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[22 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
Adventures of a novice foodie

Whilst I’ve been off I’ve been making the most of having time to prepare fresh food. It’s all too easy to moan that there is no point when you’re cooking for one (some days I am an expert at moaning!). However it’s a rubbish excuse, and I’m well aware there’s nothing to stop me freezing leftovers – two (or more) meals for the price of one!
As luck, or fate, or whatever you believe in, would happen I stumbled upon Jo’s Kitchen last weekend and discovered a treasure trove of recipes …

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[17 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]
The return of the cakes

Thanks to being ill there has been a distinct lack of proper Cake Friday activity over the past few weeks. But now I am back at work and it is Friday! This is what I have been enjoying today…

and for those of you who missed the glory of Good Cake Friday last week here is one of my mother’s wonderful butterfly cakes…

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[27 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Nothing will stop me

Faced with the dilemma of being housebound and missing out on a Cake Friday drastic measures and creativity were needed… so here it is… Jaffa Cake Friday thanks to two M&S Jaffas that had previously managed to hide and avoid consumption!

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[20 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Sesame Street comes to Durham

This week it was Iain’s turn to bake cakes for Cake Friday in the library, and he did us proud. Cake Friday raised £50 for Sesame Workshop and Butterwick Children’s Hospice.

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[8 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
The one with the Cupcakes

I have, on occasion, been accused of being slightly competitive. I just think I have a natural tendency to want to achieve. Whatever the motivation I may have taken ‘Cake Friday’ a little too seriously. For those of you familiar with Friends I may have been akin to Monica. Considering I am living in a new city where my greatest hope of nurturing friendships is in work, I perhaps shouldn’t have been flaunting my crazy credentials so openly.
However as I am new to Library Land, this was my first chance …