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Nigel Slater

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    Sour cream chicken

    29 March 2019 - By 

    This is really excellent, not quite super quick at around 40 minutes, but fast enough and very low effort with most of the time being simmering. Just delicious, the sweet but piquant flavour created out of few simple ingredients and it would be great with rice equally as with the Anya potatoes I used. The cooking method described for the tiny shallots was a revelation, to drop them all in a bowl of boiling water for a few minutes makes a usually fiddly process of peeling them far more agreeable. From Nigel Slater – Kitchen Diaries 3, pg. 149

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    Gnocchi and Dolcellate bake

    15 January 2019 - By 

    Artery clogging indulgence. Extremely nice, although rather longer in the oven to really brown up was required in this case, I think. A slight tweak might be to add a few eggs to the cream mixture, in the interest of setting the liquid a little and making the whole thing a little more unctuous.  Though perhaps longer in the oven, or a little more than the recommended quantity of cheese would also achieve this. From Nigel Slater – Kitchen Diaries III, pg. 505

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    Fresh Thai Curry

    11 December 2018 - By 

    Hm. I have to say I’m not blown away with this recipe. I don’t think it’s the clearest set of instructions I’ve ever read, leaving much to interpret. This is a challenge if you’re not intrinsically familiar with this style of food. What I created was fine, but certainly not Nigel Slater’s intended outcome, nor like the best fresh, zingy Thai curries I’ve had. Be it tiredness, lack of skill or recipe ambiguity, I choose to blame the latter as it’s the only one that isn’t my own fault. Try a different recipe for green curries. From Nigel Slater –…

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    Lentils & Israeli Couscous

    3 October 2018 - By 

    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 extent that Lisa couldn’t even finish because she wasn’t so keen on the sultanas and apricots in the lentil couscous bubble mix.  So I packed away her bowl for my lunch tomorrow and she packed away an impressive mountain of cheese with lashings of the chilli jam I made earlier.  I didn’t have quite the same reaction, but it wasn’t the most exciting meal ever.  The kind of uninspiring misc…

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    Comforting lentil soup

    30 September 2018 - By 

    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 in. The only reason I can see for that is to change the texture of the spinach in some minor way, which is silly; or to reduce the amount of liquid going in the pot, which would be valid in many dishes, but here it’s a drop in the ocean and really more bother than it’s worth. Delicious.

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    Almond filled shortbread

    29 September 2018 - By 

    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 of short biscuit with a slight almond chewiness, and I wouldn’t change a thing. Absolutely outstanding. The barest colour on the edges is enough in the oven. It should be pointed out that Lisa did the leg work on these, I merely facilitated. Do again.