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chicken with sherry and cream

Two thirds of the post title are wrong. This is my take on a Heston Blumenthal recipe so read on to find out what I’ve changed… I’ve read Heston at Home a bunch of times but I’ve always glossed over this recipe. The picture isn’t very appealing – in fact you can barely see the […]

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sledgehammer chicken

I’ve cooked a few whole birds on the barbecue before, such as southeast spatchcock and slathered with BBQ sauce. But with getting a drum-style barbecue this year I could try grilling a whole one for the first time. This chicken came about from trying Sainsbury’s new chicken roaster. It’s a metal stand which holds the bird in […]

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black forest trifle

When making this, I had to search my blog in case I’d made something like this before. I have a severe weakness for ‘black forest’-flavoured things and I appear to have 4 separate choc-cherry desserts in my collection! This one has been back and forth with In Search of Heston and me, we’ve noticed how […]

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southeast spatchcock chook with booze-braised sweetcorn

For Mrs. Spud’s birthday and the weather hitting decent heights at last, I wanted to come up with a BBQ featuring some special treats. I thought about cooking a whole chicken and grilling some sweetcorn. Thankfully experimenting with the barbecue is really taking off in this country. We’ve always lacked the predictable weather and sustained […]

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