Category: Main Meals
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Recipe: Sausage and cannellini stew
On gloomy dark damp days like we have had recently, comfort food smashes down your front door with an axe, gently seals it up again, covers you with a nice blanket beside the fire in front of something like Coronation Street, and hands you a lovely bowl of hot stew and a cup of tea.…
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Recipe: Creamy Macaroni Bake with Salami and Chilli
Irish-born Katie Quinn Davies has done really well with her blog www.whatkatieate.com and award-winning book “What Katie Ate”. She’s also my partner in crime from school. All of her stuff is drool-worthy but I asked her what her most popular easy dinner recipe is. She said this gets the best feedback by a mile. It…
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Recipe: Aoife's Amazing Sticky Chicken
My pal Aoife McLysaght gave me this recipe and frankly, the English language is inadequate to describe just how delicious it is. I’m going to have to learn Russian or something. As well as being very tasty, it’s also extremely simple to make, and very affordable to put together. Hurray! I am struggling to find…
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Recipe: Spicy duck pie with carrot and pea veloute
More pie, please. This one is called “Romany’s Lucky Ducky Pie” and is my favourite recipe is from the Pieminister Cookbook by Tristan Hogg and Jon Simon. If you have sampled their wares, or just like a good pie, I highly recommend it. The recipes are quite tricky, but just clear the decks, open a…
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Recipe: Basic chicken and mushroom pie
It”s getting nippy out, so here”s another comfort dish: pie. Mmmm… pie pants. You”ll need the extra fat for the winter. This dish is homelier than Kirstie Alsopp’s knitted scones. It doesn’t have any cream so won’t put your stomach in a coma. Feel free to substitute broccoli or ham for the mushrooms. You can…
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Recipe: Chorizo and sausage casserole
Hurray! It”s another miserable day. But the good news is that you should eat this casserole and it might make you feel nice and warm. Yes, winter is clearly back, but as the dark days close in over the next few weeks, I”ll bring you not one but several delicious comfort food recipes. The only…
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Recipe: Leftover chicken fricassee
Fricassee was a staple in our house growing up, I still love it, but my sister informs me that just hearing the word turns her stomach. Following a roast dinner, every bit of the carcass would be stripped clean and used in a fricassee the following day. This recipe is based on feeding four people.…
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Recipe: Jambalaya!
I’ve always wanted to go to New Orleans, and, someday, I will! It looks like such a vibrant, fun town but a big part of the appeal for me is the cuisine. I lived in Florida for a short time as a child and our neighbours were from Louisiana. I remember spending long, hot Saturdays…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Vegetable Biryani & Chana Masala
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Radha’s Vegetable Biryani Ingredients Garlic and ginger paste Cassia bark Cardamons Cloves Javantry (flowers) Cumin seeds Kala jeera Bay leaves Black cumin seeds Cashews Green chillies Carrots, green beans, baby corns, etc (the packaged selection of baby veg in supermarkets is a quick option) Sliced onions.…
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Wednesday Wind-down: Anchovy and courgette tagliatelle
Not everyone loves anchovies but I adore the fishy, salty morsels of deliciousness. Love them or hate them, you can’t deny that they pack a punch and I like to add them to lots of different dishes, such as eggs fried in anchovy butter: simply mash the anchovies into some butter and fry the eggs…