Recipes

Strawberry carpaccio with smoked balsamic reduction and toasted pistachios

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When my brother and I were teenagers, we went through a phase (doesn’t everyone?) of wanting to start a band. I could play the piano; he could play the saxophone (well it was the 1980s – saxophones were de reigeur for all self-respecting bands); we could both write lyrics; and his friend Clinton Smith was willing to [...]

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Skrei cod with a miso glaze – and how to buy sustainable cod

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“So you’re a food blogger then?  Ok, so what’s your signature dish?”  It’s a question I dread, and one that I do not have an answer to.  It is part of the (totally erroneous) assumption that food bloggers cook only lark’s tongues lightly sautéed in truffle butter and garnished with pure gold leaf. People read [...]

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Decadent mint chocolate chip brownie recipe

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  “ Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry and you cry alone”, wrote author Stanley Gordon West. I’m not sure I entirely agree with all of this, but it is true that when you smile, it seems to elicit smiles from other people.  In fact, smiling is one of those activities that we all [...]

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Roasted cauliflower soup with garam masala for in between days

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In between days. It’s a phrase that seems designed to enable people to overlay any meaning they wish onto it; a phrase that changes meaning for me depending on what is going on in my life.  I first heard it as the title of a wonderful song by The Cure and like a pebble in [...]

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Cajun blackened cod with creamy avocado dressing – and a NoMU giveaway [closed]

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Don’t you hate it when you finally find the store that sells jeans that actually fit your shape – and it goes out of business.  Or you finally find the perfect  shade of concealer that does not make you look like an outpatient at the jaundice clinic – and the company discontinues that particular shade. [...]

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Gingerbread cookies for Easter

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  There are two types of people in the world – bakers and non-bakers.  Bakers tend to be those with an eye for detail – the kind of people who are not at all fazed by recipes requiring “2.5 egg yolks”;  who are willing to spend as [...]

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Sautéed Brussels sprouts with Nduja and preserved lemon

Thumbnail image for Sautéed Brussels sprouts with Nduja and preserved lemon March 19, 2013

My brother and I have always been suckers for lists.  Lists of the top ten songs of the year; or the top ten fastest cars in the world; or the top ten tallest mountains – if it came in a numbered list we were all over it like a rash. In fact, I think my [...]

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