Recipes – eggs

Spinach, chorizo & baby potato salad with a sous vide poached egg

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  The human brain likes things to work in predictable ways. It’s comforting to know that the shoe we left by the front door when we went to  bed will remain there.  (Of course, when the dog decides to bring it to our bedside in the  middle of the night, our brains tend not to [...]

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Baked truffled eggs inspired by “White Truffles in Winter”

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I set foot in France for the first time when I was 14, stepping off a UTA flight and into the warm air of a Nice evening. My father had finally decided that at 11 years old, my brother would be old enough to appreciate foreign shores and booked tickets for the family to accompany [...]

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Kedgeree – comfort in a bowl

October 5, 2011

  I am one of those annoying people that hardly ever gets sick.  Like my father (who never spent a night in hospital in his life until the fall that broke his hip and ultimately led to his demise), the worst that happens to me is the occasional 24-hour tummy bug, or maybe the sniffles. All [...]

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Asparagus, anchovy, lemon and caper quiche – and a book giveaway

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  UPDATE ON 9 SEPT:  The winner of the book giveaway is @enigmeg!  Thanks to all who entered. Some people are way better than others at simply going with the flow. These are the people who refuse to lie awake at night worrying what the global financial crisis is doing to their pension funds and simply [...]

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Broccoli, cherry tomato & Brie tart

August 1, 2011

Psssst!  want a sneak peek at the Wikio Top Gastronomy Blog rankings for August 2011?  Click here!     Superfoods.  Isn't it funny how they are always so bloody… exotic (read: unobtainable, expensive).  I mean, who do you know who grows goji berries in their back yard?  I believe many people in London grow their [...]

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Passion fruit pavlova to celebrate CookSister’s 7th birthday

May 23, 2011

So… what can you do in seven years?  Depending on who and where you are, you can: build one million Audi A3 cars win the Tour de France 7 times (if you are Lance Armstrong) fight a war have bad luck (if you break a mirror) develop an itch Or alternatively you can write 1,000 blog posts, [...]

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Feta, Peppadew and thyme quiche for a blogger photo afternoon

November 10, 2010

  As anybody who cooks for a living, or who blogs for an obsession, will know, going to eat at other people's houses can be a social minefield.  First there is the "oh I can't have YOU over for dinner – you won't possibly enjoy the simple food that I can cook – too much [...]

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