What's your guilty pleasure?

[Rhona]

Funny that - I've just opened an email from a friend who also loves it and asked if I'd got a recipe! (PS I have!)

Oohhh... please share! Anthony's Restuarant in Leeds (Michelin, etc.) does a duck canneloni in which the 'canneloni' is thinly sliced Soreen. He admits to buying it in as no-one can make it better. *Thunk* (the sound of a gauntlet being thrown down to Flum) - I think you should send him some of yours!

[bubblewrap]

Bateman's XXXB, Old Speckled Hen, Wadworth's 6X, Brakspears Triple.

[Nicos]

Oh please don't be mean to me..I can't get it here- and now I'm REALLY missing a thick, sticky well buttered piece ( 1" crust from either end please!!!)

I'd love to have a go too Flum!!

[Flummery]

Makes 2 medium loaves

1 lb self raising flour
2 level tsps bicarb
4 tablespoons golden syrup
4 tablespoons malt extract
half pint milk
2 eggs
2 teacups raisins or sultanas

Sift flour and soda into a bowl
Melt syrup and malt in a pan with milk and add with beaten eggs to the flour.
Stir in fruit.
Pour into greased tins (cake or bread) and bake in fairly hot oven - 400-375F, gas 5-6
Cook for 40 - 50 mins

Get out the butter!

If you want it sort of rubbery like the shop stuff, try cooling it in a teatowel. Keeps it moist.

[BrideXIII]

1/4 lb of handmade champagne truffles from a little shop in Arundel.

guilty cos of the price

[jaykay]

Switching off from the world with my mp3, listening to Take That and looking forward to 5th June: the stadium tour at Sunderland!

[slabbit]

cheese and strawberry jam on digestive and a large Guinness cocktail

[janeyo]

If I'm feeling poorly, I love to watch Grease, Dirty dancing, Pretty Woman and the BBC (Colin Firth) Pride and Prejudice on one after the other!

[NOG]

Mine is an Orange, I frogmans suit and a tory MP....But I am not going in to any more details.

[kirsty b]

Um, what's to feel guilty about Harry Potter books...?

Just what I was thinking!

I flick through the celeb gossip mags while in the shop and not buy them! Chocolate, wine, nice things, make up. I get such a buzz when I buy something new for the make up bag

[Flummery]

Just edited the malt loaf recipe to add the cooking time - for people who don't do "Cook till done" type of things!

[HeyWayne]

I try not to feel guilty about pleasure.

However, I'm supposed to cut back on fatty/salty foods due to cholestrerol issues. So I suppose I should feel guilty about the Friday night vindaloo I enjoy - especially when it arrives with a pool of ghee on top.

Marmite and cheese on toast is also a rarity these days.

[Nicos]

Thanks Flum!

[daleclarke]

After reading this I now feel Guilty about never feeling Guilty.



PS The OH says I should feel guilty being on here instead of Hoovering, but I don't...

[Flummery]

I don't feel guilty about much either Dale. Managed to escape my Catholic upbringing! My Ma feels guilty about EVERYTHING!