Recipes

Breakfast recipe: CINNAMON AND APPLE CHEESY TOASTIES

It is a good habit to alternate breakfast choices both for children and parents. Here us a quick and original breakfast recipe for you: CINNAMON AND APPLE CHEESY TOASTIES. Yum! Ingredients: 2 slices of bread of your choice 50g Mature Cheddar, grated 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and finely sliced Ground cinnamon Method: Fill the bread with the cheese and apple and sprinkle with a little…
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Bonfire Night recipe: Bonfire Butterscotch Apples

Celebrate Bonfire Night with this spacial and easy recipe: Bonfire Butterscotch Apples. Ingredients 100g butter 350g soft brown sugar 568ml double cream 6 apples, peeled, cored and cut into 12 wedges 6 pears, peeled, cored and cut into 12 wedges Juice of 1 lemon 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp ground ginger 2 packs Sweet Dutch Pancakes (we used Abra-ca-Debora Sweet Dutch Pancakes for this recipe)…
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Recipe: Traditional Toffee Apples

Toffee Apples are the perfect outdoor treat. You’ll need ten clean, sturdy sticks – or push the boat out and use cinnamon sticks. Easy recipe for Halloween or Bonfire Night. Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes, plus 15 minutes setting Total time: 55 minutes 55 minutes Serves: 10 Ingredients 10 English apples, well scrubbed to remove any wax residues 450g light muscovado…
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Halloween Recipe: Spooky Spider CupCakes

Here is a yummy and good looking Halloween recipe: Spooky Spider CupCakes. Kids will love it as it is rich and it looks really spooky. Preparation time: 25 minutes Cooking time: 18 minutes Serves: 12 Ingredients: For the cupcakes 125g light sunflower spread 125g caster sugar 2 eggs 100g self-raising 25g cocoa powder 1 tablespoon semi-skimmed milk For the topping 120g chocolate spread (we have…
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Events

Wallace & Gromit's BIG Bake 2nd -8th December 2013 - Let's Raise some Dough for sick children in UK Hospitals and Hospices

We need London Mums to roll out your rolling pins, whip out your whisk and preheat your ovens to help us raise some dough for kids in hospitals and hospices. Wallace & Gromit’s BIG Bake is between 2nd and 8th December 2013. Let’s Raise some Dough for sick children in UK Hospitals and Hospices Whether you bake cupcakes or cheesecakes, pies or pastries, brownies or bloomers, or…
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Movies

Film review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT

One of the most acclaimed and celebrated movies of the year starring Academy Award® Nominees Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy, the Sony Pictures Classics romantic drama BEFORE MIDNIGHT, will be available from 28 October 2013 on DVD with UltraViolet from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It’s a good-feel type of movie that women would particularly enjoy because of its romantic nature as well…
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Recipes

Halloween recipe: Halloween Choco Cobwebs

Here is a very simple and quick Halloween recipe using ready made pancakes: Halloween Choco Cobwebs. They are fun to make and yummy to eat. Ingredients 2 bars of good quality chocolate A packet of chocolate buttons Method 1. Melt the chocolate in a pan with a little water 2. Either put in a piping bag or dribble free hand on to a cold Sweet Dutch Pancake (we used Abra-ca-Debora Sweet…
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Parenting Skills

PARENTS PREPARE FOR JET-LAGGED CHILDREN WHEN CLOCKS GO BACK THIS WEEKEND

While many of us are looking forward to spending an extra hour tucked up in bed this Sunday morning, many parents will be dreading the effect the clocks going back will have on their children. In a survey carried out this week by children’s television show Tickety Toc, which questioned 1000 parents of children aged between 0-5 years, nearly three-quarters (71%) of parents said that the…
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Parenting Skills

National Clocks Go Back Week - Tips to Help your Child Adjust to the Extra Hour

Many people will relish the thought of an extra hour in bed when the clocks go back this autumn. But for many parents with young children this is a far-flung dream! 7pm will become 6pm but worse still 6am will become 5am! Not a pretty thought. Routine is key for children so making the transition as unnoticeable as possible is paramount. So, as part of national Clocks Go Back Week, Naturopath…
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