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By Little Mummy, May 5, 2010 8:23 am

So after two years of devotion to the chicken nugget we’ve managed to get Erin to eat turkey, albeit in drumstick form.

Like any decent parent I’m now wondering if I can get her to eat it in any form other than ‘bootiful’ drumstick….I know, I know the odds are not good, I should just save the effort knowing that one day she’ll realise that meat tastes good even when it isn’t reconstitued into drumsticks, dinosaurs or nuggets. In the meantime thank the lord for birds eye and bernard matthews

I love the bbc recipe website and a search for ‘turkey’ brought up 113 results! I fancy the sound of beer battered broccoli with turkey goujons and soy/chilli dip or turkey burger with tomato and apple relish served with potato wedges. Bootiful!

So come on, what turkey recipes do you have? Do you eat much turkey? Do your kids eat it?

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By Little Mummy, April 20, 2010 11:47 pm

The temptation when faced with the theme ’7 Deadly Sins’ is to find a photo for each of the sins, however I’m resisting the urge and focusing on Gluttony.

I took this photo in a sweet shop in St Andrews on my iPhone. I love the colours. It makes me want to buy several large bags of sweeties.

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By Little Mummy, April 8, 2010 10:44 pm

I spent a good hour looking at This is Why You’re Fat (where dreams become heart attacks!) where you’ll discover such delights as the Bacon Bouquet, Cupcakes Wellington and Cadbury Creme Eggs Benedict.

So now I challenge you to fess up to your own artery busting concoctions, and I want pictures (or video)!!

I’ll go first my guilty pleasure is…..

that’s right, pickled onion monster munch and a boost, eaten AT THE SAME TIME ie . I know, I know, it alternate bights of chocolate then crisps. Sounds disgusting but it’s a flavour combination that really works, it’s like junk food sweet and sour, you really must try it. For the full experience wash it down with a can of Irn Bru or Coke.

So now the tagging, here goes;

Sleep is for the Weak aka @porridgebrain

Notes from Lapland

You’ve Got Your Hands Full aka @LindaSJones

Cafebebe

Jo Beaufoix

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By Little Mummy, April 2, 2010 12:43 am

I love food. I love eating it, I love cooking it, I even love taking photos of it. So here’s my fantasy three course meal with accompanying drinks. This is also a meme so don’t forget to check if you’ve been tagged!

My pre dinner drink would be a Green Monkey cocktail which is vodka, midori, triple sec and tonic water. It’s a drink I discovered when I worked at a country club and is lovely, my second favourite cocktail in the world, read on to find out what my number one fave is

For starter I would have Jamie Oliver’s Candied Bacon Salad from his Jamie’s America book, it’s fairly light and would leave plenty of space for my main course.

My main course would be the New York Striploin from The Flying Fish Cafe at Disneyworld. It’s the best steak I’ve ever eaten, and also the largest (coincidentally with the largest steak knife).

To accompany my main course I’d have a Strawberry Daquiri, there’s no doubt that the American’s do these the best – strong and sweet!

My desert would be Creme Brullee specifically the one I had in Peebles Hydro. I like my creme brullee to still be runny beneath the crispy sugar top and theirs was perfect!

To accompany my desert I’d have a Tia Maria with ice.

Then of course a large glass of Baileys with lots of ice and after dinner mints, oh and maybe an Ultimate Mudslide from TGI Friday’s.

Of course after all that alcohol I would be completely legless (!) because you know I don’t really drink.

Now I tag Sticky Fingers Tara , English Mum, Liz @Livingwithkids and TheMadHouse and @andy69 (via @LauraAWNTYM’s blog) to share their fantasy three course meal with drinks

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By Little Mummy, March 26, 2010 12:41 am

Ages ago I was sent a huge pile of lovely Green and Black’s chocolate, I was going to wait until I’d eaten the whole lot before writing my post but I still have two whole bars left. No, I can’t believe how restrained I’ve been either!

Here’s what I thought of some of the flavours;

Dark 70% – Initial flavour is deep and bitter but by using the tasting techniques provided by Green and Blacks I actually experienced a new tangy almost fruity flavour.

White – I absolutely love the white chocolate, in my opinion it is the best white chocolate on the market. It’s thick and creamy with loads of vanilla seeds, it sorts out the sweet tooth a treat.

Butterscotch – I found this one ok but a bit sweet for me, it was the only bar my husband really liked.

Dark with Cherries – This one is fairly bitter but I found a square or two with a cup coffee rounded of my dinner nicely.

Almond – I love the chocolate and nut combo, and this one was nice but I still prefer my chocolate with hazelnut.

I still have creamy milk and mayan gold left, I’ll be savouring every bit

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By Little Mummy, March 20, 2010 3:10 pm

I like goats cheese but only the crumbly variety, welsh goats cheese is my favourite. I quite fancy trying this parsnip and goats cheese salad.

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By Little Mummy, February 26, 2010 12:28 am

The actual name for this dish is ‘Chicken stuffed with mozzarella wrapped in Parma Ham with italian tomato sauce and seared asparagus’ which is a bit of a mouthful and way too long for the title box in wordpress. I made this for lunch on Wednesday and was gloating on twitter so I thought I’d share it with you.

The Sauce

The sauce can be used as a pizza base, pasta sauce or with chicken so my advice is to make a batch like I did.

Ingredients

2 x Cans of chopped tomatoes
Hand ful of Parmesan
2 x spring onion
5 x garlic cloves
Handful of Basil
Handful of Parsley
3 drops tabasco
Black Pepper
Sea Salt

Let’s not get fancy, you pretty much whack everything in a pot cook it for a bit and blend. You can’t really go wrong.

For the Chicken

Slice chicken breasts lengthways, stuff with mozzarella and wrap in parma ham. Bake in oven at 200 celsius for half an hour. Slice chicken before serving making sure chicken is piping hot through.

For the Asparagus

Just sear it on a griddle with olive oil

Serve it

Dollop a ladle of sauce onto plate, slice chicken once across centre (as shown in pic) and let mozzarella ooze. Place asparagus beside and serve it.

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By Little Mummy, February 14, 2010 8:46 am

Well, here’s our effort. Certainly not the prettiest but maybe we’ll gain a few marks for the spotty plate from chief judge Englishmum.

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By Little Mummy, February 7, 2010 11:54 pm

I’ve made this a couple times now adjusting the recipe until I got this. Make sure when you cook the chicken that you wait until the skin has crisped up, nothing worse than flabby chicken skin.

Marinade the chicken for a couple of hours in the following, I used a pack of 12 large wings;

Cayenne or chilli powder – half teaspoon
Garlic – 3 or 4 cloves crushed
Coriander – Chop a handful
Cumin – half teaspoon
Chilli – quarter teaspoon (but add to taste)
Brown sugar – two teaspoons
Onion – chopped fine
Dried herbs – half teaspoon
Nutmeg – half teaspoon
Cajun seasoning – two teaspoons
Oil – A couple of slugs

Cook in the oven at 200 for 25-30 mins or until skin is crispy and chicken cooked.

Serve with lemon wedges and this soured cream dip;

Sour cream – small pot
Sea salt
Squeeze of lemon juice
Spring onion finely chopped
Coriander finely chopped

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By Little Mummy, December 15, 2009 2:03 am

I love our annual trip to Edinburgh’s Winter Wonderland. There’s ice skating, a big wheel and even a helter skelter but I don’t go for any of that, I go for the food. The German market and Highland market have the most delicious food, Alex and I made our pilgrimmage on Sunday.

As you approach the markets from Princes St (our equivalent of Oxford) you can see the twinkly lights and smell the sweet and savoury delights ahead. Ignore the naff van selling chips and candy floss and head into the wooden hut village erected especially at the end of November, wander through and on your right hand side you’ll see huge heart shaped biscuits and candied almonds and cashews. Further on, German chocolate and cakes and at the end of the lane a hut selling a potatoes, bacon and onion dish and hot punch which is called fire something or other, it’s all you can smell at that end. Around the corner huge hot dogs and cups of hot chocolate followed by mini donuts. Across the way a ‘health food’ stall that looks desolate.

Turn right into a little throughway and the Highland Market opens up before you. There’s a small hut shredding whole roast hogs and serving them on morning rolls with bramley apple sauce, they were delicious. The same stall was also selling huge venison burgers and next door was cooking up the Scottish favourite haggis. A small street cart against a tree were toasting chestnuts and handing them out in ten pence mixture bags, I’ve always wondered what chestnuts taste like, maybe next year. We wandered past the Aberdeen Angus hut where they were grilling huge handmade burgers.

Finally we doubled back on ourselves and headed for the Belgian waffle stand where we ordered two waffles with lashings of melted nutella thank you very much. As we stood huddled in the freezing cold savouring the waffles there was a momentary power failure and we were plunged into darkness thankfully someone put the plug back in and we were back to the warm twinkly atmosphere in no time.

Photo by Flickr user Jungleboy