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Rigatoni pasta bake

Sometimes, you just want a simple family crowdpleaser that uses store cupboard ingredients and can be scaled to feed more hungry mouths just by tweaking the amount of pasta you use. This is that dish. I’ve used chorizo as the … Continue reading

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Traybake roast chicken on a bed of chorizo and chickpeas

Traybake dishes are brilliant for time-pressed cooks and this one really delivers on flavour too. The chorizo, spices and harissa flavour the onions, peppers and chickpeas with the parsnip dice adding a delicious sweetness. I used whole chicken legs from … Continue reading

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Mussel pilaf with dill

Rick Stein has made some wonderful food and travel programmes, we’ve loved the recent one about Cornwall, the rerun of Secret France and repeats of Long Weekends. We saw this  mussel pilaf being made at a restaurant in the Thessaloniki … Continue reading

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Steak and green vegetable stir fry

If you live in a town with easy access to takeaway deliveries, you may not feel the need to make your own Saturday night Chinese supper. For me, this homemade steak stir fry is just as easy, certainly as tasty … Continue reading

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