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Swiss Bircher Muesli & other Thanksgiving Breakfast Ideas

I’m just me. I don’t have an Aunt Betty, so I can’t present you with her famous cranberry cobbler…neither do I have an Uncle Bert or Joe, to wow you with his beer-basted, flame grilled whole turkey, ready in just under X hours! Welcome to my world…and my thoughts for Thanksgiving.

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Scottish High Tea – fact or fable?

Does this really exist? As in Scottish High tea? Or is this another adorable Scottish  fable….like the Haggis sheep?  Personally, I don’t know what to make of it…considering that when I did a Google search, I got a mix of responses.  One, which had me reeling with laughter. Perhaps it does exist…after all…and is not a mere...

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The best chocolate wholewheat waffles, ever!

So after blogging about my excitement about my sushi class yesterday morning…my daughter demanded chocolate waffles. It was 10 o’clock when I started… and time seemed to go on for ever…till I looked at the clock to see it was almost eleven. If I didn’t run out of the house (via the bathroom), I would...

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Almost the ‘Full English’…. in a tart

Who has a good memory? ‘Me’, I said out loud – ‘I have a good memory’! But the minute the words were out of my mouth, I looked around the class of 20+ people…to see I was the only one with hand raised. The same hand, which moments later started slipping down to the amusement of the...

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French Toast, all jazzed up

Do you ever make a particular recipe till everyone is fed up? As in completely, totally fed up. For instance my husband doesn’t want to see Salmon with his two eyes. I’ve over-cooked it (not texture wise) – but cooked it too many times, different ways but still enough for him to be totally bored with...