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- 4 days ago
French/Indian - did it happen?
"even while the European powers ruled, none of them had any effect on the basic diet of the local people. Rice, mainly 'boiled' rice ,...
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- Jan 15
Grilled fish Bali style
"Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start." Anthony Bourdain This is a lucky dip because I am completely uninspired...
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- Nov 29, 2022
Green tomatoes - not always fried
"fried green tomatoes are only "Southern" because a movie made them that way." Sam Dean/Bon Appétit Yes I know - it's the wrong time of...
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- Nov 22, 2022
Chicken and dates from New York
"The “prunes were very much Marrakech tagines; the green olives were Marbella, Spain.” That sounds about right. But, the sugar is pure...
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- Oct 14, 2022
Still life
"simple, wholesome food standing on a sill or held in air by the hand of a geometer and poet adept at ordering a world of marvels: did he...
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- Aug 20, 2022
Tonnato - not what it used to be
"It’s like that Dr. Seuss book everyone gets when they graduate—Oh the Places You’ll Go!—but for a mayo-based sauce. Inspiring." Alex...
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- Jul 20, 2022
A new lucky dip - an old book
"This is not the cuisine for the housewife-in-a-hurry. But if time is available, how can it be better spent, how used to give greater...
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- Jul 5, 2022
Fatima's fingers - Greg Malouf or Coles?
"Dubai’s a really tough place to be cooking Middle Eastern food. Middle Easterners have not embraced anything modern about their cuisine...
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- Jun 26, 2022
Sicily - too much for a lucky dip
"dinners for the rich and food for the poor" Guiseppe Pitrè It's time I dealt with my Claudia Roden The Food of Italy lucky dip. It's...
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- Apr 26, 2022
Curry from the jungle - a lucky dip
The dish shown above is not Jungle curry. It is a dish called Pork curry with eggplant from an old Women's Weekly booklet Easy...
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- Mar 2, 2022
Lucky dip - how's my diet going?
"it may well be that our bodies just learn to cope better with a fast, in other words, you'd have to keep up the fasting routine forever...
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- Jan 30, 2022
I do like to be beside the seaside
Such is my lack of inspiration at the moment I am today combining two of my writer's block stimuli - a moment in time and a lucky dip. I...
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- Jan 25, 2022
Japanese (sansai udon) from Madhur Jaffrey
"Most of the vegetables Keiko used grew wild in the hills around her. Each had been cooked separately and then arranged over the noodles...
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- Jan 11, 2022
Scrambled eggs
"Scrambled eggs are eggs at their most egalitarian: socialism in inexpensive, edible ovoid form." Tony Naylor - The Guardian Life is...
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- Dec 7, 2021
Jane Grigson's Chocolate pie - a lucky dip
"Chocolate pie chocolate pie! This is the best thing he’s made so far hands down. Dark chocolate, cream, booze, icing sugar, sugar,...
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- Nov 26, 2021
Turkish sweets - a lucky dip
"Let's eat sweet, talk sweet" Turkish saying My lucky dip book this time is one of Claudia Roden's, and actually one of my favourite...
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- Oct 28, 2021
Sauce soubise
"I think of soubise as the cashmere jumper of sauces. Nothing can compete with its soft, cosseting qualities." Nigel Slater Maybe I...
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- Sep 16, 2021
I failed - lucky dip
"failure is funny, and makes for great story-telling" Claire Lower - Lifehacker The above is what I was aiming for last night for dinner....
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- Sep 1, 2021
Sorrel - a lucky dip
"this vibrant leaf with an inbuilt wow factor" Yotam Ottolenghi It's possible I have written about sorrel before, but my browsing of my...
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- Jul 21, 2021
Chip butties - the north/south divide
"Hard liquor and soft drugs aside, the chip butty is the most reliable way we human beings have to mentally shut out this harsh world...
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