Saffron, mushroom and carrot pilaf-style rice

Here's a recipe I created to use up an excess of carrots. Just noting it down here so I can remember the ingredients to re-create it again another time. I've learnt the hard way that with baking, it is crucial to use exact measurements but thankfully for cooking something like...

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Refined sugar-free carrot cake

Whilst sorting out my paperwork the other day, I came across several dozen scraps of paper with various recipe notes scribbled on them. Presumably recipes I created, experimented with, baked,or planned to bake. None had titles and none had sufficient detail to make sense of. So...

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Sugar Plum Fairy Afternoon Tea at The Waldorf Hilton

Anyone who knows our Miss T, will know that she's not just "T" by name but "tea" by nature as one of her favourite experiences ever is having afternoon tea. From the afternoon teas she's had at the Royal Kensington Hotel when she was younger (which you can read about here and...

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January 2020 Unboxing video

Well here we are again for the 3rd month in a row of doing an unboxing video! Still dislike being in the videos and my kids still say they are the most boring videos ever but I'm finding it a great way of keeping track of wins as they arrive, used in combination with my prize win spreadsheet. We've got a couple of extra things that haven't made it into the video so will...

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