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Posted on Jan 26, 2007 in Cook, Lovely Lunches, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Simple Tomato Sauce

This is the most useful recipe to have in your repertoire. I use it – sometimes with the addition of broccoli, chorizo, bacon or chilli – with gnocchi, pasta, cannelloni and polenta, as a topping for pizza and even when baking pancakes. If you can track down some decent Italian plum tomatoes,...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2006 in Do, Storecupboard Specials | 3 comments

EBBP#5 – The Taste of Summer

EBBP#5 – The Taste of Summer
One of the (very) many events organised by fellow food bloggers is a series of regular parcel exchanges. Last year in New Zealand I thoroughly enjoyed participating in Blog By Mail 2 and now I’ve gotten involved in Euro Blogging By Post #5, this round of which is being run by Jeanne over at the...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2006 in Do, Storecupboard Specials, Travel | 4 comments

Moroccan (foodie) souvenirs

Moroccan (foodie) souvenirs
Honey – Moroccan honey is the most un-honey-tasting honey that I’ve ever eaten. We often had it for breakfast, the rich caramel sweetness drizzled across English muffin-styled Moroccan pancakes called beghrir or the flaky, multi-layered rghaïf. Accompanied with a tall glass of freshly squeezed...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2006 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 4 comments

Confiture de lait

Confiture de lait
If there’s one thing nicer than Murphy’s Seacláid (chocolate) Ice Cream, eaten straight from the tub beside the fire (yep, it’s still cold in Ireland!), then it’s got to be that self same cold, intensely flavoured ice cream topped with great generous spoonfuls of creamy sweet/salty...
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Posted on Feb 26, 2006 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 4 comments

Comfort food: Dal

Comfort food: Dal
Dal – also known as Dhal – is one of my favourite comforting winter meals. On a cold evening when you’ve got wet through on the walk home and don’t feel like leaving the house again, it is enormously reassuring to find that there’s a packet of red split lentils and some spices...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2006 in Food for Friends, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Emergency soup for a bleak winter’s night: Storecupboard Lentil and Tomato Soup

Seeing as both Darina and Rachel have recently been assuring the readers of their cookery books that it’s become very fashionable to entertain at home instead of going out – that, and the fact that the Boyfriend and I finally have somewhere to call home – we had some friends round last week...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2006 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 2 comments

Common Cold Remedies Meme: Fran’s Best Lentil Soup

Ilva at Lucullian delights – an Italian experience tagged me for the Common Cold Remedies Meme. This was started by Raquel over at Raquel’s Box of Chocolate when she asked what people do when they have the sniffles – and to pass on any remedies. This is a particularly good time of the year...
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Posted on Dec 23, 2005 in Food for Friends, Storecupboard Specials | 4 comments

Cranberries at Christmas: Cranberry, Orange and Port Relish

Cranberries at Christmas: Cranberry, Orange and Port Relish
The best thing about being back in Ireland is Christmas in winter. Somehow – although my readers from the other side of the world may not agree! – cold long nights and short wet days make me feel Christmasy. It’s that whole feeling of getting indoors and battening down the hatches for the...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2005 in Cook, Storecupboard Specials | 5 comments

Chickpea and Chorizo Stew

Coming across some raw chorizo sausage recently at Verkerks‘ butchers I decided to try out one of the recipes from the Mediterranean Café’s Tapas Evening. I also wanted to try out the Spanish smoked paprika that Chef Nik had used with such success that night but, naturally, the recipe sheet had...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2005 in Food for Friends, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Mexican moments: Mexican Beans

Mexican moments: Mexican Beans
I’ve been having more than a few Mexican moments lately with my chocolate and chilli experiments and I’ve also cooked several Mexican meals. The first was for a pot-luck dinner for eight in our house when some of the Boyfriend’s college friends and their wives were about. This was only...
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Posted on Oct 30, 2005 in Living in New Zealand, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Peter Gordon’s Tomato and Chilli Jam

Peter Gordon’s Tomato and Chilli Jam
Before I came to New Zealand I had only vaguely heard of Kiwi chef Peter Gordon. From articles that popped up every so often in the English newspapers that I read, I knew that he cooked at The Sugar Club (still, I think, a truly brilliant name for a restaurant) and that he was designated king of what became...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2005 in Lovely Lunches, Storecupboard Specials | 11 comments

Cooking quinoa

Cooking quinoa
Quinoa is something that I’ve been meaning to cook for quite a while. About ten years, in fact, ever since I read Nigel Slater‘s Real Fast Food. He has several recipes for this protein-packed ancient grain and, as with all his writings, I was seduced by the delicious descriptions. Not seduced...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2005 in Do, Storecupboard Specials | 5 comments

Potatoes – the whole sorry story…

Potatoes – the whole sorry story…
Anyone who knows me is well aware of the fact that I do not like potatoes. I am not a fan of the mashed potato, nor do I like boiled potatoes, potato cakes, potato croquettes, potato salad, baked potatoes or potato gratin. I avoid any dish which involves the word aloo in Indian restaurants and I don’t...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2005 in Do, Living in New Zealand, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Eat Local Challenge: Final words…for now

Eat Local Challenge: Final words…for now
Even though I came late to the month-long challenge – think last week! – I’ve really enjoyed having to focus on Eating Locally. New Zealand, and especially Canterbury, is a particularly good place to be doing this. Earlier this year I interviewed Tina Duncan, who has a catering business,...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2005 in Do, Living in New Zealand, Storecupboard Specials | 0 comments

Eat Local Challenge: Your daily bread

Eat Local Challenge: Your daily bread
Bread is very important to me. I love it fresh, I love it stale and ready for toasting, l love it with cheese, I love it in particular – fresh or toasted – with good salty butter. I love the way it mops up your plate after you’ve had a particularly tasty tomato pasta dish. I love the...
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