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IRELAND - DAY 1
10/09/2014 08:51
It seems a long time since we last went away. It is fair to say that supporting a child through university seriously curtails your ability to travel ... but it's worth it and at last the time is here for the Richards' annual battlefield tour!
This year we are heading back to Ireland and Mike is to...
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Cod Cakes in Tomato Sauce
11/02/2014 14:39
I have hated eating fish all my life. It began as a childhood fear of swallowing a fish bone and fish does not taste very nice when you chew and chew and chew and chew a piece of fish in your mouth just to make sure you haven't missed that sharp fatal shard of bone that could slip down your neck...
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Winter Blues
01/02/2014 13:49
I don't know about you but this wet and miserable weather is starting to get me down. I get out of bed in the morning and it is dark and dreary. I don't seem to have the energy nor enthusiasm for anything anymore. Today was my first Saturday off for a while and I decided I would have a lie in and...
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Greek Night
28/01/2014 12:26
Having spent the last few weeks updating the cookbook section of my blog I realised, to my shame, how many cookbooks I have which have never made it into the kitchen so I was determined to cook my next meal from one of these and I opted for Vefa's kitchen. The book proclaims to share the variety of...
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Spanish Night
23/01/2014 12:23
"I want a Spanish themed evening," declared Mike over breakfast "I want to watch my new movie (The Spanish Musketeer if you're interested) with Spanish food and wine." I was speechless! I normally struggle to get them interested in food planning "Anything in particular?" I asked keen not to let the...
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PLATE PIE
16/01/2014 20:01
I have struggled with pastry for years.So much so that I have considered myself a bread making person whose hands are too warm to make pastry successfully, but I continued to persevere and discovered that my failure was as a result of worrying too much about the amount of water I put into the mix....
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Christmas Dinner
15/01/2014 11:50
I am sitting in my kitchen surrounded by cook books trying to plan our meals over the festive period. "Give me a clue!" I plead "What things do you want?" 'I don't really mind much." said Mike as he proceeded to veto every suggestion I then made.
"Come on Andrew, help me out here!" "How about...
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WHERE DOES THE TIME GO - IT'S 2014 ALREADY!
14/01/2014 12:16
I don't really know what happened to the last four months of 2013. My life went from busy to hectic and my blog seemed to be the thing that suffered as a consequence. I have still been cooking and testing out recipes on my long suffering family with mixed results but I have not been making the time...
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ASHTANGA WORKSHOPS WITH JOHN SCOTT
09/12/2013 16:35
I was introduced to Ashtanga yoga by Sonja Appel in India as part of my teacher training course. i really loved this style of teaching mainly because I am unsure about how to approach self practice. How should I structure my own session? How do I make sure I continue to progress? It's 99% practice...
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Yin Yoga Training - Day 4
30/09/2013 21:51
It is fair to say that the energy level in class was diminished on the morning of Day 4. How much of that was as a result of 3 full days of Yin Yoga or an evening of Guinness in the pub the night before, is left to your imagination!
We had a full day ahead of us as we meditated and then worked our...
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