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- Sep 21
Deconstructing Tomates Provençales
"Why mess with perfection?" Jamie of Jamie and Julia I began with this Baked tomatoes, crumbs and herbs from Nigel Slater in a recent...
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- Jun 13
Ottolenghi's tomato tarts
"The best thing to do to overcome feeling downcast and gloomy is to eat tomatoes a few times a week, say researchers." The Health Site I...
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- Mar 14
Tomato sauce - musings
"The kind of sauce that starts with the simplest ingredients—some canned tomatoes, a few aromatics, some olive oil, and maybe some...
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- Feb 4
Brown but so much more
"Colour fades as flavour deepens: a metaphor for much of life I suggest." Nigella Lawson Which is, indeed food for thought. In her book...
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- Jan 30
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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- 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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- 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 12, 2022
The story of last night's dinner
"The cold fact is no matter what new dish we turn a hand to, eventually it will come to taste and look like everything else we’ve ever...
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- Oct 22, 2022
Is it possible to keep it simple - and cheap?
"Simple is easy to get wrong" Neil Perry It seems that Catalonia is the flavour of this week, because here I am about to talk about a...
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- Aug 25, 2022
Define cooking
"Cooking is creating emotion" Joel Robuchon This gorgeous looking dish from a London chef called Meedu Saad is called Fried courgette...
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- Aug 8, 2022
Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book - artichokes and shrimps
"Simplicity may be her key but there is nothing insipid about her food." Please Pass the Recipe The next book along the shelf in my Jane...
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- Jul 30, 2022
Crumbs
"something you wish to share with your online friends." Urban Dictionary "a small fragment" Merriam-Webster Actually I think that first...
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- Jul 23, 2022
From Aqua Pazza to Fish poached in charred tomato broth
"There are many different variations of this sauce, from light broths, to thick tomato based sauces, which have been found on all types...
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- Jul 11, 2022
A lost recipe - losing my mind
“It’s pretty confusing.” “Good. Be confused. Confusion is where inspiration comes from.” Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker The other day - I...
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- Jun 30, 2022
"The most exciting meal of my life"
This is me, roundabout the age of fifteen I think, and so a little older than when I experienced the most exciting meal of my life. It's...
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- Mar 15, 2022
When politics creeps into cooking - Maqluba and Yotam Ottolenghi
"Thanks to Ottolenghi’s best-selling books, we now have 'Ottolenghi hummus' and — believe it or not — 'Ottolenghi maqluba.' The latter...
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- Jan 9, 2022
Indian picnics - a relic of the raj
"In India, eating is a private affair not to be witnessed by onlookers, and it is regarded as improper to eat in the open. Besides, it...
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- Nov 13, 2021
Mutti - tomatoes not Angela Merkel
"Mutti is the tomato you buy when you want to impress your mates." Matt Shea - Broadsheet The ad shown here from the back of the Coles...
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- Oct 9, 2021
Dinner brings memories of yesteryear
"food memories. They aren’t just based on the facts, or our need for survival, but are shaped by the context ― the company, the situation...
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- Aug 25, 2021
Cherry tomatoes and pasta - so many ways
"While the cherry tomato has been around in one way or another for centuries, its commercialization and popularization is thanks to Marks...
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