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Smile

Posted in Tag on January 6, 2008 | 22 Comments »

Last month I was tagged by the lovely Pat asking me to list eight things that make me happy. Only eight… Rather than think too hard and assuming you already know that D, family and friends make me happy, I’m just going to write down eight random things that make me smile. Eating things from my garden [...]

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REALLY Good Ribs

Posted in Food, Recipes, Tag on January 5, 2008 | 17 Comments »

I write this next post rather sheephishly. A few months ago Katie and Lindsay announced a new blogging event: Seasoned Eating. Those who registered had to send a herb or spice to a fellow blogger along with a recipe using the ingredient. As excited as I was about the event, when I received my weird smelling [...]

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French Onion Soup

Posted in Food, Recipes, Travel on January 4, 2008 | 18 Comments »

Staying in a British run hotel during my week in Les Menuires, the food was generally less French and less spectacular than I had anticipated. Lunches tended to be a fairly rushed, slope-side beer and croque-monsieur (a combination which is not to be sniffed at, I should add) and dinners were often very English and, frankly, quite bland. But towards [...]

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Les Trois Vallées

Posted in Christmas, Travel on January 2, 2008 | 27 Comments »

Happy New Year everyone! I’m back from my first ever ski holiday. Not only do I have a couple of broken ribs, I also spent an inordinate amount of time last week trembling in fear whilst learning to ski, riding on ski-lifts, travelling in gondolas, even sitting on the airport-transfer coach! As someone who is scared of both heights [...]

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