Ice cream: everyone has their favourite. Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pistachio, lemon… when you get me in front of an ice cream vendor there’s only one choice for me: mint choc chip ice cream. The freshness and the bitter dark chocolate is a sensational combination. Did you know July is national ice cream month? Given how hot it’s been it’s not like […]
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When food ideas strike me, I can’t let them go. Such as my idea to make After-Eight style mints. The experiment was pretty good, but of all things to get wrong, I got the chocolate wrong. I used some of Willie’s 100% cacao and it was just too bitter for the mint. Find a piece where the chocolate was wafer-thin […]
Read moreThere’s no shortage of burger recipes on this blog, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for one more. I was sent a bottle of Frank’s Red Hot sauce in the post. It’s not a condiment I usually use but after a little taste I found it really interesting – very hot of course, but with a very pleasant fruity […]
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I thought I’d tried all the Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals that I wanted to, until the photo-ninja Nga commented about the spring lamb recipe… I couldn’t believe I’d missed it! So I tore off to try it. It’s a relatively simple recipe, with seared & roasted lamb, and a big bowl of pots ‘n’ veg boiled up. But […]
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