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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 Jun 26, 2005 in Lovely Lunches, Storecupboard Specials | 4 comments

Red Onion Marmalade

Red Onion Marmalade
Being flat stony broke these days, I like to try and bring my lunch to work with me rather than be dependent on cafés. Sometimes the lunch is leftovers from dinner the night – rice or pasta with some kind of sauce – but other days I am forced to rely on sandwiches. Having eaten plain ham...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2005 in Eating Out, Living in New Zealand, Lovely Lunches | 0 comments

An afternoon interlude: Riccarton House Café

An afternoon interlude: Riccarton House Café
It’s not very often we go out for Sunday lunch but the fact that I had a voucher for the Riccarton House Café in Christchurch made our minds up for us last weekend. The café only does lunch but that’s well worth the hour-long walk from our house. It has the perfect setting. Riccarton House is...
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Posted on May 30, 2005 in Bake, Lovely Lunches | 4 comments

Brown Soda Bread: the Irish connection

Brown Soda Bread: the Irish connection
One of the birthday presents that came from a thoughtful friend in Ireland was a very welcome book of Irish Cooking by Clare Connery. While this was a book that I might not have ever noticed in bookshops in Ireland, having several Irish cookery books already, here in New Zealand it is a pure treasure. With...
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Posted on May 20, 2005 in Lovely Lunches | 2 comments

Vegetable soup – take two

Vegetable soup – take two
A weekend by the sea in autumn is the perfect time for soups. What better lunch, especially eaten by the fire as you gaze out the window at the rolling grey sea. Although it’s not especially cold, you feel like wrapping up warmly and doing the winter thing – and all the things you need for soup...
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Posted on Apr 24, 2005 in Cook, Lovely Lunches | 1 comment

Pre-emptive hangover soup: Carrot and Lentil Soup

It was a friend’s 30th birthday on Saturday and we were gathering at 5pm, in fancy dress, for a few drinks before heading over to a rugby match in Christchurch – Canterbury Crusaders vs South Africa’s Cats. So there was a night of merriment before us – and probably a Sunday of its...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2005 in Cook, Lovely Lunches | 4 comments

Food for a cold day and sick boyfriend: Chicken Noodle Soup

Some days start off grey and just don’t improve. Take today, for instance. Overcast morning, freezing cold at the bus stop waiting on the bus to work, get lost looking for this week’s office (I’m temping at the moment), spent the day nearly submerged beneath files – and what do I find...
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