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Sfouf cake
Working my way through my email newsletters and looking for something relatively quick and simple I came across the above in a newsletter...
21 hours ago


Belize - do you know anything about it?
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Eat nothing but fry jacks!” Anon I'm continuing my world foodie tour and have...
3 days ago


I found it - sort of
"Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones." Stephen King Remember yesterday my despair at not finding the tube of hot...
Apr 26


Chaat
"anything – crisps, samosas, leftover chana masala – can be chaat" Diya Mukherjee/Vittles I have been increasingly aware of late of...
Apr 8


A gallimaufry
Gallimaufry: "a confused jumble or medley of things" Oxford Langauges "a meat stew called galimafrée" Merriam-Webster There's your new...
Dec 2, 2024


Chicken and green peppercorns for dinner
“It was there all the time: That small, green, aromatic, fresh berry that eventually becomes our common black or white peppercorn was...
Nov 30, 2024


Nigel's essential marinades
"little kitchen lifesavers" Nigel Slater This is the last of my Nigel's A Cook's Book Essentials - a group of first recipes, and these...
Nov 16, 2024


Last night's dinner
'A mashup between a Western steak and a Chinese stir-fry" Marc Matsumoto/No Recipes In an attempt to tick off my 'new' dish for the week,...
Oct 13, 2024


Coffee rubs
"It works particularly well with chilli, smoky foods, barbecued meat and chocolate" Tom Hunt/The Guardian Well we sort of knew that...
Aug 1, 2024


Chicken, saffron, almonds - a Spanish lucky dip
"I felt a little dubious about the combination of ingredients before testing it, the red wine gives a rich colour and flavour, the...
Jun 24, 2024


Chermoula - and fish
"The object of the chermoula seasoning is not to mask the natural taste of the food, but enhance it." Robert Carrier I'm pretty sure I...
Apr 12, 2024


Tajín - a quickie
"So why should you use Tajin? Simply put, it just makes so many things taste better." Nancy Lopez-McHugh/The Spruce Eats I'm not a huge...
Mar 21, 2024


Allspice
"Everything is in there: it gives you a hint of cinnamon, nutmeg, that pepper-y, clove-y taste, all of these different flavours out of...
Feb 12, 2024


Cauliflower, saffron, anchovies + ...
"As always, we never seem to do the ingredient du jour by halves" Nigel Slater It's an unbelievably, considering it's summer, wet,...
Dec 9, 2023


"Comfort food stepped up a bit"
"Deb is a firm believer that there are no bad cooks, just bad recipes." GoodReads You can probably tell it's a mildly uninspired day -...
Nov 26, 2023


Hot and crunchy - black pepper
"as with olive oil, salt and other basics we once considered boring, pepper is going gourmet." Jon Henley/The Guardian "Hot beans on...
Nov 25, 2023


Flummery
"The word 'flummery' later came to have generally pejorative connotations of a bland, empty, and unsatisfying food. From this use,...
Sep 11, 2023


Dribs and drabs
"In small scattered or sporadic amounts." Oxford Languages "In small amounts, a few at a time." Cambridge Dictionary It's Sunday, and...
Aug 27, 2023


Welsh cakes
"Unforgettably flaky, tender, almost melt-in-your-mouth texture that’s punctuated with sweet currants and laced with a wonderful hint of...
Jul 12, 2023


Mishmash
Mishmash "untidy or confused mixture of different things" Macmillan Dictionary "a random bunch of odds and ends" Vocabulary.com...
Jul 5, 2023