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Thame Food Festival

Beverley Glock and Phil Gayle on stage at Thame Food Festival

Whahoo, it’s that time of year again, Thame Food Festival is tomorrow, Saturday 28 September.  This year it’s even bigger and taking up the whole of the high street….Annual fun fair eat your heart out.

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Magimix – the easiest machine to use EVER!

Small boy (aged 10) had a sale to raise money for his form’s chosen charity today.  He decided that his team were going to have a bake sale, they were given instructions on what to make and he spent most of Sunday baking.  On the list were: Gingerbread Shortbread Snickerdoodles Brownies So one huge traybake…

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It’s Christmas – beat the recession and make your gifts

  Just finished Bill Buckley’s Sunday Lunch show on BBC Oxford where we’ve been talking about making edible Christmas presents with the help of Rachel Allen on dial in, pity she couldn’t have been in the studio but it was good to catch up as I’ve not seen her since the summer. Making Christmas gifts…

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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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Foodie Advent Calendar

Splat Cooking have just launched a Foodie Advent Calendar, from 1 December they’re going to be putting up a different recipe a day for the 24 days running up to Christmas. The recipes will be related to Christmas and could fall into the following categories: Edible Christmas presents Christmas tree decorations Nibbles and canapes for…

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500 Baby and Toddler Foods – my new baby food cookbook

500 Baby and Toddler Foods by Beverley Glock I’ve just received the first copy of my new book ‘500 Baby and Toddler Foods’ published by Apple Press on 5 September 2011. Wow, it’s real.  It looks amazing.  My Big Girl looked through it this morning and exclaimed that the recipes in it were far nicer…

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Camp Bestival – how to put up a tent

How to put up a tent Two days to go – today’s lecture is on how to put up a tent easily, effectively and with little stress. 1.  Book into a preprepared one, ie a tipi, roundhouse, airstream trailer or yurt preferably with built in furniture and maid service (this is my personal preference, but…

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