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My favourite pancake recipe

Yes, I’m afraid I have found and fallen in love with a pancake recipe other than my grandmother’s.
Tis that of Jamie Oliver. His ‘USA-style’ pancake recipe produces small, fluffy, lighter pancakes that are so yummy. Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients

3 large eggs
115g/4oz plain flour
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder
140ml/5fl oz milk
a pinch of salt
drop of vanilla essence (my [...]

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FourSquare bringing the nyoms

So today the boy and I eventually decided to head into town and find some nice grub and have a bit of a wander for ourselves. While considering retreating to the Westbury for a cosy sneaky pint I had the geeky brainwave that the Marble Bar in the Westbury was offering a deal on cocktails [...]

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Dolly Mixture 09.02.10 – fluffy pancakes, infographics and Absolut Fringe

Happy Pancake Tuesday*. Here’s my favourite pancake recipe – it’s dead simple but it gives you lovely, fluffy, light little pancakes that are just nyom. (*correction – turns out that Pancake Tuesday isn’t till next week.)
State of the Internet infographic via Mashable. God I’d love to open an infographics gallery I love them [...]

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Dolly Mixture 08.02.10 – volunteers, tea parties and WordPress

Irish Blog Awards needs judges – sign up here.
St. Patrick’s Festival is all go and looking for volunteers.
Carluccio’s to re-open after landlord agrees to cut the rent – nice one Carluccio’s!
Congrats to the Science Gallery on getting nominated for European Museum of the Year. LoveLab opens to the public this Thursday, members-only launch is on [...]

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Dolly Mixture 11.01.10

Donal Skehan’s stew = win.
Open evening this Thursday at the Dublin Institiute of Design. Pop in and you could win a wee course.
Been looking at web app development frameworks for Safari on iPhone lately. If you want something other than Dashcode, check out the iUI Framework and JQTouch. May blog properly about this later on [...]

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