Category: cooking
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The Marketing Adventurers League is Coming!
Are you having adventures (or misadventures) in marketing? Do you want to join a supportive community of side hustlers/small business owners/new business owners looking for advice on how to get established and scale their business? If so, the Marketing Adventurers League is for you. Join the waitlist here to be the first to hear when…
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Misadventure: I’d rather swallow Donald Trump’s plum juice than eat there again.
Picture this: Vietnam*. New Year’s Eve, 2018. The air was warm with a gentle breeze. Ho Chi Minh was buzzing, because even though they have a slightly different calendar, they have a massive tourist industry. We were staying in the Japanese quarter, at a lovely apart-hotel. The guy in the apartment next to ours was…
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How many ounces in a cup? The crafting conversions you need most on one page
How many ounces are there in a cup? The formula is fl oz x 8 = cups. Or cups divided by 8 = fluid ounces. In decimals, 0.125 cups = 1 fluid ounce and 8 fl oz = 1 cup. How many weeks in a year? There are 52 weeks in a year. But there…
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How to have the best British picnic ever (with kids)!
Picnics are a national pastime in Britain. I don’t know about you, but in the past few years my picnics have been a bit uninspired. I got into this rut of grabbing a drink, crisps and a veggie sausage roll, stuffing them in my handbag and dashing out of the house before it rains again.…
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Dishwasher full of weird red stuff? Fix it!
Two years ago, I was staying with some friends who, incidentally, had our old dishwasher. It was a cheap slimline model which perfectly suited my husband and I as a couple with no kids (I think these days I’d go for a full-size model as we now cook with more plates and bigger pans). I…
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40 things you can clean in a dishwasher
Got a dishwasher? Did you ever think its powerful cleaning capabilities could be used on other things than plates, cups and pots? Here are 40 things you can clean in a dishwasher: Bin lids Put them on the bottom shelf at the highest temperature for maximum cleaning. Small plastic rubbish bins If you have those…
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Fussy toddler? 10 easy ways to feed them healthy stuff!
If you listen to some people, all toddlers only eat alfalfa, olives, hummus and organic homemade raw vegan baby recipes that take only ten hours to make. Mine isn’t like that. He likes fish fingers and biscuits. It’s been pretty easy to get into bad habits this year, as budgets have been squeezed beyond breaking…
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Super-fast vegan pasta salad
This healthy and nutritious vegan recipe takes fifteen minutes at the most including pasta cooking time. Perfect for a busy family’s midweek dinner or weekend lunch. When I was at univeristy, I had a friend from Catalonia who had a completely different view of cooking to me. When I went vegan for the first time…
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5 Foods to Forage in August: Ireland
One of the most wonderful things about living out in the country in a large village is the abundance of wildlife all around me. I love seeing the birds every day as the coal tits come to my bird feeder followed by the ravens, who usually grab some of the pest bugs from my vegetable…
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