There’s food that makes the generation above me turn misty-eyed: liver and onions, jam roly-poly, pickled eggs… Bread and dripping is another. That is, a slice of bread smeared with a slick of grease rendered from the Sunday roast and rescued cold from the pan. Creamy white fat speckled with pepper on soft bread… I don’t share that same nostalgia, […]
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I love lamb. A quick count says I have 37 recipes on here alone tagged with lamb. When a very good friend was coming over around their birthday I asked them what they’d like for dinner: they said lamb. Another friend of mine won a burger competition with a cracking lamb patty. When Easter rolls around, as a nation we […]
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Somewhat inspired by recent challenges on Great British Bake Off, I thought about making some tear and share bread. When left to my own devices things often take a Mediterranean direction. I’d not tried tear and share (or pull-apart to my American friends) before so started with a basic bread recipe and moved out from there. I was off round […]
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I do love a full English, but obviously isn’t something you can indulge in too often, so here’s another way to get your bacon-mushroom-toast-egg fix. You just need some little ramekins, darioles or if you’re not middle-class, teacups. I call it a fry-up-in-a-cup! The mushrooms and bacon require a tiny bit of pre-cooking to get them started, but after that you stuff […]
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