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Tips for planning a great wedding reception - take note Kate
Advice for Kate from women who've planned great weddings - their own.
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Create hand-made Christmas cards
Making your own Christmas cards can be fast, fun and amazingly inexpensive. For a relatively small investment you can equip yourself with card blanks, glitters, metallic sprays and rubber stamps, whatever takes your fancy. You can even ...
Baking
Red Velvet Vampire Cupcakes
Caroline Mi Li Artiss has a wonderful cupcake recipe that is perfect for a Halloween or Vampire party. Here's the recipe and there's a video demo from Craoline at the bottom of the page. A timely recipe to try for October whether you're ...
Role models
Living in the Blitz – when you had to “just do it”
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the blitz we've collected some short oral histories from those who were around at the time. What comes across loud and clear is that long after the memories of the falling bombs and the horrors of ...
Cultivation
Small space vegetable gardening
I love discovering new techniques and approaches to my Make and Mend pursuits and this one looks a cracker, says Clare Flynn. Square Foot Gardening (SFG) is a way to use a small amount of ground to grow a large number of different ...
Cultivation
Get an allotment – ask the experts
Allotments used to have a whiff of austerity about them. During World War Two people were exhorted to 'Dig for victory' and make hearty meals with turnip tops. Allotments were about wellington boots and corduroy trousers. There were jolly ...
Food
A first lesson in making jam – VIDEO
People often think that making jam is a time-consuming and difficult job. Marianna, a student at UCL, was no exception. She was keen to give it a try, but expected it to take a lot longer than the 15-20 minutes it actually took her. We ...
Meat
How to make pork carnitas
This recipe has just sent me straight to the freezer to pull out the nice pork shoulder I have in there. I can't wait to eat this. As usual Caroline's recipes are both yummy and very easy to follow and replicate. watch the video or read ...
Baking
How to make Creme Brulee – yum yum!
Who can possibly resist the delights of Creme Brulee? The combination of that hard crispy topping and the warmth and melt-in-the-mouth creaminess of the custard below make a sensual and delicious combination. Don't just save this for a ...
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