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Pot-roast pheasant with pancetta, apples and a bread gravy
Who can tell me what the following sentence’s claim to fame might be? “The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.” Points if you said that it provides a an example of...
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Easy cheesy Brussels sprout gratin
**STOP PRESS** The Randomizer.org has spoken and chosen the winner of the Bluebasil gourmet brownies giveaway – and the winner is EMMA HOWARD! Congratulations, Emma – we will be in touch soon via...
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Sous vide duck breasts with a charred orange & Cointreau sauce
Christmas traditions – they’re a funny old lot, aren’t they? For a start, how did the idea of a snowy Christmas with frost on the windows and northern hemisphere pine trees become so pervasive that...
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Chocolate chestnut fondant – a decadent Christmas dessert
The other day, a friend and fellow-blogger asked an open question of his readers: do you collect mementos when you travel, and if so, what? If you’d aked me that question 15 years ago, the answer...
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Clementine and cranberry upside-down cake
Regard the humble cranberry. Just like that plain Jane in your university history course who seemed to have nothing of any interest to share with the world, but who was actually a pole dancing rock...
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Homemade cranberry clementine vodka and a Christmas cocktail
When I was a student, we loved to play Pictionary – even more so if we could convert into a drinking game of some sort. Of course, I always insisted on being in a team with my darling future...
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Brandy and Coke glazed gammon for a South African Christmas feast
Long before Buzzfeed or Mashable saw the light of day, I was a fan of lists. As far back as the early 1980s, some of my brother’s and my most treasured possessions were the two volumes of the...
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Roasted Brussels sprouts with chorizo & hazelnuts
Well, there’s no denying that 2020 has been quite a year… It’s a year where we learnt the hard way that drunkenly repeating on new year’s eve how crap the last year was, and how glad we are to see the...
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Festive roast lamb with pomegranate glaze
Have you ever thought about the difference between culture and tradition – or even wondered whether there is even a difference between them? They are definitely intertwined and both inform and...
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Roasted Brussels sprouts with feta, pomegranate and pine nuts [GF, V]
I have a good friend who has introduced me to an excellent tradition: whenever she travels somewhere, rather than buying a T-shirt, mug, ornament or some other dust-gathering tchotchke, she tries to...
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