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Pasta Carbonara

Pasta Carbonara

When you are reading this you are probably isolated in your home with plenty of pasta. Yes it must be in your larder since there isn’t any left in supermarkets. Or, maybe you found this recipe when all of this coronavirus mess is over and you still have plenty of pasta left from stockpiling. Either way this recipe will give you a chance to use it in a quick and delicious dish. There are hundreds if not thousands recipes for…

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Blackberries frozen yoghurt and coulis

Blackberries frozen yoghurt and coulis

I must be mad. I am offering you two recipes for the price of one! But I cannot help myself when it comes to blackberries. They are probably my favourite berries. I love foraging for them in late August and early September. When ripe they taste absolutely wonderful and are a good source of vitamin C and K. This year was particularly good for blackberries and the harvest was great! I ended with so many of them that I had…

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Sea bass with mango and chilli sauce

Sea bass with mango and chilli sauce

The weather this summer is fantastic. Every weekend feels like you are on holidays. It is just amazing! Simply perfect for outdoor cooking. But even I can eventually get bored with barbeque. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it! To have a break from the constant charcoal smoke I decided last weekend to cook inside. I wanted to stay with the summer theme though. And what is more summery than exotic fruit such as mango. Combine it with chilli and the…

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Apple sauce

Apple sauce

I will continue with the autumnal theme. I just love cooking in this time of year. Amongst many great ingredients that are now in season are cooking apples. Particularly often overlooked Bramleys. Whilst you would never pick this apple variety for eating raw it makes a perfect ingredient for cooking. Natural tartness of this apple works great in the apple sauce served with fattier pork dishes. Home made fresh apple sauce is way nicer than the commercially mass produced sauces….

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Juniper red wine jus

Juniper red wine jus

“The preparation and appearance of sauces and gravies are of the highest consequence” (Mrs Beeton) If you read recipes I published so far you probably guessed that I am a big fan of sauces. Whether the dish is sweet or savoury the sauce is extremely important. It binds the dish together. Individual components of the dish might be great but they don’t come together until you add sauce to the equation. You can compare it to building. You can have…

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