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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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An Elizabeth David recipe - some thoughts
"It is her recipes that I am grateful to have found as they are not traditional and they are not precise" The Simply Luxurious Life...
Oct 17, 2024
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A Google doodle - rendang
I now know that this is a Google doodle , and you can browse their collection of doodles at that link. Loved their little humorous digs...
Aug 22, 2024
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Panackarty, Pan Haggerty ...
"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers." Doug Larson I have just...
Jun 10, 2024
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A lucky dip, a website, lamb and avgolemono
"Avgolemono is just so important to Greeks. But maybe it’s even more important to Greeks who’ve left Greece." Simon Glofit So it began...
Apr 11, 2024
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An abject fridge raid failure
So Ok the selection of ingredients that needed using did not look that enticing - indeed when I looked closer the eggplant just had to go....
Mar 18, 2024
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Norway - stewed mutton and cabbage or Grandiosa frozen pizza?
"There remains a clear gap between the blossoming fine dining scene and the everyday food eaten by most Norwegians and visitors to the...
Mar 3, 2024
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More than potatoes? Irish food.
“I would make the argument, not that it is ‘meh’ but that there isn’t much of it. We do not have a sophisticated cuisine – we just...
Nov 15, 2023
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Not a cassoulet - leftovers 3
"The cassoulet is a dish which may be infinitely varied so long as it is not made into a mockery with a sausage or two heated up with...
Nov 1, 2023
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Hodgepodge
"Hodgepodge: a jumble, a heterogenous mixture" Merriam-Webster Dictionary "a confused mixture, a hotchpotch" Oxford Languages...
Jun 5, 2023
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Beginnings
“Meat is used. You prepare water. You add fine-grained salt, dried barley cakes, onion, Persian shallot, and milk. You crush and add leek...
Apr 27, 2023
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Stewing - when, how, what?
"Believe it or not, there are no right or wrong ways to make stew" Pip Spence on the Jamie Oliver website I'm planning to make a beef...
Apr 15, 2023
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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...
Feb 4, 2023
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Carbonnade Flamande - have I got the right beer?
"It occupies that culinary space that makes it feel like it's both comfort food and a decadent treat." Diversivore I started this...
Aug 4, 2022
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Coq au vin - slow food or quick and easy?
"The entire recipe for coq au vin in one popular cookbook, now in its third printing, read: 'Cut up two broilers. Brown them in butter...
Jul 25, 2022
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La daube provençal - so very, very good
"I have executed, with loyal respect, printed formulas for daubes in the interest of analysis and comparison but, left to my own devices...
May 30, 2022
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Why don't I make curry more often?
"The complex flavours of curries are governed by just three things: generous spicing; onion, ginger and garlic done just right; and...
Apr 24, 2022
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Elizabeth David's Carbonnade Nîmoise
is it 'authentic' or did she make it up? On Saturday we finally ate Carbonnade Nîmoise - a very old favourite recipe of Elizabeth...
Nov 15, 2021
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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...
Oct 9, 2021
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Learning from the grandchildren
I'm not sure that I can call my older grandchildren children anymore. The two oldest are technically teenagers anyway and the next two...
Jul 27, 2021
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