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Garden of Eden Cookies

I create some Bible craft ideas for the website BibleQuizzes.org.uk and one of the ones I’ve done recently is these Garden of Eden cookies. As they are also rather tasty, I thought I would share the recipe on this blog too! The cookies taste nice whatever shape you cut them into – so you don’t […]

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Herb and lemon pork chops

Ingredients: 6 pork loin chops 3 cloves of garlic, crushed Small bunch flat-leaf parsley, chopped 1/2 tsp fennel seeds, roughly crushed Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon, plus 1 lemon, quartered 3 tbsp olive oil 6 bay leaves Method 1. Marinate the chops Put the chops in a dish. Mix together the garlic, parsley, […]

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Strawberry Delight

I’ve been experimenting with low sugar jelly at the moment (“jello” to my friends over the pond!). It makes a great low calorie pudding. It’s nice on its own, and it’s nicer still with fruit set into it. Make sure you don’t try to put kiwi, pineapple or papaya into a jelly though, as there […]

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Creamy chicken, bacon and basil pasta

I was looking for a chicken recipe that I could adapt as low carb. Now on a low carb diet, fat is king, and I came across this chicken recipe that made a sauce using cream. Believe it or not I’ve never used cream in a sauce before, simply because following more conventional healthy eating […]

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Chilli beef meatballs in tomato, white wine and romero pepper sauce

Today I’ve tried out another recipe with minced beef (ground beef).  This time it’s a recipe for meatballs.  I tend to avoid making burgers because they always seem to fall apart but I have more success with meatballs.  This recipe also used a new ingredient that I had never tried before – a Romero pepper. […]

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