Pita Bread Diet
So the basic premise of this diet is you can have anything you like as long as it fits in a pita bread. The size of a average pita will help you keep a hold on portion sizes. Have your normal breakfast and lunch and then a pita for dinner. Combined with exercise...
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Deep fried Quail’s Eggs and Smoked Anchovy Salad
This recipe takes a bit of preparing but is well worth it if trying to impress family or friends. It makes a good starter or a light lunch. I used some fantastic smoked anchovies from Fyne Fish in Cockermouth. You can use anchovies from a tin but they are too salty...
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Food Preparation
There are reasons why TV chefs and cooks layout their ingredients before cooking and its not just because it looks pretty for the cameras. It's a common practice in all restaurants and it's something that you should be doing every time you enter the kitchen, and...
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5 “Manly” Cocktails
Lets face it you can't walk into your local pub and order a pina colada without getting a few funny looks from your friends or the locals. So here's 5 cocktails that will keep your manly facade: Old Fashioned (Pictured) 50ml whisky 3 dashes Angostura Bitters Splash of...
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Wild Garlic Season
Ever been walking through a wood and suddenly its starts to smell like a vampire's worst nightmare? Well the chances are you just walked past some wild garlic also known as ramsons. Relatively easy to find and lots of uses wild garlic is considered to be a gateway...
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International Whisk(e)y Day: 32 down… 69 to go
Today is international whisk(e)y day so I wanted to recommend a really good book I've had for a couple of years now. Now in it's 3rd edition, (photo above is my first edition copy), Ian buxton's 101 whiskies to try before you die is a great little book for the budding...
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Toffee White Russian
Ever since I saw Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski drinking white Russians like it was going out of fashion I was hooked on this cocktail. Was it because I wanted to be a cool as "the dude" in that film? Probably... yes. This is a version of a White Russian...
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Kendal Festival of Food
"You're not so sure about peanut butter are you?" I heard as I quizzically looked at the Funky Nut Co. stall. They were not wrong, but my curiosity took over and I was pleased it did as I ended up buying two of their wonderfully flavoured peanut butters. That's one of...
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