Category: Lamb
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Lamb stew with aubergines and mint
Long before any of the current hipster chefs started promoting the delights of Middle Eastern food, there was Claudia Roden. She was the Cairo-born writer who, many years ago, introduced me and countless others to making wonderfully authentic Turkish, Persian, Lebanese and Moroccan dishes at home. I’ve pimped this one up a little as I…
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Lamb Zagora (with sausages or lamb neck fillet)
My local butcher, David Hubbard in Bury St Edmunds, makes his own delicious sausages in a number of different varieties. I buy his classic pork sausages for breakfast or homely bangers and mash, but his spicy lamb sausages are perfect for braising in the oven with a rich tomato sauce with Moorish spices and yoghurt…
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Memorable moussaka
In my younger days, I spent a lot of time in Greece: Poros, Zante, Athens, Halkidiki, Thessaloniki, Kavala, Thassos, Giannitsa……lovely places. In 1978, I spent an idyllic summer teaching English to a group of sweet Greek children on the beach just outside of Kavala. Their appreciative and hospitable parents often invited me to dinner where…
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