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  • The Simple Woman's Day Book . . . on Nov 23, 2009 in Soups and Stews Vegetarian Vegetables

    FOR TODAY, November 23rd, 2009 ...Outside My Window... It is dark and very, very windy. It's also raining. It looked on the weather forecast last evening like we have strong winds and rain with us for another week. Cumbria has been devastated by...

  • Maries Sunday Six on Nov 22, 2009 in Fruit Dessert Holidays

    Welcome to my Sunday Six post. Oh how I love Sundays! It is good to take some time to pause and reflect on all that is good in my life. It would be so easy sometimes to just think about all the irritating and depressing things. I'm only human, an...

  • A Merry Christmas Giveaway on Nov 21, 2009

    Welcome to my Christmas 2009 Giveaway! You all give to me so cheerfully every day of the year with your wonderful comments and your special kind of love and so I want to give something back to you in the way of a Christmas Giveway. Yes! One of you...

  • Pearls . . . on Nov 20, 2009 in Breads Fruit

    "I hope for you the very best that life has to offer, but I hope even more for a few simple things . . . things that come of the heart, things that come of the spirit, things that come of the divine within each of us.When all is said and done, when y...

  • Thirteen Guilty Pleasures . . . on Nov 19, 2009 in Side Dishes Vegetarian Vegetables

    No theme, no questions, just thirteen of my guilty pleasures . . .1. Malted Milk Cookies, spread with Nutella. You get the lovely cripsness of a slightly sweet malt flavoured cookie, covered in delicious and creamy hazelnut chocolate spread. Need I...

  • Starting afresh . . . on Nov 18, 2009 in Meat Cheap and Cheerful Mains

    Which one of us is perfect and has never made a mistake??? I'd be the first to jump up and say . . . . "Not I!" I'm sure that most of us, given the chance, would love to be able to go back and right a few wrongs and make a few corrections . . . of...

  • Drink deep from the well . . . on Nov 17, 2009 in stuffings Poultry Chicken

    I recently read of a little girl brought with her family into a relief camp, set up in a disaster area. The family was homeless and starving. For days, they'd barely had enough to sustain themselves, and every scrap and morsel they did have, had bee...