Category Archives: Recipes

Recipe: Spooky Halloween eyeball tarts

Posted on 28 October 2018 by Spuggy

A really easy Halloween recipe for delicious (and actually rather healthy) fruit tarts with a spooky twist. Ingredients (makes 12): 250g jarred balled pears or lychees 1 tube of Smarties or similar colourful chocolate circles 1 food-safe black cake decorating … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Beef tea OR chunky beef soup

Posted on 15 September 2018 by Spuggy

Unfortunately Dove has been down with a cold this week. To ease her suffering, I cooked her this soup. You can stop halfway through to produce a delicious warming beef tea, or do both halves to produce a chunky stew-like … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Broccoli and Stilton Soup

Posted on 7 September 2018 by Spuggy

It’s been a while since we put a recipe up, but I managed to bring back a block of stilton cheese to Germany and this soup turned out too good not to share. Ingredients 1 large head or 2 medium … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Korean-style bitter orange and lime tea

Posted on 20 May 2018 by Spuggy

No photos for this recipe, because I couldn’t find a way to make boiled citrus fruits photogenics. This is based on the Korean yuja-cha (also known by its Japanese name yuzucha), and it’s effectively a marmalade you put in a … Continue reading →

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The periodic table of tastes, and how to cook with them

Posted on 21 February 2018 by Spuggy

One of the more confusing bits of childhood science education is learning that there are only four or five tastes (textbooks have been slow to add the fifth taste, commonly called umami or savouriness, even thought it was discovered over … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Fig chutney

Posted on 1 October 2017 by Spuggy

It’s been a while since I put a recipe up here, but this is something easy and (just about) seasonal. We’re at the end of the season for fresh figs, so supermarkets are selling off their slightly-squishy figs pretty cheap. … Continue reading →

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Chai masala recipe

Posted on 4 November 2015 by Spuggy

It’s November, which means several things. First of all, it means everything has suddenly got very cold and the evenings have got very dark. Second of all, it means it’s NaNoWriMo time again and we need writing fuel. Finally, the … Continue reading →

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Five curry recipes

Posted on 5 July 2015 by Spuggy

Thanks to a series of other things, I only just got round to having my birthday party, and you know what that means: curry buffet! Wow, don’t sound too excited. But anyway, a couple of people have asked me for … Continue reading →

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Google Search Q&A 2

Posted on 31 October 2012 by Spuggy

A few months ago, Dove wrote a post for one poor hapless soul who ended up on our blog after searching for “is sparrow and dove same thing?” Since then, we’ve had people find our site using “is a sparrow … Continue reading →

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Another day, another soup – Cream of Pepper

Posted on 13 February 2012 by Spuggy

So apparently all the recipes I post are for soups? Well, whatever, soups are delicious and this is the perfect time of the year for them (incidentally, our max/min thermometer claims it’s been down as low as -16°C at night … Continue reading →

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