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A few years ago if you had offered me oats for breakfast I would have said "no thank you". But now, any winter morning is good for oats. Dave and I were watching a program on Glen Grant Distillery which is in Scotland, and the master distiller stated that whisky is a good drink after … Continue reading Whisky Oats
They say that change is as good as a holiday, and so after more than 20 years of making the same granola recipe I decided to change things, but only slightly. This Toasted Muesli is the result! Dave and I are really creatures of habit when it comes to breakfast. Every morning when we arrive at … Continue reading Toasted Muesli
You will never buy bacon again after making this home cured pork belly. I vowed when I gave up smoking that I would never become an ugly non smoker and that I would always remain a tolerant ex smoker. However, this has not been the case. We have a friend who is the most selfish smoker … Continue reading Home Cured Pork Belly | Bacon
The other morning we woke up to discover that the water had been turned off at home due to some work that the water department was doing on the pipes down the road. Thankfully I had water in the upstairs kettle as I do not get out of bed without a cup of coffee inside … Continue reading Peanut Butter And Chocolate Rusks
I am not good at breakfast! I tend to eat fruit to stave off the hunger until I really feel like eating a bowl of granola or making myself two soft boiled eggs with my egg boiler. Then the other day I took rusks to work and I decided that it was a great snack to have … Continue reading Coconut And Cranberry Rusks
Every morning I have fruit for breakfast. Sometimes it is something as simple as an apple, and other times I actually make myself a fruit salad. I would love to juice every morning but I seem to often run out of time. The one thing that I can enjoy every morning is a smoothie. I … Continue reading Kiwi And Strawberry Smoothie
I made banana crumpets as my choice for The Secret Recipe Club. At the end of January, two things happened which were serendipitous. The first was that when I went to get my daily banana out of the fruit bowl, I noticed that all of them were over ripe. Our summer days are very … Continue reading Banana Crumpets
I am sure everyone has their own way of making this breakfast. However, I have decided to share my recipe for scrambled eggs regardless. Head straight on to the Recipe For ♥ Scrambled Eggs ♥ I am sometimes confused about how people survive in their particular industries! I use this as an example: seeking x … Continue reading Scrambled Eggs
I am really spoilt with kitchen gadgets galore and so I seldom bother to make anything other than boiled eggs. I have an egg boiler and all you do is prick the egg, add the water, cover, switch it on and hey presto, with the ringing of a bell, boiled eggs. Some weekends scrambled eggs … Continue reading Poached Eggs
I have a handwritten recipe for cranberry and oat slices that I must have copied down when at a friend a long time ago. If it had been done in the past two years I would have made a note from where I copied it, as I do not want to copy other people's recipes … Continue reading Cranberry And Oat Slices
I love making these Moroccan eggs for breakfast when we have guests - you do not have to watch over them constantly and they never fail to please. I use my tagine to make them and have discovered that the concept for this dish originated in Tunisia. The cumin is key to the flavour of … Continue reading Moroccan Eggs | Shakshouka
I have posted this recipe on my food24 blog and it does not work if you tweak it too much, as my friend Zabwan discovered. I was not going to use this recipe again for the challenge, as the aim is to make something new. But, yesterday I tried a recipe from the Vital Club … Continue reading Berry Bars
As I had to use the bottle of truffles we bought back from Italy within three days, we had a feast of truffles in all our meals for the weekend. Sunday breakfast was a beautiful truffle omelette served just like this: there are many perfect ways of making an omelette. I use two eggs per … Continue reading Truffle Omelette
As I am sucrose intolerant I find it easier to make my own breakfast cereal than read all the ingredients on all the packets of muesli's available in the supermarkets. This granola is by no means the cheaper option, but it is the healthier choice. I have been making this granola recipe for so long … Continue reading Granola | Easy To Make At Home