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Terrine of Spring Onion & Chicken In Parma Ham – Stuffed Chicken Thighs with Lemon Sauce, Roasted New Potatoes, Julienne Carrots, Peas – Individual Tiramisu’s

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Dinner Party Menu Ideas for 4 People

My style of cooking for our dinner parties is fairly basic, but tasty (I hope) and easy to. The hardest part is to think up different menus, so I don’t repeat anything, and also when you are hosting, it is nice to prepare and cook as much as you can in advance, or dishes that do not need to be cooked when your guests are ensconced, so you spend most of the time with your guests rather than being in the kitchen. You can read about my style of cooking here

Starter Terrine of Spring Onion & Chicken In Parma Ham
Main Course Stuffed Chicken Thighs with Lemon Sauce, Roasted New Potatoes, Julienne Carrots, Peas
Dessert Individual Tiramisu’s

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Asparagus Wrapped in Prosciutto, Hollandaise Sauce & Poached Egg – Persian Lamb With Sticky Vegetables, Flatbreads, Yoghurt & Harissa – Rhubarb Fool

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Dinner Party Recipe Ideas

My style of cooking for our dinner parties is fairly basic, but tasty (I hope) and easy to. The hardest part is to think up different menus, so I don’t repeat anything, and also when you are hosting, it is nice to prepare and cook as much as you can in advance, or dishes that do not need to be cooked when your guests are ensconced, so you spend most of the time with your guests rather than being in the kitchen. You can read about my style of cooking here

Starter Asparagus Wrapped in Prosciutto, Hollandaise Sauce & Poached Egg
Main Course Persian Lamb With Sticky Vegetables, Flatbreads, Yoghurt & Harissa
Dessert Rhubarb Fool

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Baked Individual Camembert With Onion Marmalade – Roast Fillet of Beef,  Dauphinoise Potato Gratin, Carrots & Asparagus with Parmesan & Red Wine Jus – Pavlova

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Dinner Party 3 Course Recipe Ideas

My style of cooking for our dinner parties is fairly basic, but tasty (I hope) and easy to. The hardest part is to think up different menus, so I don’t repeat anything, and also when you are hosting, it is nice to prepare and cook as much as you can in advance, or dishes that do not need to be cooked when your guests are ensconced, so you spend most of the time with your guests rather than being in the kitchen. You can read about my style of cooking here

Dinner Party Menu Idea for 4 People

Starter Baked Individual Camembert With Onion Marmalade
Main Course Roast Fillet of Beef,  Dauphinoise Potato Gratin, Carrots & Asparagus with Parmesan & Red Wine Jus
Dessert Pavlova

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Clumberdoodle Archie Diary Aged 6 Months Onwards

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Clumberdoodle Archie Diary Aged 6 Months Onwards

Pupdate 20th September 2017 – Archie’s 1st Groom

Archie has just turned 6 months old and it is time for his 1st proper groom, so an appointment was made a few weeks ago at a local Ivybridge Dog Groomer A1 K9. I have to say that I was a bit apprehensive, as Archie has a beautiful long wavy puppy coat which is a bit different to the normal curly coats that this breed should have which needs quite short clipping. However this is necessary as when the adult coat comes through it could start to matte with the puppy coat causing knotting. However as I can manage his coat at the moment with daily brushing there are no knots yet!!! [Read more…] about Clumberdoodle Archie Diary Aged 6 Months Onwards

Clumberdoodle Archie On A Short Break To Cornwall

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Pupdate 21st & 22nd September 2017 – Archie’s little break away in a National Trust Cottage

Clumberdoodle Archie On A Short Break To CornwallNow Archie has joined the family, holidays in the future would be a little different from past holidays as we want to include him, so decided on a  short trial run to see if he enjoyed  being away. As we are now National Trust members we looked through their brochure where listed are lots of dog friendly places to stay and we found what looked to be an ideal little cottage near Fowey in Cornwall.

We left home at about 11.30 am on the 22nd September 2017. As we could not access the property until 3.30 we decided to go to Lantic Bay which is owned by the National Trust and is only a short distance from the cottage. It is a beautiful dog friendly beach and Steve had read reviews that this was a fantastic place to visit although the 20 minute descent to get to the beach was very steep it was well worth a visit. [Read more…] about Clumberdoodle Archie On A Short Break To Cornwall