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CHRISTMAS RECIPES

Spiced Kinderglühwein punch, a wintry German tradition

Every year from late November to early January, Germans enjoy having some warm Glühwein! It's such a festive drink, and there would be no holiday season without it. So, since moving to Germany, we have joined in the tradition, and love making our own Glühwein at home during the colder months. It is a little ...

CHRISTMAS RECIPES

Spiced Christmas Cookies - the perfect advent bake!

These slightly spiced Christmas cookies are a family favourite over advent in our house and they are so much fun to make with the children - particularly when it comes to rolling them into balls or coating in the icing sugar! The delicate spices and buttery richness transports me to a Christmas market covered in ...

COOK BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

What's Cooking at 10 Garden Street - A delightful cookbook for kids that also tells a story!

As a child growing up, I was privileged enough to be raised by a village. My mother was intentional about raising me among diverse groups of people. This also meant that I was exposed to diverse foods. To this day, a good dal or pancit is comfort food to me. I learned from an early ...

CHRISTMAS RECIPES

The best Swedish gingerbread recipe and a handy shortcut!

Gingerbread baking is an activity we all truly look forward to in our house. Every family needs a good gingerbread recipe, and if you ask me, this is the very best. Passed down along generations of Swedish grandmothers to mothers to daughters and granddaughters, until it finally ended up with my friend, who shared it ...

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Smokey baba ghanoush -- the perfect quick snack!

I love everything about dips -- not only are there endless flavour combinations but they are also packed full of nutrients and hugely versatile. They make the perfect quick snack but also have the potential to transform simple vegetables or meat into the most beautiful meal. I always try to have one or two in ...

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Homemade Boston Beans

I absolutely adore this recipe and even more so at this time of year when it reminds me of dark autumn evenings and bonfire nights from my childhood when we ate this hurriedly before heading out to see fireworks! You could make the beans by themselves and serve simply on toast but I love them ...

HALLOWEEN CELEBRATIONS

Brown-Butter Maple Popcorn -- perfect for all of Autumn's parties

We have been celebrating Halloween for weeks, because, why not? First we did these super simple and very effective oversized spiderwebs, and since then we have been layering decorations. We added in our pumpkins from last year. Our children love to dress up regardless of the season, so we just decided to make some of ...

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Simple "No Waste" Honey Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Last week we got 3 "pumpkin pie" pumpkins in our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) allotment, which meant we had a LOT of pumpkin seeds. The fall weather and the surplus of seeds gave us the perfect opportunity to make roasted pumpkin seeds! If you don't like waste and love a quick project that creates ...

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Cranberry and Orange Scones -- a sugar free breakfast and tea time treat!

These Cranberry and Orange scones are an instant hit! We made them early one morning while on holiday, and the scent of the cranberry and orange baking away in the oven filled our home with happiness. Honestly, it is that warming and delicious of a scent! Great for an Autumn or Winter weekend but just ...

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Two ingredient chewy caramels -- quick to make and so delicious!

Hello everyone, it's Nomi , I know you have seen me around here writing about sourdough bread and pizza, but I am thrilled to announce that from now on I will be a regular contributor to the Babyccino blog. I love nature and crafts, baking and making, cooking and living with the seasons. If you ...

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Spiced Apple and Honey Cake -- a favourite autumnal treat!

This Spiced Apple and Honey Cake is one of our favourites and the girls love getting involved and crowning it with the apple slices and drizzling over the honey. The recipe is really quick and versatile and you can use whichever flour you have to hand -- plain will give you a lighter bouncy sponge, ...

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Vegetable Bolognese, seriously delicious and packed full of vegetables!

This ragu is seriously, seriously delicious, packed full of vegetables and extremely straightforward to make - in fact its one of my chuck it all into the pot and pop it in the oven recipes! I've never been that convinced with vegetable bolognese in the past but this recipe has completely converted me. It’s also ...

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Crab Linguine -- a weeknight win!

Often seafood suppers seem complicated, and a bit pricey. But we have perfected a Crab Linguine pasta dish this summer that we had to share with you. It is easy to make, takes less than 15 minutes, and feeds the whole family a healthy dinner. I would also love it for a big family Sunday ...

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Shortbread! Indulgent, irresistible, and so easy to make...

We went to Scotland for a week long holiday which I will share more about soon! But within a few days of being there I immediately craved Scottish shortbread. I mean, are we even in Scotland if we don't have shortbread? So on our first rainy day, we made the very best of the weather ...

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Overnight Refrigerator Pickles

Just last week I received a large amount of small cucumbers in my weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) allotment. I decided to make pickles because I knew that we would never be able to eat 20 cucumbers before they went bad. Everyone in my family loves pickles. My husband particularly loves dill. I knew we ...

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Sourdough pizza recipe -- best recipe, tried and tested by Nomi!

My friend Nomi (@mrsnomi on Instagram if you don't follow her already!) already shared her homemade sourdough bread recipe with us a couple of years ago. I started making sourdough bread after Nomi shared a bit of her starter with me, and her recipe is the one I loyally use. It's easy, failproof, and results ...

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Your new favourite, easy peasy, allergy-friendly chocolate fudge cake

For our first playdate since lockdown has eased in the UK, I decided to bake a little chocolate cake with Joey to celebrate. I fancied a delicious, light, fudgy chocolate sponge cake, that was easy to rustle up with a 3-year-old's help, and that everyone could enjoy. The tricky thing was working around the dietary requirements ...

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Blueberry Crumble Muffins. One of my favorite recipes to make!

Hello friends! I had planned a post for you about the issues happening in the States right now. I wrote it and rewrote it, but I couldn’t find the words to express what is on my mind. It is all so overwhelming. So now that will be another post for another day… This weekend I ...

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Libyan Sharba, my favourite dish for a big family iftar

My father is proudly from Ghariyan, a mountain town, 100km south of Tripoli, Libya. 46 years in Britain has never shaken his love for home, and with it comes the most delicious cuisine which he often cooks up for us all. Today I share with you quite possibly my favourite (so hard to choose!): Libyan ...

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Wild Garlic Pesto -- foraging for a delicious meal!

Welcome to another recipe using yummy foraged finds! Making sure they are very safe to eat, from a healthy, clean place is the first rule for foraging of course. But we loved finding this food from the wild and made a very large batch of wild garlic pesto. We have had numerous meals -- adding ...

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Dandelion Honey - an abundant flower honey that is vegan friendly, foraging fun and very easy to make

Foraging is fun! And this is a delightful and easy recipe that the talented Emily Hogarth shared recently on Instagram and inspired us with. Dandelion Honey -- vegan friendly, easy to make, inexpensive to make, and fun to collect. It is a super lovely way to add to yoghurt or dress up French Toast or pancakes! All ...

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Rainbow Pasta! Such a fun family activity.

Pasta and comfort food go hand-in-hand... so why not bring smiles to faces and make a day out of this delicious family meal. Have a great big pasta making party! We had a 4th birthday and pasta making party with Pasta 'n Play for my son (before London's lockdown) and it was an enormous hit. ...

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Cinnamon Crunch Muffins

We love the combination of cinnamon and brown sugar, so at the weekend when we had plenty of time on our hands, we took a traditional recipe for a plain muffin base and played around until we perfected this cinnamon crunch muffin. They are so delicious we managed to polish off the whole batch over ...

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