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Beef short ribs braised in black bean sauce with green stir-fry
View recipe: Beef short ribs braised in black bean sauce with green stir-fryI prefer to make all my meals from scratch but I do understand that takeaway food has its place. On the rare occasions that I ever order a Chinese takeaway, I always have beef in black bean sauce with green peppers. If I make it myself, I generally use strips of steak and stir-fry everything…
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Burrata with caponata
View recipe: Burrata with caponataThere is a wonderful Italian restaurant in London called Il Portico, a favourite with the Pigeon Cottage gang, and we had this fab starter there last time we went – aubergine caponata & stracciatella di burrata. Caponata is a very famous Sicilian dish and I’ve been wanting to make it since we went there on…
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Classic Greek ‘village’ salad
View recipe: Classic Greek ‘village’ saladEvery restaurant, family kitchen and taverna has their version of a classic Greek ‘village’ salad. The ingredients are simple but if you use the best and freshest produce you can, this is a pretty hard to beat summer salad. It goes with everything – Greek pita bread and hummus, grilled fish, ‘souvlaki’ kebab skewers. You…









