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Eating out: baked sweet potato and tahini
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Simple, but very nice. Tahini yoghurt dressed baked sweet potato, seasoned, some sunflower seeds and not much else really. Properly baked, so that there’s color and texture rather than from…
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Lentils & Israeli Couscous
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Nigel Slater – Kitchen Diaries 3, pg. 383 So I have to say this was the first thing that hasn’t gone down too well with either of us. To the…
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Chicken, Squash & Beans
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Leon, pg. 231 The marinade is crucial here, almost does a cerviche kinda thing… Only it’s chicken, so don’t eat it until you apply some heat. Pumpkins were oddly difficult…
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Comforting lentil soup
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Nigel Slater – Appetite, pg. 205 Really excellent. Don’t change a thing… Other than the suggestion of cooking the spinach before hand, which is a silly idea, just bung it…
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Rice Pudding
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So I used Felicity Cloake’s perfect recipe, albeit without the double cream… And it didn’t go well. The milk curdled, I think because of the lemon zest, which I would…
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Honey-fried Saganaki
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Rik Stein – Venice to Istanbul, pg. 49 This was a lovely mezze. The soda bead with the delicious saganaki and other bits. The oregano, pepper, poppy seed mix really…
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Breakfast Soda Bread
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Dan Lepard – Short & Sweet, pg 51 29/09/2018 Used a mix of plain flour, rye and self-raising, only due to what was in the cupboard. Also greek yoghurt. These…
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Almond filled shortbread
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From Nigel Slater – Kitchen Diaries 3, pg 206 They don’t quite look like his, with the saucer like edges and the bulge in the middle. More like glorious mounds…
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Stuffed Peppers, no carbs
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Tom Kerridge – Lose Weight, pg. 196 There might be something to using feta or halloumi instead of mozzarella here, I felt most of it had melted away and burnt…
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Slow-Cooked Short Rib
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Done in the slow cooker for 5 or 6 hours. Removed the meat at the end and thickened the sauce on the hob (after skimming the fat). Anya potatoes are…