Chocolate and strawberries is one of my favourite combinations. I love the smooth chocolate to cover the juicy strawberry. For me it’s my ultimate summer dessert. One of the fruits Britain does best is strawberries and I always remember summers …
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Strawberry and Lemonade Ice Lollies
Ice lollies in the summer months must be one of my son Ted’s favourite sweet treats. Ted is seven, nearly eight and I don’t know what he would do if all the treats in the world disappeared. My son, no …
Googie’s Kitchen presents Chickpea and Roasted Aubergine Curry
My husband Howard and son Ted are not great fans of chickpeas. Ted when he was about three or four went through a stage of loving these little balls of nourishment but nowadays he’s not so keen. Therefore I’m always …
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Googie’s Kitchen presents Slightly Spicy Quinoa Risotto with Cannellini Beans
Beans, beans they make you ‘windy’, the more you eat the more you will windy pops! Even though I do love us eating beans during the week I do find our house to have strong winds passing through momentarily after …
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Caramelised Strawberries and Mint with Coconut Cream and Maple Syrup
Wimbledon is a tennis tournament that happens every Summer in the UK. It starts at the end of June and finishes in the first week of July. At this tournament it is traditional to eat strawberries and cream. As I …
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Googie’s Kitchen presents Lavender Limeade
Lavender is normally associated with essential oil and hot baths but not cooking. So when I saw it on a menu at the beginning of the year I was really intrigued as to how it tasted. The dish I was …
Lavender Hot Choc
My lovely husband Howard or Hozza to his friends made my son and I a delicious hot chocolate. A few years ago I decided to post the recipe to my blog. I named it Hozza’s Hot Chocolate after the person …
White Bean Meatballs with Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Pasta Sauce
Recently I’ve been learning a lot about dried beans. I know it’s probably not the most interesting subject to most people but I have discovered a few facts that amazed me. I’ve not only learnt about the health benefits of …
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Slow Cooked Thai Green Lentil Curry
My husband Howard and son Ted aren’t the biggest fans of lentils. Therefore I’m always trying to invent new recipes. A daily dose of fibre can help to protect the body from diabetes and colon cancer. Lentils are one food …
Black Bean Chilli Soup
Dried beans are an ingredient I have never really experimented with until now. A little while ago I would have brought any kind of beans in a tin. In recent years I have been increasing the amount of vegan or …
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