Category Archives: Cooking

Pog Berry!

I did it! I bloody did it! I cooked a two course meal for seven and everyone has survived. (So far. I could be counting chickens as we only finished about an hour and a half ago, but I’ll take … Continue reading

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Good bye Pog Towers. Hello….

It’s finally happened. Pog Towers is no longer mine and Norman and I are staying at my parents until I buy Pog Towers 2.  It’s been a funny few days. Norman has spent most of it under my bed, but … Continue reading

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This week in makingness…

(Sorry, these things are all rather random and the day has been too long to wind them together in a better way, so in the style of ‘showing’ / ‘show and tell’ at primary school…) This week I’ve made: …Cherry Pie. … Continue reading

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A note to Mary Berry

Mary Berry, I think I might love you. Me, the Pog who mostly eats toast, actually cooked last night.  I mean, with all different ingredients that I had to buy separately and use more than one pot to combine.  I was … Continue reading

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Christmasness

For about five years I have tried making Brie and cranberry canapés for Christmas. Every year they have been a complete disaster.  I think I might have finally cracked it though! (You just have to ignore the fact that they … Continue reading

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I made food!

Tonight I made something that wasn’t toast! I roasted tomatoes – from my garden, with feta and rosemary – from my garden (not the feta, obviously) and had that with lettuce – from my garden and a jacket potato: It … Continue reading

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Pudding club!

My nearly neighbour friend is pretty much a genius. Last night a group of us decended on her house for pudding club. Nearly neighbour friend made nibbles bits of the tastiest variety and we all took a pudding. Yes, we … Continue reading

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a healthy moment in a chocolate fuelled weekend…

I may have overdone the chocolate this weekend. How could I not when my parents gave me a huge egg, and my Sisters turned into feeders by giving me these?! But I imagine I’m not the only one and I … Continue reading

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A grown up Pog?

Last week a colleague told me that reaching your 40s means you no longer have an excuse not to be a grown up, that everything starts to become more settled and sensible. I can’t think of anything worse, so even though … Continue reading

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The dangers of healthy eating

This healthy eating lark (I’m ignoring the large quantity of chocolate biscuits in my diet for the purposes of this sentence) is quite tricky in unexpected ways. The other weekend I made myself those filo wrapped roast veggies and feta … Continue reading

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