Thursday, 10 February 2011

Little Susan Cookies. Carrot Cookies


Little Susan Cookies 

Probably no body outside my family know these carrots cookies with this name. They were very popular after playing with my cousin Steve in our muddy backyard in our winter holidays. The carrots are in season in winter and I remember very well when my mother baked them. Even I remember one rainy afternoon when my older sister tries to emulate my mother and do for us, but the cookies were hard like stones. Lucky enough my sister becomes a strong independent woman without kids to bake cookies, and lucky to us my mother arrived earlier with enough time to make a new dough.  So when a couple days ago was reading the cook book of my aunt was a great surprise to find the Little Susan Cookies, unfortunately was a miss tipping in the ingredients list that I am not notice and my first dough was too sweet and the cookies with similar hard texture than almost 20 years ago. So I´ll call my mother to rescue the Little Susan cookies again and she give me a more accurate recipe that I will show in gram instead of cups because like a beginner I fine hard to measure by cups.  Going to the recipie


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Wednesday, 9 February 2011

A summer Day in Brighton


I hadn’t intended to post this recipe today, but yesterday when awake Brighton was bright and warm like a perfect spring day, after years of disappointment I really do not trust so much  the British weather, but the weather man said that will be a really nice day, so I decided I will have a nice lunch on the balcony so forgotten since I believe July past year. I rush to the fish market for see the catch of the day,   because I think for this kind of days is nothing better than a good fish meal with a nice bottle of wine. So I prepared a nice pasta dish for lunch at the balcony and for today a starter of mussels and a main of mackerel.

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Thursday, 20 January 2011

Welcome

Hello and Welcome! to my first blog experience.  You will find Mediterranean diet recipes and  British food that I hope will help you every day to have a quick and nutritional meal with the products you can find in your local food store keeping an eye on your budget and the environment. And as well some space for restaurant reviews, wines and travel.

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About Me

After taking a gap in my IT career In 2008 I moved to England to improve my English language,  soon I realized that in England I can have the same diet at the same cost as in Spain, for that reason I was determined to improve my cooking skills following TV celebrities chefs and specialized press. Meanwhile as I was learning I started to remember the recipes of my mum and the rest of my family that in a way or another always has been related with the kitchen. This blog is related to my roots and the attempt to have quality and nutritional food in a society dominated by supermarket chains and processed food.

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