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Jul 23, 2024
My kitchen bit by bit - 2
"Anything can be a lodestar in a person's life, I suppose, and for some fortunates like me, the kitchen serves well." MFK Fisher Which...
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Mar 22, 2024
An earnest blogger
"So this is it. I have to cook every dish in the book as written by Jane – even if it contains something I don’t like, e.g. whiskey and...
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Jan 16, 2024
How basic can you get? Bread sauce
"Bread sauce: pure, holy, special, gentle, and kind." Ruby Lott-Lavigna/Vice (The version above is Easy bread sauce from James Martin,...
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Dec 19, 2023
Christmas is ... cherries
"Oddly enough in a world where seasons of fruit and vegetables have broken down completely, where many are available much of the time,...
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Nov 21, 2023
Noble thistles
"The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive...
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Aug 28, 2023
Deliciously English
"sometimes it takes years of looking at other countries to realise how wonderful your own actually is." Jamie Oliver I'm sort of killing...
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Mar 3, 2023
Pears and prunes
" He doesn't bore you with gracious cadence and profound emptiness" Jane Grigson Well I suspect that I am about to bore you but probably...
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Feb 9, 2023
In the middle of France is Berry
"a province unharmed by too many visitors in spite of the reputation of Georges Sand, Alain Fournier and Bourges Cathedral - and of the...
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Jan 27, 2023
Whim whams
"This kind of thing is more a delicious mouthful at the end of a meal, than a pudding." Jane Grigson It's not the end of a meal - I'm...
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Oct 5, 2022
Charter pie
"the 'Charter'. Was it sweet or savoury? Was it in fact food at all?" Jane Grigson It begins with this man - Parson Woodforde a Norfolk...
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Sep 27, 2022
Good things = kippers
"Eat with horseradish sauce, good bread and a poached egg - if you fancy - and tease every last morsel from the spine bones and head. ...
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Sep 2, 2022
National cuisines and in defence of the English one
"A tapestry and patchwork quilt that embraces the best of the old traditions as well as the newer additions to our repertoire, which are...
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Sep 1, 2022
Ajo blanco - I'm confused
"Despite the name of the soup, garlic is rarely the principal ingredient in ajo blanco, which I would characterise instead as an almond...
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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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Jun 27, 2022
Jane Grigson and the apple of paradise
“She thought food was the key to unlocking life,” Sophie Grigson This is one of my First Recipe posts - the book in question being Jane...
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Jun 4, 2022
Duxelles - a first recipe
"A few spoonfuls can be used to cut out the early stages of those many recipes which begin with onion and mushrooms sweated slowly...
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Dec 7, 2021
Jane Grigson's Chocolate pie - a lucky dip
"Chocolate pie chocolate pie! This is the best thing he’s made so far hands down. Dark chocolate, cream, booze, icing sugar, sugar,...
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