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Continue reading →: Quick update on the year
Read 214 books – 121/214 (on track with this) Knit 16 squares - 10/16 (hmm need to get back to this and soon!) At least 1 new recipe every 4 weeks – done Use make-up at least once a week – 25/52 (still playing catch up and will be until…
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Continue reading →: Desk, dogs and door!
Okay the last couple of weeks have been centred around the letter D for some reason :D, the main one is the final one of the title, we ended up getting rid of the warped and damaged front door with a nice shiny new (wooden) one. This may not be…
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Continue reading →: Is the house getting there?
At the end of January I decided to name and shame our rooms! Since then we have been slowly trying to get stuff sorted (and by slowly I mean really slowly!), the main thing is that the spare room/study has been decorated and the general pile of stuff in there…
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Continue reading →: Oh-no Khaukswe Chicken Noodle Curry
All Asian countries have their own brand of curry, and all are different. The curries we are most familiar with in the UK are Indian and Thai, and Burmese ones contain elements of both while being distinctly their own. Simple and tasty in the base, but as was often the case in…
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Continue reading →: Quorn Mushroom Stroganoff
Ingredients 1 pack Quorn Meat Free Balls 2 tbsp olive oil 15g butter 1 large onion, finely chopped 1 pint white wine 150g chestnut mushrooms sliced 300g low fat creme fraiche 1 tbsp whole grain Dijon mustard Salt & freshly ground black pepper 1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped …
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Continue reading →: Quick update of 2014 plans and crafts
Okay we are nearly half way trhough 2014 (eep!) and a round up of how I am getting on is needed I think. I am slowly crawling my way through my plans for the year and I am ahead on a couple of points, behind on a couple, but hey…
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Continue reading →: Need to step up a notch
Everything seems to have ground to a halt, my weight has stalled (dagnabbit!), I haven't crafted in two weeks and I am 6 books behind on my target! Oh and add in to that I haven't worn make-up for three weeks and things are not looking too good Wytchy wise…
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Continue reading →: Creamy mushroom tagliatelle
Ingredients ¼ onion, diced 25g/1oz dried mushrooms, soaked in hot water, drained and liquid reserved 3 tbsp olive oil 150g/5¼oz cooked tagliatelle 50ml/1¾fl oz double cream salt and freshly ground black pepper Preparation method In a large hot pan sweat the onion with the oil. Chop the drained mushrooms and…
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Continue reading →: one week later
okay no real knitting has happened (well okay I got another couple of sampler squares done and did a bit on the sweater but that was it!) but I did get some done on the Map of Durham (yay!) and more of the background colour done on the tapestry. I…
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Continue reading →: Crafting and dogs
Okay not much has been happening crafting wise for a while (apart from a mjor snit when I realised I had made a humungeous error near the start of my sweater so the whole lot came back out! I am now re-knitting that *sigh*), I have taken a long hard…
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