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The First Installment of Home Made Christmas Gifts!
Home Made is The Best Kind! Every Christmas, the world wastes about 2 Billion on unwanted gifts, I’ve sure got my fair share from trinkety ornaments and things, you know the thought is…
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Warming Soups Which Wont Add Pounds
So last week I did the Dukan attack phase and lost about 9lb’s in a week, it’s usually more but our bodies work in weird ways. I am trying to lose more now…
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Attacking The Dukan: Day 3
Well now! I’m very happy with myself! 6lb’s down! I did a little dance in the bathroom-haha! I have to admit, it’s feeling a little difficult today, I just didn’t feel like scrambled…
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Attacking The Dukan: Day 2
It’s the second day of this diet, I have to admit I am pretty happy with myself, I got on the scales, reluctantly, used to seeing it gaining and not reclining, since hitting…
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Attacking The Dukan, Day 1
So my husband is working abroad for a week, and finally I get to do a spot of dieting, shift some pounds before the party season kicks off. I’ve written before (one of…
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Cream Cakes & The Classic Coffee Slice
You’ve got to love a good old cream cake! They always take me right back to Dublin in the 80’s, there are still loads of old fashioned bakeries dotted about the city, selling …
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Traditional Irish Soda Bread
I had an immense craving for brown bread this week, good home made stuff so I decided to make some! While we were grocery shopping, I really found it difficult to buy the…
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Recipe: Churros
I can remember a trip to Los Angeles, 10 years ago, and first time seeing churro’s on Hollywood Boulevard, opposite the Kodak Theatre where they hold the Oscar’s every year, in a pizza…
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Recipe: Coconut Macaroons
It’s definitely the time of year to start baking Macaroon’s! I don’t have a sweet tooth but I do have a weakness for them, dense, moist, coconutty and not to mention chocolatey! I…
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Haunted House Halloween Party
Halloween is my absolute favourite time of year, well all of Autumn is, really! The colours in the trees are stunning at this time of year, rusts, russet’s, browns and greens, there’s a…
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Schichtorte: Trying my hand at a Great British Bake Off ‘Technical Challenge’…
Anyone who follows my Facebook page will have guessed that I’m somewhat of a Great British Bake Off fanatic! This week was the Quarter Final and I’m pretty sure that Richard the builder…
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Cozy Autumn & Butternut Squash Soup
Summer is really dragging out this year and I’m finding myself sort of wishing it would move on… it’s overcast and humid, mornings are cold, afternoons are stuffy and people are starting to…
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Recipe: Home Made Butter
We love trying our hands at making our own! We’ve brewed our own beer, wine, made our own spaghetti, ravioli…..and even butter! I’ve my husband to thank for this and it couldn’t be…
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Recipe: Red Velvet Cake
I can usually take or leave cake, but my weakness is chocolate! Mention Red Velvet cake to me and my ears prick up! There’s something so enticing about that red velvety moist sponge…
The Creative Yoke
A lifestyle blog by Sarah Cooke-O'Neill
