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Recipe Rifle goes shopping: Spring Fashion
The problem with all fashion, no matter who you are or what you do, is trying to make it work for you - for who you are and what your life is like.There are also levels of fashionability. I simply do...
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Courgetti and bolognese
Now that my kids are set square on the path of growing up, we are none of us stuck in a non-speaking, non-walking hell, no-one is pregnant, no-one is postpartum, I can feel myself regressing, going...
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Bircher museli for Charlie Potter
I had a very nice email recently from a reader seeking advice. My favourite kind of reader email, really - actually asking my opinion. It gives me licence to take a deep breath and just go on and on...
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Aga Dundee Cake
A thing I find a bit frustrating about having people round is Shy Guest Disorder. You know what I mean, the sort of people who come in apologising for something, (it's never clear exactly what), and...
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Buffalo wings for the boyz
I'm going to try hard in the next few years not to become the Woman Who Has Forgotten.It's already starting to go, to fade - you know... the horror.I remember the nightmare of two children under 3, in...
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Pancakes 2.0
One of the things that has made me think it's time to let this blog go is that I keep re-visiting old recipes. I have started to do the thing that has always panicked me in conversation with others and...
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Mixed vegetables and yoghurt with green chilli oil
Of course, for all my new-life evangelical shit about how my kids are all so easy now and we're in the broad sunlit uplands and so on, it sort of only applies at home.Going on holiday with two children...
View ArticleBest of... the comments
Genuinely the best thing about writing this blog for the last six years has been you. No, really - YOU. All of you. Thank you. But particularly anyone who left a comment. Any comment delighted me, but...
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Recipe Rifle goes shopping - summer round-up
Once upon a time, going bikini shopping for me was easy. The only stipulation was that the pants had to have NO TIE-SIDES because I find them annoying and they make my hips look w-i-d-e. Other than...
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Esther's chia seed pudding
I'm very late to chia seeds, like I'm late to everything, except when I have to be somewhere, in which case I am always punctual.Mostly I'm late to chia seeds because I dislike food fads - I don't like...
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Matzoh balls
I often marvel at how similar I am to my husband.Neither of us ring friends "for a chat", we are suspicious of ski-ing, believe Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, to be the best film ever made, like to go...
View ArticleSteamed sea bass with ginger, chilli and pak choi
I have rarely done video posts on this blog because I think my actual presence probably spoils whatever voice you have for me in your head. Historically I have posted videos and everyone has gone "Oh...
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Avocado and crayfish tails
I am not sentimental. My husband complains about it a lot. "Don't go near her, Sam," Giles will warn my son as he toddles towards me, eyes shining, with his chubby arms outstretched. "Your mother...
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Goodbye, the end
Now it's here, the end, I find myself uncharacteristically unable to think of anything profound to say.I'm sure there's so much I've forgotten to tell you. The "drafts" folder of this blog is full of...
View ArticleNew home
Hi Rifler!What are you doing standing about here? I've moved; join me for a housewarming over at The Spike. Everyone's been asking where you are. Just watch out for the punch...
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