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Slow cooker hot chocolate

Can you wait this long for a delicious hot chocolate. Great if you are of for a winters walk and want to come home to a warm and...

Pimm’s ice lollies

A splash of fruity Pimm's turns these refreshing strawberry, cucumber and mint lollies into a grown-up treat Ingredients 500g...

Sunshine lollies

A combination of orange, satsuma and carrot make these refreshing lollies a low-calorie treat. They're also vegan, gluten-free and sure...

Guava & passion fruit lollies

Keep the kids cool this summer with these simple - and refreshingly healthy - ice lollies Ingredients 300 ml passion fruit juice 300ml...

Fresh orange lollies

Use the whole orange for these lollies, rather than just the juice, and with the addition of fresh pear you get extra nutrients. A great...

Gluten Free Spanish meatball & butter bean stew

This hearty one-pot is full of Mediterranean flavour, with pork, red onion, peppers and smoked paprika - an impressive 4 of your 5 a day....

Apple & walnut cake with treacle icing

Saw this recipe on my favourite site BBC Goodfood Recipes looks great I must try it. This easy all-in-one cake is perfect if you've got...

Cobnut & apple loaf cake

This loaf cake is simple and seasonal, using fresh autumnal cobnuts and apples, topped with dreamy dulce de leche. Ingredients 75g...

Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients 750g/1lb 10oz pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cut into chunks 350g sweet shortcrust pastry plain flour, for...

Three Autumn Soups

Soup so warming to come home to this time of year so I have added 2 for today Ingredients1 tbsp vegetable oil50g butter1 onion, finely chopp

Squidgy pumpkin & ginger loaf

Ingredients250g chunk of pumpkinor squash flesh (the scoopings from your Halloween pumpkin are perfect) 50g black treacle140g golden syrup14

Creamy chicken & pumpkin

Lovely and creamy and with pumpkin (if you are a lover of this vegetable) this is a dish you will enjoy. Ingredients20g pack dried porcini1

Cassoulet of bacon & Toulouse sausage with confit pheasant

This is defiantly an Autumn meal..

Simple Baked Apples

Its that time of year when we have a glut of apples so here is a nice warming desert of shall we say comfort food. Ingredients1 h 30 m12 ser

Cheesy autumn mushrooms

I love mushrooms, hope you do as well Ingredients 4 large field mushrooms100g gorgonzola or other blue cheese, crumbled25g walnuts, toasted

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COOKING TIPS

You do not have to be stressed at Christmas if the idea of cooking for family and friends is just all to much you can buy everything you need at most supermarkets, just pop in the oven no preparation sit back and enjoy a glass of champagne (you can either ban all from your kitchen so they think your amazing, or tell them that it all comes from whichever store you choose so you could spend more time with them. NO SHAME IN THAT.

Whole herbs and spices last longer than crushed or ground versions

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Test freshness of herbs by moving some around in your hand and sniffing to see if spice gives off flavorful aroma

Generally speaking 1 cup fresh herbs = 1/3 cup dried as the dried spices have more intense flavor

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Decorating your cake

use gingerbread Christmas trees, a house and hearts (you’ll need about 15 hearts for the outside). To decorate, mix 300g fondant icing sugar with enough water to make a thick icing, transfer to a piping bag fitted with a fine nozzle. Decorate however you like, then leave to dry. Place the trees and house on top of the cake and push the hearts into the icing.

Only one tin?

If you have just 1 x 20cm cake tin, you can easily divide the cake mixture into three and bake the sponges in batches. Work in metric measurements as they are easier to scale down for this recipe, and write the new measurements out before you start, so you don’t get mixed up halfway through.

A little bit about me ..Celia Loves Wine , Fast Cars and Travel and Any Thing New.

Rock Music and Jazz, the Classics and Bocelli, In love with Commissario Montalbano - alias Luca Zingaretti (more about him later)

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A Challenge, Dancing in the Rain, A Cool Glass of Beer, All Thing Shiny & Sparkly , Mad Hats and Mad Shoes