Raw apricot, coconut & cashew bars

June 8, 2010
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Marathon training has got me seriously thinking about carbs and the serious lack of them I’ve had in my diet. I’d never really thought about carbs much before- at least not in a positive light.  Carbs are the source of all evil, aren’t they? They cause bloating, gas and don’t they make you fat? Well, [...]

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30 Days to a Food Revolution

June 1, 2010

When I heard about Diane’s 30 Days to a Food Revolution I felt super buzzed about the idea and knew that I wanted to be involved. We had succeeded! The word was getting out and the show that I shed blood, sweat, tears and sprained my ankle on was finally going to make a difference [...]

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Crispy rice & sesame things

May 28, 2010
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Rice crispy treats are so 1995. Okay, so they’re still good, gooey and make me feel like a kid but these are grown-up treats that come in kiddie packaging. Or kiddie treats that grown-ups will love. As far as I’m concerned anything that comes in some sort of paper casing is pretty cool- it makes [...]

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A single jar of strawberry jam

May 25, 2010
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Things I hate about commercially bought strawberry jam
1. I’m never actually sure that it’s made of strawberries because all I can taste is sugar
2. The way my mouth feels ripped to shreds having been coated in sugar
3. The fact that I have no control over how runny or set it is or how many chunks [...]

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Crispy, crunchy full of nuts granola bars

May 21, 2010
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Ahhh granola bars, how I love thee. The way you are crunchy and chewy at the same time, the way that you can pass as a healthy breakfast option, the way you go so well with both a morning coffee and an afternoon brew, the way your wholesome oats both fill me up and cure [...]

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Strawberry bakewell slice

May 18, 2010

I’m back from Scotland. I’m back from the beautiful Glens, munroes that reach the clouds, the breathtaking loch’s and the killer full-Scottish breakfasts. That’s a eggs, beans, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, haggis, black pudding, potato pancakes and toast all on one plate- that I didn’t have any part in cooking.  Thank God that summer has [...]

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Grilled papaya with lime & crumble topping

April 26, 2010

There are two things that I question when I  decide to make a dessert. The first is: is it easy to make? And the second is : would it be appropriate for me to eat any  leftovers for breakfast? If it checks both boxes then I’m pretty much sold.

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A little less sweet flapjacks

April 19, 2010

At the Brooklyn Flea Market on Saturday, the weather looked, well ominous. It had rained all night and the heavy gray clouds had yet to clear. But that didn’t stop 40 NYC food bloggers from wrapping up their home made goodies and setting up shop- amongst the car park puddles in the name of ending [...]

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Delicate red velvet cupcakes

April 17, 2010

I like the way red velvet cupcake sounds as it slips off the tongue.  Red Velvet…. it’s sort of racy and suggestive.
Before moving to New York I’d never come across the elusive red velvet cake but a college marathon of Sex & the City repeats left me eager to seek them out. It does seem [...]

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Multi-grain baps

April 6, 2010
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If there’s one word that I miss hearing now I live in New York it’s baps. When I was at school, baps had two meanings- the first referred to big soft slightly flattened white floury rolls and the second was something entirely different and far too rude to write about here. Fortunately the rude connotation [...]

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