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Mishmashing cauliflower cheese soup
"mishmash: a confused mixture" So today I presented my cauliflower cheese soup to my book group colleagues and they pronounced it good. ...
Oct 14, 2024
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'A soup of cauliflower and cheese'
"maybe, just maybe, this might be the cauliflower cheese soup I have been searching for all my life. This might be the one that wouldn't...
Oct 11, 2024
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On commenting and how to choose what's for dinner
"The recipe comments function like a virtual watering hole where strangers swap tips and stories and occasionally the stray insight."...
Jul 31, 2024
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Self-doubt and a recipe
"So much of the very best food is like this, which is to say a huge bloody mess. It lies on the plate or in the bowl, looking like...
Jul 24, 2024
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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
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Bland - some thoughts and a recipe
"Bland: lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting. Unseasoned, mild-tasting, or insipid." Oxford Languages...
Jun 16, 2023
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Shreds
"a strip of material, such as paper, cloth, or food, that has been torn, cut, or scraped from something larger." Oxford Languages...
Apr 5, 2023
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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...
Mar 15, 2022
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A new kind of cauliflower cheese
"Cheese lava in filo form." Ever since I got Ottolenghi's latest book Shelf Love I have been dying to make this. Well virtually...
Feb 28, 2022
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A recipe - cultural appropriation?
This is a Tarte Tatin - they are truly everywhere it seems to me. But of course it is also very definitely not a Tarte Tatin - that...
Jul 10, 2021
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Oddments for the end of the week
"an item or piece of something, typically one left over from a larger piece or set." Oxford English Dictionary My excuse today is lack...
Mar 12, 2021
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