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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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The Simplest Cornbread -- a super easy store-cupboard recipe, ready in just one step!
I have been making this cornbread in various forms since I started to wean my eldest daughter and its been especially useful recently with ingredients being scarce or hard to track down. This is the very basic recipe - ready in just one step! It is so unbelievably easy and versatile and can easily be ...
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Chewy chocolate chip cookies - a little treat during this strange time
We've had a full-on week with home learning (as you all have I imagine) and managed to survive (just) the week in the house together. But this morning I felt we all needed a little time out from the work and we did maths through baking by making these delicious cookies. They were out of ...
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Blueberry Dump Cake -- satisfyingly simple
Ready for this recipe which is easy as pie, and makes a delicious cake? :) Then make room in your day for this Blueberry Dump Cake. It is literally made with ingredients dumped into a bowl, then dumped into a greased skillet, and then baked in the oven. It takes about five minutes to make ...
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Sweet Potato + Maple Pancakes
Pancake Day is my absolute favourite Tuesday of the year... my only concern is whether to go sweet or savoury?! I have a life long and enduring love of classic crepes doused in sugar and lemon but more recently I find I just can't resist (and could eat pretty much any time of the day) ...
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Elda’s deliciously crispy Albanian Byrek
It is one thing to have lovely neighbours – very much a blessing in life. It is another thing all together when those lovely neighbours become wonderful friends, your children adore each other and they welcome you into their home to teach you how to make Albanian food! My sweet friend, Griselda - Elda ...
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Sunshine in a Jar -- Make your own Marmalade!
This is the very best way to cheer up a grey day. It truly is sunshine in a jar, and any marmalade maker will tell you that homemade marmalade is sooo much better than anything store bought. So I thought this was our year to give it a try. I will not sell this as ...
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5 tips for substituting dairy out of baking recipes
Do you have tried-and-tested baking recipes that you love, but that contain dairy when you need to bake for a non-dairy eating friend / family? Have you tried substituting ingredients in the past, but the recipe has ended disastrously? Rest easy, I’ve been in this position for years, working for clients who demand a recipe ...
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Cauliflower Tikka Masala -- oven-baked in 30 minutes
This recipe combines two of my favourite things: Indian spices and oven-baking! The recipe uses a very straightforward homemade curry paste which might sound a bit daunting and time intensive but I assure you this is super easy, ready in 5 minutes and so worth it! You could substitute in other vegetables such as pumpkin ...
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