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pinot grigio potatoes

Shock, horror! Another roast potato recipe on this blog. What an anomaly. Of course it isn’t, I’ve got roast potato recipes here, here and here for starters. But this was another twist, derived from cooking Heston’s perfect chicken (again). The chicken there is treated with a boozy butter baste. I’d gone a bit crazy and […]

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gold nuggets: october 2012 round up

My October was spent trying to crank out 15 Minute Meals, but not everyone else was in a rush. Scouring the depths of my bottomless RSS reader, here’s a selection of my favourite foodie posts from October. All images are taken from the respective blogs, and copyright is theirs. Just look at this strawberry mille […]

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mushroom parfait with orange jelly and walnut bread

Sometimes, things don’t turn out the way you expect. You feel cross with your self inside and yet you’ve presented something perfectly acceptable, it’s just you know it should be better. I was commiserating just this point with a friend at a Jubilee party this weekend. She’d made cupcakes, of the supremely fine-crumbed and meltingly-soft […]

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diamond jubilee chicken

Another year, another royal celebration, another round of special dishes by Heston Blumenthal. Following last year’s trifle to commemorate the royal wedding, this year Heston produced a panoply of picnicky treats. I’ve had a stab at one here: Diamond Jubilee Chicken. I’m really not a fan of coronation chicken, the dish originally commissioned for the […]

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