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A June English menu continued: Salmon Soup
Cream of salmon soup. That’s what was prescribed to start my grandmother’s day-dreamed menu for a summer dinner party in 1937. The party itself never came to be, but there’s something that makes me...
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Baked Panzanella Nests
There’s a fine line between content and smug. These crisp and squished tomato bread nests may be the tipping point. It started with a late Friday afternoon excursion to Borough markets. The sun was...
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Baked Savoury Apples
My mother’s new house in the green flecked paddocks of Berry has an orchard. At my sister’s place, down a thin rough road baby chickens have just hatched. It’s spring in their fields. On the other...
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Gourgeres
I’ve made a terrible mistake. I missed something. Earlier in the week when I was shaking off some completely indulgent birthday blues by trying to account for the ten best things I ate in the last...
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Festive Stuffed Mushrooms
At many tables in the following week across the world; this will play out. There’s a group coming around for dinner. It’s festive. Which means everyone should play nicely. In my past life, I spent...
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Silver Lined Crabby Snacks – Silver Linings Playbook
It’s that time of year again. And so it begins. The movie: The dish: The reason: Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has not had a good year. What with the time in an institution, restraining order,...
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Eggs en Cocotte with Leek and Tarragon – Amour
The film: The dish: The reason: Despite their advancing years George and Anne Laurent still have a fantasy Parisian apartment, a shared flirtatious twinkle and a love of Schubert. Their final movement...
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Spiced Ceviche Boats with Tiger’s Milk- Life of Pi
Oscarsfeast 2013 Continues The film: The dish: The reason: ‘Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of a fish and saving our lives.’ Not everyone may be as grateful as Pi to eat raw...
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Home Made Honeycomb with Goat’s Curd Toasts
Some days, are shockers. There was a great book that my mum and dad used to read to us when we were little; ‘ Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day‘. “I went to sleep with gum in...
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Orange, Garlic and Chilli Olives
Sometimes you need a makeover. Not a Biggest Loser style job, with bouncing blow dries, mink eyelashes and stripper heels. There’s no need to drastically be cutting or shearing anything. I’m talking...
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Seed and Water Crackers – Mad Max Fury Road
The Dish: The Reason: In the post apocalyptic future of George Miller’s Fury Road, two things are particularly prized; seeds and water. You may not possess the bravery of Furiosa (Charlize Theron),...
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Vodka and Beet Cured Salmon – Bridge of Spies
The Film: The Dish: The Reason: James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is not in Scotland fishing for salmon- despite what he told his wife. Instead he is freezing in East Berlin, attempting to do the best by...
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Roasted Red Pepper and White Bean Dip
Sometimes you hear a phrase that resonates like a bell – it tolls on and on in your mind. The one for this week was the ‘Crudites of Futility’. It comes from the 2016 Dictionary of Modern Parenting....
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(Dairy Free) Sweet Corn Chowder
Maybe you don’t get excited by soup. Maybe the concept of having ready-to-go, flat packed, ziplock bags of soups in the freezer ready to warm and soothe you doesn’t help you sleep soundly at night. Or...
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