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Lamb Pittas with Mint Yoghurt Sauce
The children were demanding burgers. But I am sick of making burgers and as I try not to repeat myself on this blog I thought we’d compromise. They could have burgers. But made with lamb rather than...
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Slow Cooker Beef and Dumplings
Last week we had a family get together. Four generations, variously meat eating and vegetarian, to celebrate a birthday or two. The House of Happiness (for that is us) were tasked with bringing the...
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Pork And Bratwurst Casserole – Cooking with an iPad and Dealing with the...
About a year ago we decided to purchase a tablet. Not the Ecstasy or Viagra type. The shiny look-no-keyboard type. Now the smart money goes with an iPad. For everyone else there’s the Samsung. We (I)...
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Another BBC Good Food Show
The BBC, that bastion of investigative journalism (if you’ve been following the news recently you’ll know I’m being sarcastic oh deeeeaaaar) also does a nice line in all things food related. A couple...
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Fraisier Cake By Mary Berry For Furniaphobics
I just made up a new phobia – furniahobia is the ‘fear of baking’ (from the Latin ‘to bake’). Yes its a pretty slow Saturday afternoon around here and kids are hogging the Playstation. The problem with...
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Chocolate Chilli
In the world of food some things were simply meant for each other. In fact some food items are so compatible it’s a bit of a mystery why God didn’t just save some time and bring them into existence in...
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The Really Lazy Guide to Making Cupcakes
First thing you need are these: These are a pair of hands of a child (you might want to keep them attached to the relevant child, preferably your own). Secondly you will need one of these: This is a...
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How to Celebrate an Anniversary on a School Night and why Champagne isn’t a...
My wife and I celebrated our third year of marriage this week. Seeing as we had work the next day we didn’t go out but made sure we had everything we needed: We’ve got some flowers there, of course,...
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Trifle! And How It Can Help You Stay Connected With Your Children.
This weekend we visited one of my sisters’ homes and celebrated my oldest niece’s birthday. The event highlighted for me the inevitability of growing up and getting older. The third generation of my...
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Why I love France – Beef Kebabs and Chocolate Coconut Mousse
So this week has been eventful – a few days off in Provence, southern France, enjoying sun, heat and food, courtesy of the in-laws, (A major food discovery in Aix was melon served up by my...
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Emergency Pumpkin Jack-o’-lantern
It’s 3 O’Clock on Halloween. We have pumpkins. We have fake blood. We have sweets and chocolate. And we have to go trick-or-treating. So we have to get busy. First off we need a Jack-o’-lantern (that...
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How to Make an Angry Birds Cake
I love Angry Birds. ‘What’s Angry Birds’? I hear you ask. No I do hear you, I hear the voices. In my head. No I don’t really. For the uninitiated, Angry Birds is just about the most popular App on the...
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Pulled Pork
The easiest thing you will make this year. And, in this blogger’s opinion, the tastiest. Sometimes the simple stuff is the best. You will need: 2 onions, sliced 3 bay leaves 1 tbsp mustard powder 1...
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Of Psychotic Jack o’lanterns and Brownie melt-downs
I don’t think I know, or even care, what Halloween is about anymore. It’s like something to do with something about some pagan ritual. Or is it something to do with saving our souls from pagan rituals....
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Wild Pig, Black Pudding and Breakfasts that ‘set in’
Previously on Happiness Stan… I went to the butchers and they were slightly annoying. So a month or so ago we set off shopping, but decided to explore the more rural parts, south of where we live,...
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Moving
It’s been some time since the Happiness that is Happiness Stan saw fit to write something. For Happiness Stan has been about as happy as a fart in a thunderstorm. Not happy. Not happy at all. I could...
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Happy Days
It’s been nearly 1 year since Happiness Stan last posted a post. I lost my mojo. Gave up. Couldn’t be arsed, so to speak. But give a guy a break. In that time I (we) have: Moved house (major trauma)...
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