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By Anna, 26 January, 2012 6:42 pm

Firstly, sorry. To say I have been absent from my own blog is putting it mildly. It’s not that I haven’t thought about it, or any readers still out there in the ether, but life got in the way. Rather, a change to my life.

You see, I’ve lost 3.5 stone (49lbs), dropped 4 dress sizes and from starting c25k in April, am preparing for my first half marathon in three week’s time.

Yeah. Crazy. I’m a running fool. Love it. Can’t be without it. Even better? Now that I have the thyroxine at the right level and do all this running, I can eat cake. And bread. And pasta.

I. Love. Running.

I can eat cake without gaining weight.

Is miracle.

Also, our computer monitor went majorly up the creek and getting the colour right has been a mission. If the photos look very dreadfully wrong, do let me know.

So enough about me, let’s talk about this here cake. I got the magazine – Country Homes and Interiors (October 2011) – fourth-hand. I’ll be honest, it was a bit depressing looking at these spectacular places in the countryside with their achingly cool interiors and shabby chicness flung around, so I turned to the recipe bit. You know where you are with recipes. Doesn’t require a lottery win either. Or a grubby fling with a millionaire.

I chose it because it looked easy, simple and, well, filling. Nourishing. Not airy-fairy or full of cool, but solid and hole-filling.

Turned out to be one of the most flavoursome and delightful cakes I’ve made. Can’t recommend it enough.

Isn’t it just lovely when that happens?

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By Anna, 1 October, 2009 2:56 pm

So I was chatting to Auntie Rene on the phone the other night; we were talking about this blog and she started revealing some culinary secrets and more to the point, sharing some of her recipes! I have a few lined up, but started with this one given to Rene years ago by a friend of hers.

It sounded good from the off, it was easy to make and it tastes absolutely delicious. There is one diced apple in the recipe and it adds such a different dimension to the flavour. There is no apple taste per se, just a rounded layer of flavour. It’s genius. Ian said it reminded him of a kashmir curry and he’s right. He experimented with the leftovers by putting a very mean drizzle of double cream in and stirring that round – it changed the dish again. So bear that in mind as an option if you like creamy curries; that taster was a bit rich for me, so keep it mean.

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