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Continue reading →: Death in Bloom: A Flower House Mystery by Jess Dylan
Sierra Ravenswood is the new part-time employee of the Flower House, a flower shop in Aerieville, Tennessee. It's true she didn't expect to be back in her hometown at twenty-eight-years-old, but after her dream of making it as a singer in Nashville crashed and burned, she's just grateful to have…
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Continue reading →: Still Life by Louise Penny
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of…
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Continue reading →: Five-spice cucumber and chicken stir-fry
Ingredients 1 heaped tsp Chinese five-spice powder* 3 tbsp chicken stock 2 large garlic cloves, crushed 5cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely grated Juice of 2 limes 4 skinless and boneless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips Low-calorie cooking spray 4 peppers (2 red and 2 yellow),…
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Continue reading →: Kale and mushroom pie
Ingredients 1 leek, finely chopped 1 large carrot, diced 400g chestnut, button or portobello mushrooms, sliced 400g can chopped tomatoes 1 vegetable stock pot 150g kale, shredded 800g potatoes, cut into chunks 1 egg, beaten Method Preheat your oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6. Put the leek, carrot, mushrooms,…
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Continue reading →: Welsh Onion Cake
Ingredients 225g green cabbage, finely shredded Low calorie cooking spray 500g onions, thinly sliced Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 sprigs of rosemary 900g Maris Piper potatoes, thinly sliced Steamed green beans, to serve Method Preheat your oven to 190°C/170°C Fan/Gas 5. Blanch the shredded cabbage in…
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Continue reading →: Spicy Swede Soup with Ginger
Ingredients 1 brown onion chopped 1 garlic clove peeled 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil 2 stalks celery 3 medium-size white potatoes 3 large carrots 1 large swede 1 1-inch piece fresh ginger 2 vegetable stock cubes bouillon cubes 600-800 ml water salt and pepper to taste To serve…
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Continue reading →: 2023 will be my year
Or at least I hope so! I am doing Slimming World, and following the 1940s experiment I weighed in yesterday at sobs 22 st 10 lbs (318 lbs or 144 kg), like Carolyn I would like to lose 100 pounds this year (that would be the ideal), but frankly if…
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Continue reading →: Quorn chilli cottage pie
Ingredients Low-calorie cooking spray 1 large onion, finely chopped 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 tsp hot chilli powder 1 tsp paprika (ideally sweet smoked) 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp dried thyme 400g can chopped tomatoes 500ml hot vegetable stock 2 tbsp tomato…
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Continue reading →: The Tiny Kitchen Cookbook: Strategies and Recipes for Creating Amazing Meals in Small Spaces by Annie Mahle
Whether home is a small apartment, a tiny house or RV, a boat, or a college dorm room, space in the kitchen is nearly always at a premium. But cooking in a small kitchen, with minimal equipment, doesn't have to be limiting; it can actually be is a great opportunity…
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Continue reading →: Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney
Natalie Barnes buys the Gray Whale Inn, a bed and breakfast in Maine, and publicly opposes Bernard Katz's proposed resort development, which threatens a colony of black-chinned terns, and when Katz is found dead, Natalie must find the true killer in order to clear her own name. Natalie has bought…
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