Regular readers will know how much I love a good brownie and that this recipe has become my go to recipe for brownies. It's become so popular that friends always ask me for the recipe and I've yet to find a better chocolate brownie - if you know of one please let me know! I love to play about with this recipe to...

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I fully intended to publish this Chocolate Pavlova recipe last Friday but with the results of the EU Referendum I just didn't feel like it was the time or the place to think about blogging while we were all trying to get our heads round the result.  I'm still shocked that "Leave" won (even by such a small margin) and I genuinely fear...

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Do you remember that brief spell of sunshine that we had a few weeks ago? What happened to it? It’s been grim ever since and I’m starting to wonder will summer ever arrive. In the hope and anticipation that posting some summer recipes with you this week will encourage the sun to shine I’ve two delicious pavlova recipes to share with you all....

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I haven't done a meal plan for a while now. We have had a few busy weeks where things have been a bit up in the air and then I flew back home to Belfast last week for a couple of days so their definitely wasn't any meal planning going on then. Speaking of which, I was really apprehensive about flying by myself...

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Monday 6th June saw The Wharfedale Clandestine Cake Club meet at the Chippendale Tea Rooms in Otley for our Back to Basics event. It was a strange one for me as it's the first time I left Ethan even though it was only for 2 hours and I was only 5 minutes away if Mr T needed me. I defrosted some expressed milk...

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Dear Ethan, How is it that you are 3 months old already? I considered writing you monthly letters but instead I've opted for quarterly ones as they mark some bigger milestones. We have now officially left the "Fourth Trimester" and the newborn days behind. Daddy and I were keen to follow your lead in these first few months slowly finding our feet and...

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So this operation to shift the mum tum is just not happening. I'm eating reasonably well and getting out with the pram most days but this last stone is not for shifting. I put on just over 2.5 stone when I was pregnant and thankfully I'm back in all of my pre-pregnancy jeans but tops are a different matter. Breastfeeding means the boobs...

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