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A great, hearty and actually tasty salad of big, greedy meats and iron-rich spinach. Delicious. I love big flavours and certainly can never get excited about dainty wee salads of iceberg, perhaps with fricasse. The worst offenses are those that…
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Its always nice to have a cake around the house. This is a particularly nice one, I think. The rum and raisins give it a bit of warmth, the pineapple curd is sweet, sharp and unctuous and the cream cheese…
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Who likes Lemon Curd? On toast maybe? Perhaps a nice scone, as a filling to a cake, maybe just chucked on top of ice cream? Anyway, I do. I also like pineapples. I once found a plastic pineapple in a…
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Not only is beef great to make burgers with, but pork is too. It has a high enough fat content to make a burger juicy and flavoursome and it marries well with spicing. Try it for a pleasant change from…
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Homemade burger recipe number 2 – Indian! A nice spicy blend of spices meets a big old whack of good quality beef. Serve with Raita (natural yoghurt with chopped coriander, a bit of lime juice, sometimes some mint and a…
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Okay…so Summer may be over but you can keep it alive by whipping up some homemade burgers and ‘stickin’ them on the barby’ (/on the hob in your kitchen)! Don’t bother buying them ready made from the supermarket – make…
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Mackerel, in my view, is a totally underused fish. Delicious, full of healthy fishy oils and vitamins and sustainable, as well as being an utterly beautiful fish aesthetically. Its scales shine like spilled petrol and when grilled take on a…
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