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Monday, 14 February 2011

February

On my desk in one of my offices (oh! the joy of my 'portfolio career'!) I have somehow inherited a calendar with a motto for each month. February says: "Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon".

Okay then.

 


How I love my cupcake stand! Tacky as hell. Six quid. What more could a girl ask for?


I must admit to a flicker of envy when I read Alice's post about how she had just discovered Bill Granger. I remember those heady, exciting days when we started out together, and everything was a whirl of glazed broccolini. After a few years though, Bill and I have settled down, become more comfortable with one another. But he can still surprise me - as evidenced by his shortbread kisses, above.

Add friends and fizzy wine, and we were good to go.
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13 comments:

  1. Stomper Girl14 February 2011 at 02:55

    I have a cupcake rack very similar to yours which fits an odd number, so that my perfect dozen of Nigella's easy cupcakes are not enough and I have to stick a tealight or something up top to make it pretty. (I don't have a pretty cake plate like your dotty one though)

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  2. Ali14 February 2011 at 03:05

    Now why didn't I read your post before I made a batch of regular cookie dough which is sitting in the fridge chilling and is now bound to feel ever so slightly disappointing, no matter how cute the biscuits I had planned turn out.

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  3. Gina14 February 2011 at 04:17

    I think those shortbread kisses might have to be on the menu tonight!

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  4. driftwood14 February 2011 at 04:23

    oh I know what I'm doing this afternoon !

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  5. Paola14 February 2011 at 04:23

    LOL @ Stomper Girl, as I have the same stand with odd number ...
    it ended up in the very top shelf of the highest cupboard in the kitchen ... sigh.
    CL this is a very mouth watering post. Drool.

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  6. The Coffee Lady14 February 2011 at 04:30

    Paola as I told Stomper Girl, my stand has 23 spaces. So if I bake 24, I just HAVE to eat one or they don't fit.

    Tragic.

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  7. dottycookie14 February 2011 at 05:26

    Shortbread kisses with Bill Granger? I should be so lucky.

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  8. Lynn14 February 2011 at 06:43

    Yikes! Save some for me, and I'll be right over.

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  9. silverpebble14 February 2011 at 14:08

    OK, how did you do that lovely fuzzy photography of your pretty heart garland?

    What is broccolini?

    So many questions.

    This post is like sommat out of the Hummingbird bakery.

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  10. alice c14 February 2011 at 15:45

    I feel handbagged.
    I'm just saying.
    Off to sob into my brownie mix.
    I hope that Orlando will take me back.

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  11. Unknown15 February 2011 at 10:28

    Ooh my. I am feeling the need to give into this wave of Bill love. Off to Amazon I think.

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  12. angharad handmade19 February 2011 at 13:14

    Those shortbread kisses are on my to-bake list (it's a very long list!). I love Bill Granger's recipes - his cakes and biscuits are always lovely, and several of the main meal recipes are becoming staples around here.

    The heart garland is very pretty too - I had ideas of handmade decorations after school with the children, but baby and dinner slightly too over. Oops.

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  13. Anonymous26 February 2011 at 02:42

    What a lovely collection of hearty goodies!

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