Tag: tomatoes
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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 episode and it made us long for sunnier climes and the days when holidays were…
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Chennai chicken curry
The star ingredient in this curry is the fenugreek in my Chennai spice mix; the method of cooking onions and then adding ginger, garlic and chilli paste with some thick yoghurt before the other ingredients is the one I picked up as a student from my Asian flatmate’s Mum. Once you master that classic technique,…
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Glyda’s Greek-style green beans
I first ate this delicious green bean and tomato stew when I was working in Greece on my gap year. This is a homely dish that Greek families cook all the time so when my friend Gylda gifted me a generous bag of fresh runners from her garden, I knew exactly what I was going…
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