Salted Caramel Pecan Bites

Moment of complete honesty... I usually shy away from sharing recipes that I've just served to friends/ family (unless they're one of our regular dishes that I've made a million times) for two reasons: a) I'm usually too busy making them to think about taking photos at the same time and b) I'm always a bit nervous that I only like them because they're to my taste and I know all the hard work I put into them... I'd hate to think that they might read one of my posts and think "it wasn't all that"! Tonight though I've decided to be brave... we had a Christmas party with some friends this week and served these little dudes... and the sweet compliments we received gave me the courage I needed to go ahead and share them.

Have you ever had Daim bars? The yummy hard caramel bars with a thin coating of chocolate... the ones you can buy in Ikea? Well that's the sort of caramel we're talking about here... crunchy, buttery and smooth. Just instead of chocolate, we have pecans and just a hint of salt. Yum scrum.

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Cheesy Pinwheels

I love cheese. I love pastry. I love soup. Sometimes I want something other than plain old bread to go with soup - mostly so that it looks like I've really made an effort with dinner, when really it was no effort at all! This recipe is my answer to all of these things in one neat, swirly little package - and, even though it means I'll need to come up with a new trick to make it look like I've slaved over dinner, I wanted to share it with you.

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Roasted Spiced and Salted Chickpeas

If you've read a few of my posts, you may have come to the conclusion that "health food" isn't my forte. You would be right. That's not to say though that I don't like healthy food- it's just not usually the first (or second, or third) thing that pops into my head when I'm dreaming up my next experiment. But, once in a while, I do get the notion for something that wont mean I have to do an extra mile on the treadmill... 

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