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Penelope's Pantry

 Penelope ― http://penelopespantry.blogspot.com

My corner of the internet to write about what I've been cooking, particularly baking. Meal planning, sweet and savoury dishes and food based activity plans for youth groups

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Listed: Feb 20, 2012

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Meal planning Monday: the wholly disorganised edition

Penelope's Pantry ― It's that time of the week again already. I'm lucky to be having a long weekend so have tomorrow off. However that doesn't exempt me from meal planning. Although M did cook sausage casserole for tea tonight so aside from a loaf of sourdough I've ...

Tags: Roast Beef, At Home With Mrs M, Meal Plan, Leftovers, Meal Planning Monday

Penelope ― 5 days ago

Meal planning Monday: I'm on the train

Penelope's Pantry

Tags: Meal Plan, Meal Planning Monday

Penelope ― 1 week 5 days ago

Outdoor cooking with the Guides

Outdoor cooking with the Guides

Penelope's Pantry ― What do you do on an unexpectedly glorious spring evening? Enjoy a glass of wine? Be brave and test out the BBQ? Light 4 fires and teach 24 girls how to cook on them? ∙ Guess which I chose? ∙ Summer term is when our Guides hit ...

Tags: Fire Safety, Campfire Cooking, Camp Bananas, Guides, Cheese Dreams, Camp Cooking

Penelope ― 2 weeks ago

Guiding and Social Media part two

Guiding and Social Media part two

Penelope's Pantry ― Hopefully you've seen part one of this series, extolling the benefits of using Social media for your Rainbow, Brownie, Guide or Senior Section unit. This is the write up of the intermediate session run by Rosie from CHQ - again if you've not had ...

Tags: Girlguiding, Girl Guiding UK, Social Media, Guides, Brownies

Penelope ― 2 weeks 2 days ago

Chicken marsala... and my Kitchen Heroes

Penelope's Pantry ― Kitchen heroes? Not thinking of a who, but rather a what. When I first started to cook, chicken breasts were a staple ingredient. Now, most of the time I cook with thigh meat as it's less dry, but sometimes a chicken breast is what you need for a...

Tags: Chicken Marsala, Simple Suppers, Marsala, Chicken, By Sainsburys, Sainsburys

Penelope ― 2 weeks 3 days ago

Pretty in pink: Rhubarb rhubarb

Pretty in pink: Rhubarb rhubarb

Penelope's Pantry ― I love rhubarb. Stewed rhubarb on yoghurt is one of my favourite breakfasts (when temperatures aren't arctic) I wish daily that I'd made more of the rhubarb and ginger jam as I ended up giving it all away. However, that's pretty much all I do with...

Tags: Pudding, Baking, Apple Crumble, Crumble, Rhubarb

Penelope ― 2 weeks 4 days ago

Meal planning Monday: the Bank holiday edition

Meal planning Monday: the Bank holiday edition

Penelope's Pantry

Tags: At Home With Mrs M, Meal Plan, Meal Planning Monday

Penelope ― 2 weeks 4 days ago

Guiding and social media part one

Guiding and social media part one

Penelope's Pantry ― Social Media and Guiding don't always seem the most natural fit - I don't know about you, but although I am a prolific *ahem* fairly seasoned blogger, tweeter, facebooker etc, I've not quite got to grips with doing those things as a representative ...

Tags: Girl Guiding UK, Social Media, Guides, Brownies

Penelope ― 2 weeks 6 days ago

Knife skills with the Brownies

Knife skills with the Brownies

Penelope's Pantry ― When you're cooking with children and restricted time-wise, there's undoubtedly the tendency to concentrate on bakes or icing. Those low effort high excitement activities. However, one of the things I'm quite keen on is instilling the fact that...

Tags: Pineapple, Knife Skills, Fruit, Kiwi, Mango, Brownie Holiday

Penelope ― 3 weeks 1 day ago

Rockin' rock cakes

Rockin' rock cakes

Penelope's Pantry ― Apologies for the camera phone photo ∙ Rock cakes are a simple bake. The simplest I can think of in fact. One of the first things I made without parental supervision, and one I revisited this weekend. ∙ The basic recipe is one I ...

Tags: Ideal For Children, Dried Fruit, Baking, Rock Cakes, Quick And Easy

Penelope ― 3 weeks 3 days ago

Meal planning Monday: the 3 day week

Penelope's Pantry ― I've been awol on the meal planning front for a little while. The planning has still been taking pkace, it's the motivation to write it that's absent.This week I've taken today and tomorrow as leave in a bid for a bit of a rest. However, I then ...

Penelope ― 3 weeks 5 days ago

Chocolate chip and pretzel cookies

Chocolate chip and pretzel cookies

Penelope's Pantry ― Salty and sweet is a thing. A real honest to goodness thing. I was out with my lovely sister and my genius nephew (true story) a couple of weeks back, we popped into M&S ostensibly for a cardigan and picked up an elderly lady (also true story)...

Tags: Girl Guiding UK, Cookies, Salty And Sweet, Chocolate Badge, Brownie, Baking

Penelope ― 4 weeks 1 day ago

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