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Edward’s chocolate Coca-Cola birthday cake
View recipe: Edward’s chocolate Coca-Cola birthday cakeThis is quite possibly the most perfect homemade birthday cake for any boy or girl. However, if chocolate and Coca-Cola are amongst your favourite, yet normally restricted food items (like our great-nephew Edward), it becomes even more perfect. This James Martin recipe sounds quite unusual (I have adapted his original method slightly to ensure that…
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Memorable moussaka
View recipe: Memorable moussakaIn 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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Chicken with fresh bay and roasted garlic sauce
View recipe: Chicken with fresh bay and roasted garlic sauceMost people eat chicken at least once a week and it can be tricky to find a recipe that transforms the potentially bland flavour into something sublime. This one really delivers! Don’t worry about the amount of garlic in this recipe. Roasted in the oven beforehand, it becomes buttery soft and very subtle in flavour…









