Tag: Recipe
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Apricot and almond crumble
I have a pretty big collection of cookery books, most of which have really beautiful pictures of finished dishes in them, often in settings that evoke the feelings of a season or a location that inspired them. We eat with our eyes so they say, so it’s understandable that we are drawn to cook the…
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Pea and ham risotto
The secret to a great risotto (apart from the 20 minutes patience it takes to stir it) is the stock and using good quality rice such as Arborio or Carnaroli. If you don’t have any of those ingredients just make something else for supper! If you do, you’ll be rewarded with a delicious treat. Make…
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It’s sloe vodka time!
Traditionalists maintain that you should wait to pick sloe berries until after the first frosts, however, it’s October and there’s no sign of frost on the horizon so now seems like as good a time as any! There are masses of ripe sloe (prunellier) berries in our nearby blackthorn hedges (and if we didn’t pick…
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