiff dog.

Apart from that universal truth, we have technologicalityishness problems with our PC. I was informed that there were many facets to the problem – indeed he began not only to list, but to explain them – but I have happily accepted the more layman’s explanation that ‘the computer is trying to die’.

What does that mean for us, dear blog-reading-foodies? Well, I have crept on here between my beloved’s swearing/problem solving sessions and as you can see, am typing this to you with little difficulty.

In fact, I have a few recipes to share and have drafted the prose, finalised the format of the recipes. There is one little problem though. Photos.

For some reason, known only to itself, the computer has taken against the hub/camera card reader with an anger so vehement that it’s shocking. It doesn’t quite reach the point of the blue screen of death, but the hatred that spews forth with each dismissive message is palpable. In true windows style, the explanations are different every time:

‘This device is not working’

‘Windows does not recognise this device’

*freeze*

< nothing happening

‘please insert disc’ (that one earned a wtf? from my husband)

and other silly things.

So the answer is to re-load the camera software and put the lead straight into the camera to enjoy the agony that is the very slow uploading of photos to computer. And that is what we shall do.

As soon as we can find the lead.

You don’t even want to KNOW what happened when he tried to save something to a CD.

In short, bear with us. The PC’s acting up. Shall we have a sing-a-long whilst we wait? Shall we daydream about what we could eat right now, this second if it were to magically appear in front of us?

I’ll start. I wish for grilled lobster and chewy bread. Next?

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By Anna, 11 June, 2010 9:47 am

Calling readers of Cream Until Fluffy.

We found a little widget that allows you to rate the tastiness of each post by clicking on the amount of stars that you feel the post is worthy of. It displays at the end of each snippet on the front page and then again at the very bottom of each complete article, so click away!

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By Anna, 21 December, 2009 5:36 pm

but drowning in Christmas preparation.

We had snow last Friday. A decent amount of snow. A LOT of ice. So much ice on our completely untreated roads that we haven’t been able to get the car out. Might attempt it again tomorrow. I did try yesterday, but got stuck in the back lane then Ian had a go and ended up sliding the length of the lane in the other direction.

I did what all good housewives did – I dug up half the garden and laid a track of muddy grit for him to drive along. The elderly guy opposite dug and pounded through the ice with a shovel and between the three of us, we got the car into the garage. Looks like two of the tyres might be flat. What a wonderful way to pass the time.

So a huge thank you to the council in our area for not laying any of the grit that they assured us we had plenty of. That’s why they have so much. They never bloody use it.

Some last minute Christmas shopping and an empty pantry means that I have little to blog. I did make some truffles for Alex’s treachers, so shall update that as and when I can.

Oh, I almost forgot. Thanks to the Russian spammers who have taken a big interest in my site. I had 84 potential comments the other day and my little heart filled with joy until I realised it was all spam. Haven’t a clue what it all said, but there were loads of exclaimation marks, so I’m thinking it was exciting.

Merry Christmas one and all and I’ll try to get to the truffles when I can. x

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By Anna, 30 August, 2009 10:51 pm

How about a fudgy chocolate cake? Hmmm?

How about a Bakewell Slice?

How about some cinnamon buns?

Thought so.

I’m meeting up with friends on Tuesday, so I’ll be baking all 3 tomorrow and Tuesday morning.

Preparation is the key. I have sorted out the pans I need, cut the baking paper circles for the chocolate cakes and weighed out the dry ingredients. My kitchen looks like a Small Bowl Emporium, but it does mean I’ll be able to get baking straightaway.

After I’ve fed the cats.

Given Alex his breakfast.

Made some coffee.

Second thoughts… Ian can do that. I’ll just get baking. Stay tuned for tomorrow, folks!

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By Anna, 8 August, 2009 3:21 pm

This song is for Brendrina, who went through 9 cartridges and 17 boxes of paper in a quick ‘I’ll just print this recipe off’ moment.
After much brain-storming and technical wizardry, Ian has managed to get the recipes on a clickable link.
Where a recipe is posted at the end of a post, there will be a phrase that says ‘print recipe’. Click on that and the recipe will open on another page, ready for your printing pleasure.
Hope that helps! xxx

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By Anna, 6 August, 2009 9:29 am

Well, this is all spankingly new and exciting. My poor techno-proficient husband is walking me through the finer points of blog-management. Sweet man…poor sweet man. He keeps biting the side of his thumb; wonder why?

Now that I’m learning the way around this thing, I’m getting ready to start posting some of the cooking I do for the 3 of us and some of the scrummy desserts and cakes that we share with family and friends.

Stay tuned.