Tag Archives: Weekend Cooking

Weekend Cooking – Julie & Julia

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Julie Goucher

Last weekend, here in the UK was a long weekend with Monday being a bank holiday. We didn’t have much planned and spent the weekend relaxing, walking Alfie and catching the occasional film. The film of Julie & Julia was based upon … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Foodie Quotes

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Julie Goucher

This week has been a challenging one. We heard some sad news over last weekend and although I have written a few posts this week and gone to work, I have been rather preoccupied. Then on Tuesday we heard that … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Chili Con Corpses by J B Stanley

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Julie Goucher

I have missed the last few weekend cooking posts, just simply due to not being organised and the weekends of late being too short! My late contribution is a book review for Chili Con Corpses by J B Stanley. I spotted … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Victory in Europe July 1945

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Julie Goucher

Amongst my Grandmother’s belongs was this little cookbook in making cakes and icing. I don’t know if she ever used the recipes or if she had numbers 1-65.

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Weekend Cooking – Easter Weekend

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Julie Goucher

I worked right up to Easter, well Maundy Thursday and finished late in the evening. I had planned the weekend cooking, Sunday lunch and the weather forecast predicted good and sunny weather, which meant BBQ! – I had plenty of … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Pie in the Sky

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Julie Goucher

Readers here in the UK may remember a crime series called Pie in the Sky which was broadcast on the BBC during 1994 – 1997. The series is currently doing a rerun on the ITV 3 channels each weekday evening … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Wheat Wine anyone?

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Julie Goucher

This recipe is one of my treasured possessions. It is a recipe for Wheat Wine written circa 1965 by my Great Grandmother, Annie Prudence Butcher nee Harris.

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Weekend Cooking – Just a Recipe Book, or much more?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Julie Goucher

Not long after we moved in together I purchased a very plain notebook from the newsagents opposite the supermarket in Sutton where we lived at the time. The notebook was to use for the recipes and cooking notes I had … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Julie Goucher

About a month ago I saw an interesting two part review of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management (Abridged version published by World Classics). Here are the links to Review One and Review Two written by Bunny’s Stuff. I was … Continue reading →

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Weekend Cooking – Hot Potato!

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Julie Goucher

To find out about the Weekend Cooking feature hosted by Beth Fish Reads click HERE During last week I came across, via Twitter a great new site called Hot Potatoe, which describes itself as a first internet social networking site … Continue reading →

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