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Category: Recipes

BROAD BEANS, LARDONS AND SUN DRIED TOMATOES

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • September 5, 2021
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This salad salty, crispy lardons, sweet broad beans and rich tomatoes…a perfect melody of flavours and textures. INGREDIENTS 200g frozen broad beans 100g lardons 1 tablespoon Oliver oil 1 red … Continue Reading →

ROAST DUCK LEGS WITH PLUM SAUCE

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • September 5, 2021
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An elegant and tasty plum sauce sets off roasted duck legs to perfection. makes for a stylish main course for a special occasion. INGREDIENTS serves 4 For the plums 1.2 … Continue Reading →

ROAST TOMATO TARTE TATIN

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • August 26, 2021
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  When the tomatoes go soft and intensely flavoured there are few tomato tarts better than upside-down tomato tarte tatin. As Lindsay Bareham observed “Roasting the tomatoes first intensifies the … Continue Reading →

ROAST TOMATO SAUCE

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • August 25, 2021
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If you have (almost) more tomatoes than you know what to do with, this sauce is not only delicious and enormously versatile, and it freezes brilliantly for up to six … Continue Reading →

BOK CHOI STIR FRY WITH A RED PEPPER PASTE

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • August 16, 2021
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Asian inspired stir fried Bok Choi recipe with with a light and flavorful red pepper sauce. It is quick and easy, healthy and ready in 20 minutes.  Perfect with Pork. … Continue Reading →

FRENCH BEANS WITH A CREAMY VINAIGRETTE WITH EGGS

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • August 9, 2021
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This easy dish is always good to make. It’s an excellent salad for summer, and a good way to use up all those pickings. INGREDIENTS  Serve 4 500 g French … Continue Reading →

RHONE MARINER’S STEW WITH ANCHOIADE

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • August 8, 2021
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This traditional French recipe combines melt-in-the-mouth beef with roast tomatoes and anchoïade to create an intensely flavourful stew. ….and plenty left over for a sandwich next day. INGREDIENTS 1kg onions, … Continue Reading →

CHICKEN CACCIATORE

  • By Sheila Wilton
  • August 8, 2021
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  The best chicken cacciatore in a rich and rustic sauce with chicken falling off the bone is simple italian comfort food at its best! Authentic Chicken Cacciatore is an … Continue Reading →

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