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Every cook needs a good basic tomato sauce base. This forms the foundation for so many recipes: pizza, tomato based pasta, sauces for meats or fish. Learn this well, adapt with other flavours to make it your own and you…
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It’s totally possible to make fantastic pizza at home in a conventional oven. All you need is a can do attitude and a pizza stone to cook them on. This latter item is vital (as is the former, really!): you…
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Global Vegetarian Week is coming up and I’ve set myself the challenge of offering some less meaty recipes to the readers of this blog. There are some truly marvellous things that can be cooked up without the need for meat…
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Granita is a frozen ice dessert – delicate, intensely flavoured flakes of chill, crystalline wonderfulness. It is the ideal dinner party dessert because you can bang it up way in advance and simply serve at the point of desire. This…
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This week I had an old friend over for dinner. This is someone I grew up with, someone whom I explored the trappings of village adolescence with; smoking in the village park, deceiving our parents with stories of sleepovers whilst…
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Recently on a trip to Rome I made an epic discovery in a little bakery, down a shady side street by the Pantheon: Brutti Ma Buoni. Exquisite little biscuits made from a meringue base and nuts. Crisp outside like the…
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A basic, but delicious tomato, basil and chilli sauce with oodles of garlic. Serve with pasta or as an accompaniment for various other dishes, e.g. the Las Bombas featured earlier on FoodGoblin – see here. RecipeIngredients…
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