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@EssexHebridean yes, yes! Cake is indeed the answer!! Reminds me of smuggling courgettes into choc brownies. Evil mummy ahoy...love Humdinger xx4
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Please don't ever disguise beetroot and sneak it into my food - I have tried to like it and because of all its wondrous properties I have tried just to tolerate it but honest to goodness the stuff is vile.I hope you get some items on your nuisance list crossed off.4
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This is the beauty of shoving it into chocolate brownies - you wouldn't even know it was there! Much the same as carrots in carrot cake - if you can taste the veg in their own right, the cook has messed up! That notwithstanding though, I absolutely agree that sneaking veg of any sort into the food of consenting adults is a no-no!Blackcats said:Please don't ever disguise beetroot and sneak it into my food - I have tried to like it and because of all its wondrous properties I have tried just to tolerate it but honest to goodness the stuff is vile.I hope you get some items on your nuisance list crossed off.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00. Balance as at 31/12/25 = £ 91,100.00
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A friend once made me a cake containing brussels sprouts. Even she admitted it was beyond the pale. Her chocolate beetroot cake is, on the other hand, fantastic.2
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Ohhhh roasted beetroot is my favourite. I always try and grow lots, I gave up trying to get the offspring to eat them, of course they both now do as adults and declare them one of the best veg ever and why didn’t we have it when they lived at home. I just do my “teenage” eye roll and move on.
Very damp and misty here too. I went for a walk, saw some magnificent geese and swans came
home and climbed straight back into my comfy house trousers and knockoff “oodie” style
top. Could really do with some sunshine, January seems to have been particularly bleak this year.
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