Category: Blog
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Vanilla Fairy Cakes
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Excellent, airy fairy cake recipe, and a remarkably smooth butter cream that works well in the context on the whole, and even more so with an added, sliced and macerated…
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Bream with Celery & Avgolemono Sauce
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Wonderful way to cook bream, a lovely, firm flavourful and unavoidably spiky fish. The avegolemono sauce is a creamy one, achieved in a carbonara like fashion, delicate flavoured the…
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No-Bake Cheesecake and Red Berry Coulis
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An extremely nice recipe I would happily try again. Although not exactly on trend there is a part of me that is beginning to suspect that I simply prefer non-baked…
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Trout and… flaked almonds?
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Many of the listed ingredients were missing when it came to it, one of the two title ingredients of almonds being chief among them. And those that I had were…
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Pancit Canton
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Wonderful quick noodle dish, made luxurious with nice, big, juicy expensive prawns, but these could be substituted for a more economical version. Used matchsticked leeks in place of ripped cabbage…
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Greek Chicken Pie
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This is such a magnificent pie, and I can only dream of how wonderful it would be had I not forgotten to leave out the jellied stock that I so…
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Quesadillas with sweet potatoes, chorizo and sweetcorn
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From Rick Stein, The Road To Mexico pg. 59
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Almond and Lemon Cake
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I adore this cake. It’s plain, it’s simple, it doesn’t rise in any notable way, I was skeptical. But it’s beautiful, dense and fudgy and lemony. I modified the icing…
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Pasteis de Nata
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It’s not often you find the perfect recipe for what you’re making first time, but this is pretty much it. Just outstanding. Only change is consider is perhaps a little…