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Horsemeat Saga contd……buy your meat locally and make your own burgers

Homemade burgers take 5 minutes – chop 1 onion, mix with 500g minced beef, lamb, pork, venison or horse if that is your preference, add 1 egg, season with salt and pepper and mix together. For a finer textured burger whizz the mixture in a food processor, shape into balls, flatten to the desired thickness,…

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Halloween cupcakes and glow in the dark icing

The children at Splat Cooking’s Saturday morning club decorated Halloween cupcakes this weekend and here are the amazing photos.  We also made glow in the dark icing, although it’s not really glow in the dark as you need a black or UV light to really make it shine but it does work.  You will need:…

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Thame Food Festival

Yesterday dawned lovely and sunny and we all breathed a sign of relief as it was Thame Food Festival and we’d waited a whole year for this amazing food festival and were desperately hoping that it wouldn’t rain. I was kicking off the first dem of the day in the chef’s theatre at 10am with…

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Damson Jam

Beverley's homemade damson jam It’s September, it’s sunny, grab your boots and get outside with the kids to gather damsons from the hedgerows and go home and make jam with them.  Damson jam is seriously good, homemade damson jam tastes nothing like the stuff you get in the jars in shops which is just about…

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Bellaverde Broccoli

This is amazing stuff, I’ve always thought the idea of eating ‘trees’ was cool but Bellaverde broccoli is even better than normal trees, they’re big trees and they’re sweet too. I’m really proud to say that I’m one of Bellaverde’s Celebrity Mums and have one of my favourite family recipes up on their website.  My…

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