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    Red pepper, toms beans & hake

    13 September 2026 - By 

    … Only without red peppers andsun dried tomatoes … Only without red peppers and sun dried tomatoes … Which are key. Buggered for peppers, but I roasted segments of tomatoes for 30 minutes to simulate sun dried toms, which worked well… This is good. Full of flavour, nutritional yeast is yummy, and the textures are great. Hake remains a real favourite, perfect firmness. Very filling and high protein. The tahini is adding very little, I feel like it is lost and zing or other freshness would be better here. Recipe I struxtions feel half arsed, again. The new doctor’s kitchen…

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    Banoffee cake

    30 May 2026 - By 

    This is actually very like the banana bread recipe I’ve had in mind in the past, using a sticky toffee pudding recipe as the base, but with added banana. The cream and chocolate are a wonderful addition. Will worth playing around with, also. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/may/22/hazelnut-banoffee-cake-recipe-benjamina-ebuehi

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    Fried Butter Beans

    25 May 2026 - By 

    Used a packet of cooked beans here in place of the laborious soaking and cooking prices required of dried beans, and while it was very tasty, I think it’s a dish that would benefit greatly from the firmness of a dried bean. These tend towards mush. a hugely flexible recipe though, easy to amend with more veg, and chestnuts, for example. vibrancy from the sumac, spell and lemon are a treat. From Plenty, pg. 214

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    Sheldo’s Mapo Tofu

    4 March 2026 - By 

    this is missing some of the deep savory flavor of the recipe from every grain of rice, so I would modify, not use ketchup… But the technique here is more helpful than other recipes, with temp guidelines and a good drive consistency achieved. A note for all recipes is that I think grinding the szechuan peppers more finely should be preferred. https://www.recipeshare.app/recipes/mapo-tofu-masterclass-sheldos-kitchen

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    Tartiflette

    24 December 2025 - By 

    Wonderful, very simple version of this savoie, heart attack facilitating classic as interpreted by Raymond Blanc. Somehow not terribly heavy, and very moreish. Shall salad an essential accompaniment. Easily the best version I’ve tried. The recipe calls for 150g vaccine l comte, 150g roblochon. I used about 500g roblochon as it’s what we had, which worked without problem (as if it were in doubt), but I would not hesitate to try the 50\50 split. I also delgazed with a healthy amount of white wine, not in the recipe, but I would prefer this as I believe it lightens the sauce…

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    Kadai Paneer

    16 December 2025 - By 

    I love this curry. The attempt inspired by a video of an old Indian women processing the cooking of industrial quantities of this to feed a school. A little research later and I decided that this was a close approximation of what she was doing in that. Quite often this kind of process, ending up in picking a random recipe from the internet, does not produce consistent results. However I stumbled into perfection with this one. I think frying the paneer as a first step is a good move, cutting the video rather than the recipe… but I don’t really…

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    Rajma Makhani

    16 December 2025 - By 

    A bean curry! Very nice comforting, wholesome. Not sure this is an authentic version, but it is very nice. From Rupi Cooks, Pg. 196

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    Chop Chop

    16 December 2025 - By 

    Delicious and simple, really excellent. Looking like a very promising collection of recipes, up to this point. Leon, One Pot, Pg. 36