Brown Sugar Banana Bread

Banana bread to me is comfort food. I had a bad time with my tummy a few years ago which meant I had to go off dairy, chocolate, anything fatty, red meat, alcohol, you name it, it hurt me, it had to go. As is my way, I did lots…

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Saucepan Oatmeal Cookies

I love cookies but sometimes I get lazy about taking the mixer out of the press and lugging it the whole way to the counter, and then having to wrestle the bowl from the boys before they lick the coating off it. My laziness is really getting a lot of…

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Toblerone Cheesecake

Toblerone Cheesecake I’ve always been a Toblerone fan.  When I was a child Toblerone was a luxury, the reserve of Easter Eggs and Duty Free.  I have happy memories of eating Toblerone on another continent, jet lagged, with no food available thanks to a late flight and the only edible…

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Apple Flapjacks

I have a thing about flapjacks.  Even though they are laden with sugar and are sticky and full of butter I still consider them a healthy addition to the boys’  lunchboxes.  Must be the porridge, sure the fibre must do some good. My three and a half year old is…

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Meringues

It’s not often that the egg whites are the leftovers, but after a carbonara dinner I was left with two lonely whites in a mug  begging to be used. I’m a pavlova veteran but 2 egg whites wouldn’t make much of a pavlova so I thought of their close family…

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