Category Archives: Recipes
Making breakfast pastries, Istanbul style
On a couple of recent business trips to Istanbul I’ve been fortunate to stay in a residence where an amazing breakfast spread was prepared from the small kitchen each day. Cheeses, fruit, meat all laid out – plus some baked … Continue reading
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An evening with the cook in a curry
I love learning new things so when I saw Maunika Gowardhan‘s classes advertised I jumped at the chance. Like most people in the UK, I’m no stranger to Indian food, but I wanted to better understand the difference between home … Continue reading
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Recreating the Chicken Parmo experience at home
It’s a brave food blogger who takes on a modern regional classic! I was interested to see this recipe to create the Teesside favourite of chicken parmo for a dining-in audience. The WWfoodie offers the full ingredients and methods for … Continue reading
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Taste of summer with broad bean puree
I’ve come to broad beans late in life. As a youngster I used to hate their leathery skins and bitter taste, only getting them down me out of a sense of duty instilled from being polite to people who prepare … Continue reading
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Cookbooks explored by Bakelady
If you’re still looking for some inspiration on which cook books to buy in the sales, a visit to the Bakelady’s blog today could cut down on the research. In her post, Some of my favourite cookbooks she takes a … Continue reading
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Christmas dinner extras
One of the best things about Christmas lunch is all the extras so I thought I’d get prepared and gather together some of the recipes for all the accompaniments for the main course. Honey-glazed carrots recipe – Recipes – BBC … Continue reading
Wartime lessons for the modern cook
This seemed a fitting thing to blog about on Remembrance Sunday, a cookbook which teaches a lesson about making do and reminds us that the kitchen hasn’t always been about cling-wrapped, imported abundance. The Thrifty Kitchen is now on sale … Continue reading
Entertaining on the cheap: Become a bunny boiler
What is it with us English and the humble rabbit? While the rest of Europe put this delicate meat at heart of a host of dishes, we seem to shy away from using it. I blame Watership Down, or maybe … Continue reading
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Making sloe gin for Christmas
According to the sloe forum (strapline, there’s no biz like sloe.biz!), the August fruits from the blackthorn bush are too early for picking to make the traditional gin drink. But, having been presented with a carrier bag of the little … Continue reading
Filed under Christmas 2009, Recipes
A lesson in the perfect gin and tonic
Wine writer Victoria Moore believes there’s a need for instruction in how to create that quintessentially English drink. In a chapter of the new book How to Drink she says; “A G&T is the most dreadfully traduced of drinks, all … Continue reading
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