off to university, friends found it rather odd that I boiled bones for stock, so I thought that it might Once the stock is fully steeped, fish out the bits.

unfortunately this is where reproducibility falls down, but sniff around your spice rack and see what you feel might I decided to char the cabbage and leeks a bit, you can pull them off sooner if you'd rather. 3)Add spices I am afraid this might be a regular occurrence though, so get used to it. I should just have cut the cabbage shreds a bit shorter as Someone found them a bit difficult with only

As mentioned in Day 48 of The Challenge This was a bit of an experiment. The most recent victim (a very willing, tasty one I might add) was fried rice. We also decided that this was the week to introduce shellfish to Little Bit, so shrimp went in to. It came out very tasty, and was greatly enjoyed by all involved (although Little Bit was a tad confused

They need a bit of cooking, usually boiling (I tried roasting one and it sort of worked) to make them Some lemon juice might also work. Let me know what you think!

true love gave to me eleven Almond Crescents, ten Christmas Butter Balls, nine Greek Apple Cookies, eight

tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ten Christmas Butter Balls, nine Greek Apple Cookies, eight

original recipe but I didn't do it and the cookies didn't suffer - allow to dry out for 5 hours or over night

I feel that we hit the right flavour notes. as with most things recently, I would normally have made it hotter, but Little Bit's spice tolerance isn't very high.

to have all the know-how about using spices, and which to add when in order to layer flavours that I might I wanted to test the properties of fenugreek seeds a bit more, we had a pumpkin that needed using, and I thought it might go well with the sweeter spices that I wanted to use. I had intended to toast the seeds instead of frying them, but was distracted by Little Bit's dinner, It did have a bit of a dry tongue after effect though. I am wondering if that was the fenugreek.

I initially had other plans for last night's dinner, but it was snowing harder and harder, and my original I rooted around in the pantry and grabbed a number of bits and pieces, and that was the basis of the Add the red pepper and bacon and cook for a few more minutes until the bacon bits are cooked on the outside The only oddity really is that the cabbage turned some of the other bits, like the cheese and potato,