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This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Apple Crumble
Today is the 11th anniversary of my husband and I getting together. It happened on Bonfire Night, after walking to the Radcliffe Arms pub for dinner with our friends and watching the fireworks being set off in back gardens all … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, bonfire, cinnamon, crumble, dessert, food, guy fawkes, recipe, vegetarian
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Bonfire Night Party – Chili and Baked Potatoes
Remember remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder season should ever be forgot.
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Tagged baked potato, beans, bonfire, chicken, chili, food, guy fawkes, onion, poultry, recipe, sparklers, stew, tomato
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The Wednesday Tipple – Hot Toddies for a cold Bonfire Night
It’s nearly Bonfire Night, the perfect time to get stuck into drinks that are as warming for the inside as they are on the outside and write the name of secret crushes in a trail of light from a sparkler. … Continue reading
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Tagged apple cider, bonfire, clove, cocktail, food, frangelico, guy fawkes, hot chocolate, hot toddie, hot toddy, orange, port, recipe, sausage, steaming bishop, vodka
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The Monday Treat – All Souls celebrate with mournful black caviar and sour cream on top of mini potato rosti
Before Moving to New York, Jon and I lived in Warsaw, where Halloween wasn’t such a big deal, but All Souls, the day after Halloween, really, really was. The entire city seemed to migrate to the graveyards and embark upon … Continue reading
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – The Theatre Ghost – followed by Witches Hair and Sea Monster Spaghetti
I read somewhere that in New York City the present is so powerful that the past fades away and is lost, but not so for my friend Bob the costume man. “I’ve been on Broadway since Cats was Kittens,†he … Continue reading
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Tagged calamari, haunted theatre, pasta, recipe, sea monster, seafood, shellfish, shrimp, theatre ghost, witch
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5 Sweet Halloween treats including Oozing Pus Chocolate Cup Cakes and Worms in Dirt.
Oozing-Pus Chocolate Cup Cakes (makes 6 – 8 portions) These are molten white chocolate truffle cup cakes by any other name, and the warm white chocolate really does ooze pus-like from the centre when they are cut open – the … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – devils on horseback, some in a suitcase, and frozen cantaloupe martinis
“Can I take a look in your purse?†asked the security man outside Ricky’s. I’d been on a quest for glow in the dark vampire teeth to send to godson Arthur (what else?), but was leaving empty handed. Nevertheless, a … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, canteloupe, costume, devils on horseback, halloween, martini, melon, prune, recipe, Ricky's
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The Monday treat – spicy pumpkin soup and a new, not-so-spicy-pumpkin hair do
So I was going for Mad Men red hair, but as I sat in front of the mirror in the leather and essential oil themed salon sipping my cup of vanilla chai, I wasn’t absolutely convinced. “It’s going to totally … Continue reading
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Tagged mad men, pumpkin, recipe, soup, Thanksgiving, vegetarian
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This dinner will get you laid – The ghosts of boyfriends past flee at the sight of autumn risotto with butternut squash and Madeira soaked golden sultanas
Browsing for Halloween costumes in Ricky’s, Adam and I discussed what we would be this year. I was thinking some kind of generic mourner, since I have black lace gloves and a hat with a veil already. Adam was considering … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, boyfriend, butternut squash, ghost, halloween, recipe, risotto, rosemary, vegetarian, Venice
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The Wednesday Tipple – Warm Bourbon and Milk Punch (and ginger chocolate chip cookies)
Among the many myths about this great city of New York, one of the most enduring is that of crocodiles living in the sewers. Over the summer this story was given a new lease of life when a crocodile / … Continue reading
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Tagged biscuit, bourbon, cat, chocolate, cookie, crocodile, ghost, ginger, milk, office, recipe, snack, urban myth
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