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Rice Krispie Marshmallow Squares were one of the very first things I learned to cook when I was a kid and they always bring back fond memories.

Here's how you make them.

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Sometimes, you just need something quick, easy and tasty for lunch. Noodle soup fits the bill on all three counts. It just takes a couple of minutes to chop up a few ingredients and stir fry them, and around three minutes to cook the noodles. If you don't have any stock hanging around, you can use a good quality instant stock—I often use Marigold.

Once you've mastered the basic recipe, you can easily modify to suit whatever you happen to have lurking around at the time. In the version shown below, spinach is used. Feel free to try anything else though—a few mushrooms, perhaps, or some pak choi. Equally, a little thinly sliced chicken breast, or a few prawns, wouldn't go amiss.

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Whenever I think of comfort food, the first thing that pops into my mind is rice pudding. Soft, creamy and very, very comforting. Must be baked, not cooked on the stove top, and served hot, not cold.

This particular one is flavoured with cinnamon and star anise, with a little orange zest.

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I was looking for something to do with a couple of chicken breasts tonight, so I came up with this. It wasn't half bad.

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Roast Pumpkin, Garlic and Chilli Soup garnished with roasted pumpkin seeds.

Here's how to make it:

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Easy to make and very, very tasty - crispy fried chicken in a salt and pepper batter, together with a great way of using up whatever vegetable you happen to have lying about.

Here are the recipes:

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The theme this week in Friday Food Fiesta is "Curry", so it seemed appropriate to make Lamb Dopiaza. Dopiaza means something like "two onions" and is so called because it has two types of onions in. The sauce contains finely chopped onions in as a base, much like many other curries. At the end of cooking, you also add some finely sliced onions that have been slowly fried until they have developed a red-brown colour. Delicious.

Here we have Lamb Dopiaza, Sag Aloo and Spiced Basmati Rice.

I've just received my parcel from the first Flickr Food Swap, courtesy of coffeefloat in Indonesia. It's full of fabulous things - thank you very much! I'm looking forward to trying them all now!

We have:

Kerupuk Bawang - Inonesian crackers made from tapioca flour and garlic.
Bumbu Kalasan - a Javanese marinade
Bawang Goreng - fried shallots
Tong Tji - Jasmine Tea
Garuda Kedele Spicy - Spicy soya bean snack

coffeefloat also provided a very nice long letter containing an excellent description of what everything was, which was very helpful!