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Recipe #8 – Farfalle Genovese

September7

Recipe #8 - Farfalle Genovese

A quick and easy dinner, certainly 20 minute worthy!

I’m loving learning more about ingredients as much as the cooking/preparation itself and I had no idea what farfalle were. Google to the rescue again… basically for the uniformed (myself included!) it is a ‘bow-tie’ style pasta, the name in Italian I believe translates into ‘butterfly’, more specifically the female of the species. Read the rest of this entry »


Recipe #3 – Bacon and asparagus pappardelle

September3

Recipe #3 – Bacon and asparagus pappardelle

Right, so it’s Friday night, knackered from the weeks activities and seriously thinking about ordering take-out… but I pull myself together and think of the greater good of a home cooked meal, problem, what to eat… I don’t feel like going to the shops and yet another outing. Solution, scavenge fridge/cupboard contents for ingredients… low and behold, we have a meal in the making! Read the rest of this entry »


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Let’s start at the beginning shall we…

August31

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If you are reading this I’ve successfully launched this BLOG and the worlds super computers didn’t explode while doing so (check one for certain death avoided!).

The WHAT is pretty clear (just read the sidebar), the WHY to most might be obtuse.

I’m a Husband and recently became a first time Father and it took my sons arrival to give me a much needed ‘wake up’ call.

I used to clock in 12-16 hours days for WEEKS on end in my role as producer/engineer (it sounds glamorous, it really isn’t), but I didn’t realize how much time it consumed. Read the rest of this entry »


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