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How to make Mandarincello
Winter is the season for citrus fruits and hopefully you're making the most of all the cheap vitamin C that is around. However what do you ...
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Cooking pizza in the fireplace
Thanks to Sally for this great article - and can anybody help her with her broken oven? It seems there’s no end to all the culinary gadgetry available to us today. Do we really need all this stuff? Our ancestors got by without it. ...
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In praise of packed lunch
We Make it and Menders love packed lunches! Why do we love them? They're thrifty - a great way to use up leftovers and prepare lovely food at the fraction of the cost of shop bought sandwiches and drinks. They're creative - thinking ...
Seasonal meals
Winter one pot cooking – brown stew chicken
When it's cold outside there's no better way to keep warm than to cook up a stew. Caroline Mi Li Artiss, The 10 Minute Cook, shows us how to make one. This recipe is a delicious one pot way to stay warm and even better it can all be ...
Preserving
Top tips for making marmalade
Marmalade is a more time-consuming project than making jam, but no less satisfying. It's much more labour intensive than the summer fruit jams. You need Seville oranges which only have a limited season in the UK shops - it’s smash and ...
Stories - Food
Hugh’s Fearnley-Whittingstall’s book and his love of packed lunches
Award winning writer, broadcaster, food campaigner and restaurant owner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall talks about food, why making his wife’s packed lunch is so important and reveals he was a picky eater as a child. Guess what his ...
Stories - Well-being
Tips for a carefree Christmas
Make it and Mend it member Beardog shares her top tips for having a trouble free Christmas, along with blissfully simple instructions for making bathsalts (a great present) and a link to her recipe for "very easy roast turkey". ...
Seasonal meals
Recipe for simple roast turkey (and gravy)
This recipe is from Make it and Mend it member Beardog, of Beardog and Jools. She swears it's so easy it involves little more than bunging it in the oven - and she includes a simple recipe for gravy too! Ingredients 4 oz butter 2 ...
Seasonal meals
How to cook your turkey -video
Caroline the 10 Minute Cook talks turkey. How to choose it, how to dress it and how to cook it. Follow her advice in this short video and you can't go wrong! ...
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