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- 4 hours ago
Robert Carrier, tomatoes and indexes
"Cook dinner with Robert Carrier and you’ll need butter, cream, wine and quite a lot of cognac" Jay Rayner It's guru week - by which I...
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- 3 days ago
Whim whams
"This kind of thing is more a delicious mouthful at the end of a meal, than a pudding." Jane Grigson It's not the end of a meal - I'm...
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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 21
A new favourite thing - baked polenta
"While these days polenta often appears on menus, I don't think I'm the only one who's struggling to get round to cooking it at home....
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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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- Jan 14
From peas to plin and a cookbook
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." Douglas Adams The eternal question -...
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- Jan 12
The umami battle of the 'mites' (mar,vege,pro,aussie...)
"Marmite is a British icon. Vegemite is an Australian icon. Since Brits and Aussies have sporting rivalries, mischievous senses of humour...
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- Jan 11
By the way
"By the way - used to introduce a new subject to be considered or to give further information" Cambridge English Dictionary Yes it's one...
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- Jan 10
A summer afternoon with Elizabeth David
"After all, it is summer. You are on holiday. You are in company of your own choosing. The air is clean. You can smell wild fennel...
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- Jan 7
An almost perfect tomato tart
"Use of lime juice, tomatoes and spice in some recipes is amazing!" An Amazon reviewer I've spoken about tomato tarts before - how...
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- Jan 6
Twelfth night
"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree." It's Twelfth Night. Well the day that my family...
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- Jan 4
Rambling around a bread challenge
"the satisfaction of one answer merely leads to asking another question, and so on into infinity." Alberto Manguel David bought this...
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- Jan 2
First recipe, first book
"The only way to eat superb Indian food, with a guarantee of variety, quality and freshness of ingredients, is to learn to cook it for...
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- Dec 30, 2022
I have six egg yolks
"they are a magical ingredient that can transform a drab dish into something divine and spectacular." Tom Hunt You might remember that...
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- Dec 28, 2022
Reading recipes
"mistakes can sometimes have wonderful outcomes" Barbara Sweeney I think I have sort of done this a long, long, time ago, but a couple...
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- Dec 27, 2022
Dinner on 9 June 1979
"You are going to love this : I unearthed the menu you served on 9 June 1979" Wendy Wendy is a friend from long ago, and now a faithful...
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- Dec 20, 2022
Christmas dilemmas
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” Garrison Keillor I'm...
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- Dec 16, 2022
So much lettuce
"Lettuce is not mere padding or blank backdrop for more exotic or shouty salad ingredients – it's a summer vegetable as worthy of...
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- Dec 15, 2022
Bubble and squeak
"As kitchen recycling goes, this is probably the most useful of all, neatly dispensing with those most difficult of leftovers." Nigel...
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- Dec 5, 2022
Mint sauce(s)
"when done right, mint sauce is the key to turning casual summer dinners into something special." Salon.com I spent the morning weeding...
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