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Any food blogger worth their salt seems to be playing around with ndjua at the moment, so when I came across the glistening meaty log at Broadway market last week, I couldn’t resist jumping on the band wagon myself. And what a super jump it was. The fiery Calabrian meat is often described as a [...]

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I learned this recipe on a cooking course six years ago, and it’s been my go-to dish ever since. In fact, the first cooking job I did, I was called up at 10 o’clock in the morning and told that I’d be cooking supper in Gloucestershire that evening, so I legged it to the butcher, [...]

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Tomorrow is the start of National Curry Week . Sure, the national event might’nt have as much clout as Christmas or New Year (not yet anyway…) but it is a chance to have a go at breaking the poppadom tower challenge (currently 5ft 1”) or the samosa speed challenge (how many can you wrap in [...]

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I’m not the biggest fan of cheesecake, so I won’t be waxing lyrical about this recipe. As cheesecakes go though, it’s a real good’un. The addition of mint and balsamic stop it from being one-dimensional creaminess, and turn it into something a bit more sophisticated and interesting. It’s a Fiona Cairns (of royal wedding cake-maker [...]

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When a baby bird hatches from an egg, it decides that the first thing it sees is its mother. Well, when my friend Rob came round from general anesthetic, the first thing he saw was a pineapple. Really. His mum had put it on his bedside table. It would be wrong to imply that this [...]

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Usually I make a bit of effort with the photographs of the food I eat…but on this occasion I failed. I blame it on the fact that this sauce is so intensely delicious, it disappeared before I could get the lens cap off my camera, so you’ll just have to make do with this unappetizing [...]

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Ingredients 1 large butternut squash 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp green, unsalted pumpkin seeds 1 tbsp sunflower seeds 1 tbsp black sesame seeds (1 tsp nigella seeds) 10g sliced almonds basil leaves, to serve sea salt, freshly ground black pepper Sauce 1 medium aubergine 150g (I used less, about 100g) Greek yoghurt (I used [...]

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Ever since the recession hit and Jamie Oliver roasted belly of pork for six hours, the cut of meat has seen a huge revival. From the mahogany tables of smart London restaurants to the ikea tables of skanky student flats, it’s been the cut of the moment. If you’ve mastered the art of roasting pork [...]

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It’s been a while since I last did a post (largely due to a chutney disaster which wrote off my two saucepans, but also due to an expedition to the dreicht north, and then my birthday and then an insect infestation). Anyway, today I popped into Waitrose after work and found some discount pork chorizo [...]

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It’s a drizzly day, and everyone’s feeling a little jaded after excessive birthday celebrations lastnight - so what’s more cheering than a big mug of tea and fairy cakes? Many thanks to Clara for providing much needed (and absolutely beautiful) sustenance. Tea and cake in front of X-Factor repeat…living the dream! For a fairy cake [...]

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