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Khachapuri Imeruli
"For a population of less than 4 million, Georgia has more than 20 regional cheese breads" Alice Zaslavsky I have suddenly realised...
4 hours ago
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Mouthfuls
Mouthful "an amount of food or drink that fills your mouth, or that you put into your mouth at one time" Cambridge English Dictionary...
1 day ago
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Broccoli, pasta - ordinary - but ...
"What’s courageous about the timeless combination of broccoli and pasta?" Deb Perelman/Smitten Kitchen The answer is nothing of course. ...
3 days ago
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Easter - done✓ Now I can relax
This is Australia. It's not spring, it's autumn. So there is no connection to the symbolism of the pagan fertility, or the Christian...
4 days ago
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Chaat
"anything – crisps, samosas, leftover chana masala – can be chaat" Diya Mukherjee/Vittles I have been increasingly aware of late of...
Apr 8
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Black bottom oatmeal pie
"Women judge a pie by its crust, men by its filling." Sue Hubbell/The New Yorker To be honest I'm on the verge of abandoning this post,...
Apr 4
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Classic Thai - a first recipe
"I would definitely classify this as one of the world's greatest soups. I have enjoyed it for some twenty years and have never had quite...
Apr 2
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Oatcakes
"are they one step up from the dreaded rice cake in your pantheon of worthy but dull foods?" Felicity Cloake After yesterday's...
Mar 28
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Crispy fried eggs
"Anything topped with a crispy, runny fried egg is a winner in my eyes!!" Jamie Oliver Above is my inspiration for today Spaghetti...
Mar 25
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Punjab - five rivers, five spices
No I haven't jumped from the Caribbean to India on my world tour of food. This is a lucky dip recipe which has led me here and there,...
Mar 18
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Chickpeas and pasta
"one of the most deliciously frugal and honest platefuls I know." Rachel Roddy "a healing dose of starch on starch." Katie Leaird I...
Mar 16
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Baked feta pasta - Again
"It's endlessly adaptable, all but foolproof. Most of all, it's just really, really good." Mary Elizabeth Williams/Salon Uninspired as...
Mar 9
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Soused herrings - moments
"Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?" Jennifer Donnelly I remember. I...
Mar 5
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Blitzing - is that the right word?
"He who analyses blitz is stupid." Rashid Nezhmetdinov I think the above quote applies to a technical chess thing - the quoter is/was a...
Mar 3
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Saturday's 5 star Ottolenghi crêpes + ...
"My freezer is stocked up with cooked crepes (an ingenious idea I nicked off a friend) that take minutes to warm up from frozen in the...
Mar 2
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Culinary (con)fusion - pasta adobo
"It is always funny when we realise our cultures overlap more than we differ." Greatist My sources for blog posts come from all sorts of...
Feb 24
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Playing the game of three
"I can’t find plain flour for love nor money, so I have been baking apples with marmalade and the dregs of the sherry bottle instead" ...
Feb 20
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February - beginnings and endings
"the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they...
Feb 11
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French toast
"French toast tackles pancakes head on and smashes it." Claire Thomson Yesterday's New York Times recipe offering - no picture - was...
Feb 9
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New now old
"Vegetables are savagely beautiful things." Jill Dupleix This is a quickie - something simple to end my day of hard labour over those...
Jan 31
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