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Arancini Stacks with Caprese Salad Oooh! Very fancy. But its just deep fried rice with tomato and cheese.

Arancini Stacks with Caprese Salad

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Lamb Shanks Braised in Red Wine with Honey Roast Parsnip and Parmesan Puree As I sit here in a smug ‘I-never-buy-prepackaged-minced-meat’ glow of hubristic self-satisfaction I remind myself of the numerous times I’ve gleefully chowed down on a Big Mac. Or that time I notic…

Lamb Shanks Braised in Red Wine with Honey Roast Parsnip and Parmesan Puree

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Homemade Chicken Doner Kebab In my quest (did I mention I was on a quest? I didn’t? Well I am) to recreate the kind of food you will desire, maybe even drool after, following some Friday night shenanigans, I happen-chanc…

Chicken Doner Kebab

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Coconut Spinach and Lemony Chickpeas This was an interesting creation I happened upon on an American blog called ‘the kitchn’. Edgy title. Edgy? Well, see how they miss out the ‘e’ from ‘kitchen’. T…

Coconut Spinach and Lemony Chickpeas

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Gnocchi stuffed with butternut squash (shouldn’t be this painful) The Mrs tore out this recipe from The Sunday Times Magazine and left it hanging around where I would obviously find it. My previous attempt at gnocchi was ‘challenging’, but I seemed to…

Gnocchi stuffed with butternut squash

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Cheesy Fondue Bake – the Perfect Antidote to ‘Fuggy Friday’. Oh happy days. The wind it doth blow and the rain it doth piss. Forsooth methinks I have a) had enough of crappy weather and b) swallowed an olde English dictionary. I had the pleasure and the priv…

Cheesy Fondue Bake

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Pate aux pommes de terre Sounds fancy? Well it isn’t! It’s Potato Pie by any other name. You could call it Potato en Croute. French is a very useful language. Something that sounds ‘run-of-the-mill’ or ‘m…

Pate aux pommes de terre

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Mary Berry’s Apricot Frangipane Tart (or could it be a Quiche?) But first a Random Rant. What the hell has happened to the BBC news website? It’s my go-to primary source of news (If, on the other hand, I want non-news I wind myself up by reading about the lates…

Mary Berry’s Apricot Frangipane Tart

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Chocolate Orange Meltdown Cake Whilst I wait 1 1/2 hours for my pork ribs to simmer I thought I’d share with you my latest BB. That’s ‘Baking Balls-up’. It was looking good, and in fact, if I had been in …

Chocolate Orange Meltdown Cake

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Pork Wellington Just spent a day Christmas shopping. Whilst lying in bed reading the news on the (crappy) Samsung tablet (why didn’t I get an i-Pad) it suddenly dawned on me that if I didn’t get off my…

Pork Wellington

Shouldnt have cooked the pork for so long before wrapping it in the pastry, but was okay as I recall.

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How to Make an Angry Birds Cake I love Angry Birds. ‘What’s Angry Birds’? I hear you ask. No I do hear you, I hear the voices. In my head. No I don’t really. For the uninitiated, Angry Birds is just about the most popular App on …

How to Make an Angry Birds Cake

Actually quite easy and i am not good at cake, or baking generally.

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Goulash – Brain Food for PowerPoint Monkeys For those who work in ‘Big Corporations’ you may well know that it’s ‘Strategy Season’. You know when Elmer Fudd goes mad with a double-barrel shotgun during Rabbit-Hu…

Goulash

Reading this post I realise now why I shouldnt have eaten this stuff then.

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Fish and Chips Redux In the UK we eat 748 million burgers every year. That equates to one a month for every man, woman and child. Fast food is a serious business, as we all know. But of all the different types (Chinese…

Fish and Chips

This one had homemade tartare sauce

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Fillet Steak in Madeira Sauce with Risotto – the ‘eat-what-you-like-it-makes-no-difference’ diet! So now that I am in my 43rd year thoughts of mortality loom. Eat less. Move more. That’s the secret to a longer life. But I might be wasting my time. To quote Michael Fitzpatrick (I’m not convinced…

Fillet Steak in Madeira Sauce with Risotto

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Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Chicken with Fondant Potatoes Over the past few months I’ve built up a vast bank of food posts. Hundreds of photos. The problem is, I can’t really remember the recipes for many of them. And I mean this is a serious …

Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Chicken with Fondant Potatoes

Fondant potatoes are perfect for that #cookingwithwine experience.

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Chocolate Marshmallow Teacakes

These are a scream to make - a traditional British treat.

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Bakewell Tart Watching the Great British Bake Off recently it struck me that the creations being created are becoming so complex that the contestants must be practicing. I mean these ‘ordinary’ folk don’t even l…

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Bakewell Tart

Giant Jaffa Cake! Jaffa Cakes. Those little morsels of joy are brimming with benefits: orangey spongy chocolaty low fat (yes only 1g of fat per disc) dunkable moreish They even cause controversy.  Several years ago …

Giant Jaffa Cake!

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Quick and Easy – Mexican Chipotle Chicken Stew with Rice and Beans I have been following with interest these past few month Diane’s Kitchen Table, where the host of that blog has been undergoing a major kitchen refit. The results are spectacular to say the least. …

Mexican Chipotle Chicken Stew with Rice and Beans

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How the Destruction of Pompeii Inspired Me To Write About Making A Steak and Kidney Pudding Whilst sitting staring at the Boob Tube (as my father used to call it; well he might still call it that but seeing how he now has a 3D 50 inch Samsung LED job I suspect he doesn’t) I found my…

Steak and Kidney Pudding

This one collapsed a bit but you don't make British food for the aesthetics

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Coq au Vin with Croissant Cobbler I just remembered that while I was stuck on that plane last week coming back from being an international businessman (shame I don’t get international businessman pay BTW) there was a salesman…

Coq au Vin with Croissant Cobbler

This is one of my favourites.

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Pulled Pork The easiest thing you will make this year. And, in this blogger’s opinion, the tastiest. Sometimes the simple stuff is the best.

Pulled Pork

2 onions, sliced
3 bay leaves
1 tbsp mustard powder
1 tbsp smoked paprika
1 tsp black pepper
Pinch salt flakes
3lb pork shoulder, rind removed, rolled and tied
5oz tomato ketchup
4 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
3 tbsp dark brown sugar

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Marbled Toffee Bars So from the ridiculous to the sublime. After last week’s glorious cock up we decided to try something out that would give both culinary and visual pleasure. I’ve made millionaire’…

Marbled Toffee Bars

The best bit about this recipe is it uses three types of chocolate. And i did an American version of the recipe.

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Homemade Chinese Take-Away

This one includes

🐂 Stir-fried Beef with Oyster Sauce
🍜 Chow Mein
🍤 Spicy Sichuan-style Prawns
🍗 Cashew Chicken
🥢 Fried Tofu in Black Bean Sauce

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Mississippi Mud Pie I definitely do like a good pie. Pie and chips. Pie and ale. Pizza pie. Pie-eyed (that’s me). All things pie (except the maths version, which you were taught at school, which is useless infor…

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Beef Hotpot First a joke. A woman walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre, so the barman gave her one. Next an observation. It’s the General Election in the UK next week. The General Election is …

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This recipe maybe 10 years old but it provides important #comfortfood properties in these somewhat uncertain times...

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Frozen Raspberry and White Chocolate Cheesecake – Perfect with Strictly Come Dancing I’m watching week two of Strictly Come Dancing. (‘Dancing with the Stars’ if you live on the other side of the pond). The wife watches religiously (she was an Am-Dram queen, took …

Frozen Raspberry and White Chocolate #Cheesecake

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Beef Cheek Chilli with Essential Sides First some things I noticed this week: Twitter is irritating. For every person that starts following you, 2 stop following you. Actually I think that every time I write a rude word, or controversia…

Beef Cheek #Chilli with Essential Sides
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10 years ago but it stands up to the test of time.

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Steak au poivre Or Pepper Steak. Simple enough concept, but check the internet and the gastronomes get pretty heated. It doesn’t have cream. Yes it does! It only has red wine. Brandy, you fool! Pepper should…

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Get the recipe here (my old food blog)

Smoked Haddock Souffle #Pancakes

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