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  • 10 months

    The last two months have been one of the biggest periods of change in Edward’s life, or at least that’s the way it feels. Most significantly to me, language has begun – both more obvious understanding of what we say to him (knowing his name, putting his arms up when we ask, looking around as…

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  • 100 new recipes: part five

    36/100: Creamy Chicken & Asparagus Linguine. This barely counts as a recipe, but I’m including it anyway. I just fried asparagus, chicken breasts, garlic and cream together into a sauce, then stirred through linguine and served it over spinach leaves, which wilted. I’m having a spinach moment. Delicious spinach. 37/100: Succotash – from this recipe.…

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  • 100 new recipes: part four

    26/100: French Toast – from this recipe. This was such an easy breakfast – crispy delicious toast with maple syrup. 27/100: Quick Flatbreads – from this recipe. This is a very quick, fluffy flatbread – easy to get on in the late afternoon for fresh bread with dinner. 28/100: Meatloaf – from this recipe. I…

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  • Thing of the Week #2

    Thing of the Week is just that – something I’m enjoying each week I recently bought a new wallet – replacing the turquoise one above with the hive pattern on it, which was about two years old, with the yellow one with butterflies. I have kept the turquoise one, even though it has been stained…

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  • 9 months

    Edward has suddenly launched himself through quite a few developmental milestones this past month, which has been fun and busy and rather dizzying. 12 months and the end of little-babyhood seems to be looming on the horizon, and he seems like more of a small child each day. Things I’m enjoying at 9 months: 1.…

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  • Thing of the Week #1

    (picture from here) The show the husband and I are currently watching together on weeknights is “The Supersizers…”. It’s a BBC show from 2008 and 2009, and all the episodes are available on YouTube. I was introduced to the show by Genevieve Valentine’s very amusing recaps of the show, and we have watched most of…

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  • The other side

    So many parenting related matters cause a current of anxiety, the unanswerable “am I doing the right thing” question – unanswerable because no-one else is your child’s parent, and no-one can answer that question better than you, despite the fact that you might feel like you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. Is…

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  • 100 new recipes: part three

    18/100: Braised Eggplant & Prunes – from this recipe. I’d never slow cooked eggplant before, and it’s beautiful – silky and soft, in a lovely broth. 19/100: Homemade Yoghurt – adapted from this recipe. This is so easy to make and tastes great, plus it feels tremendously satisfying eating homemade yoghurt with your breakfast. 20/100:…

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  • Making yoghurt in a slow cooker

    I have a cheap slow cooker that I bought at one point and have rarely used – it sits gathering dust in the pantry. Well, it used to – no longer! It is now a ridiculously large and unwieldy yoghurt maker. I’ve made yoghurt twice, based on this method of making it in a slow…

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  • 100 new recipes: part two

    Remember how I declared I had a marvellous project to make 50 new recipes this year? Well, I was making such good progress that I changed my mind and made it 100. So! You’ll find recipes 1 – 9 here, and below are 10 through 17: 10/100: Coffee Braised Beef – adapted from this recipe.…

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