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[ 5 Oct 2009 | 9 Comments ]
Baked Sweet Potatoes

I’m loving the autumn and I’ve been enjoying doing loads of cooking, welded flapjacks, coleslaw, spicy carrot soup, homemade ketchup and these baked sweet potatoes.
The idea came from a mexican restaurant dish, it makes a lovely light autumn supper.
Ingredients
Sweet Potato
Coriander
Hot Salsa
Mozzarella
Sour Cream
1. Bake the sweet potato in foil as you would a potato. The sweet potato will cook quicker than a potato, and will take 40 mins – 1 hour, give it a squeeze, if it’s soft remove the foil and crisp up for a further 20 mins.
2. …

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[ 30 Sep 2009 | 7 Comments ]
Homemade Coleslaw

Making coleslaw is a bit of a family tradition, my nan makes it for family parties along with homemade sausage rolls. My mum used to make it occasionallly, both recipes involved quite a bit of mayonnaise, tomato puree and ketchup, which I always thought was quite odd but it always tasted good. I’d like to think this is my updated version, with a little less fat and absolutely no ketchup, I hate the stuff.
Ingredients
A White cabbage
5 Carrots
1 Red onion
1 Leek
4 pots of low fat yoghurt
3 Tbsp Mayonnaise
1 tsp …