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Recipe: Frances Atkins’ Turkey Arancini

Enjoy this amazing Mediterranean recipe for Frances Atkins’ Turkey Arancini. In Italy Arancini are a bit different but this is a great variety of the dish. Serves 4 Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 minutes Ingredients: Arancini mix • 400g cooked risotto, either leftover or shop-bought • 200g leftover turkey meat, finely chopped • 1 tsp thyme leaves…
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Recipe: Lemon Drizzle Cake

Easy recipe for Lemon Drizzle Cake donated by Tonia George you can bake for Mother’s day or for Easter lunch. It is a Springy cake! By combining tart flavours with sweet, and a fluffy sponge with a satisfying crust, Tonia George’s version of this classic treat offers the best of all worlds. Luxurious lemon drizzle cake with Mascarpone & lemon curd filling, sweet, buttery sponge…
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Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Kids

For many parents, it’s much too easy to simply provide a box of sugar and starch-filled cereal for the children in the morning. While these cereals may taste good, the body needs more than what a lot of these breakfasts can provide. What kind of breakfasts can you give the children that are healthy as well as tasty? 1. Adding Berries to Pancakes – Pancakes can be a great way to start…
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Pancake Day recipe by TV Chef Marcus Bean - Light and Fluffy Blueberry Pancake

Here is a great recipe for Pancake Day by TV chef Marcus Bean – Light and Fluffy Blueberry Pancake seems simply delicious. Good looking and self-taught chef, Marcus Bean, won Iron chef UK in 2010 on Channel 4. Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 5 minutes Ingredients: 135g Self Raising flour 2 tbsp Caster sugar 1 tsp Baking Powder 130ml Milk 1 medium egg Small punnet of blueberries…
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Pancake recipes for all occasions

Pancakes are easy to prepare and can be used for recipes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday and beyond. Here is a collection of our favourite Pancake recipes. Just click on the pink links or on the images to be redirected to the recipes. Enjoy! London Mums own easy recipes can be found in the chat forum about Pancake Day. Pear and Vanilla Pancakes BASIC PANCAKE RECIPE If you fancy making…
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Recipe: Pineapple and grapefruit fat-loss smoothie

I love this Spring recipe for Pineapple and grapefruit fat-loss smoothie kindly donated by Netflix to London Mums. Get this smoothie ready to drink before and after the TV workout prepared by celebrity fitness guru Niki Wibrow who teamed up with Netflix to to help us mums find a way to work out during our daily routine, and what better way to do this than to burn the calories while you are…
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Recipe: EMMA BRIDGEWATER Spelt loaf for the SPORT RELIEF BAKE OFF

Ready for the Sport Relief bake off? This year we have the honour to host Emma Bridgewater’s recipe for spelt loaf. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1.5kg spelt flour ( white or whole grain, the choice is yours) 900ml water, blood heat. 3 teaspoons sea salt 2 sachets of quick yeast ( follow the instructions on the packet) Method: Pour the bag of flour into a very large, warm bowl. Stir in the…
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Recipe: Mexican Hot Chocolate

Chocolate comes from Central America and the best hot chocolate is definitely from there too. Try this Mexican Hot Chocolate to treat yourself during winter gloomy weather. Chocolate is an antidepressant too and it is vegetable based so it kind of counts for your five a day, doesn’t it? 🙂 serves 4 Ingredients · 500ml whole milk · 150g Mexican chocolate, broken into pieces · ½…
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Recipe: Christmas punch

Try London Mums’ favourite recipe for a super easy Christmas punch to impress your guests this Christmas! Serves 15 Ingredients: · 3 bottles of red wine · 4 tablespoons of aGranulated sweetener · 3 cloves · Pinch of nutmeg · 1 – 1½ cinnamon sticks · 300ml dark rum · Zest and juice of 1 lemon · Zest and juice of 3 oranges Method: It’s always fun to get all the…
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Recipe: Mulled Wine

Home made Mulled Wine is simply delicious. Try this simple recipe. Enjoy! Merry Christmas! Serves 8 Ingredients: 1 bottle dry red wine 5 tablespoons granulated sweetener 125ml brandy 2 cinnamon sticks 6 whole cloves pinch of grated nutmeg 2 oranges, thinly sliced 1 lemon, thinly sliced Method: Variations of this drink can be found around the world, from Sweden to Germany, from Moldova to…
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