Category: Sides
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Fennel Bulb And Orange Salad
On being introduced to fennel bulbs This isn’t so much a recipe as such, as it is an introduction to a vegetable I never knew you could eat before I set foot in Italy. In New Zealand, where I grew up, fennel was known as a herb that you sprinkled over…
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Candied Yams (Sweet Potatoes and Marshmallows)
Going where I never thought I would go A recipe on how to make candied yams is not something that I ever thought I would post, to tell you the truth. Marshmallows on a savoury dish seemed like one of those foods of American lore, like deep-fried Twinkies, that were better off left…
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Post-Op Vegetable Puree
Soothing food for post-operation patients I know the photo above doesn’t look much like the whale I promised to write about in my last post, but it’s been a pretty intense week this week. At the beginning of the week my youngest son had braces put on his teeth, and my eldest son not only…
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Peas With Bacon And Pinenuts
Fresh peas are one of my favourite vegetables. The best way to eat them, as far as I’m concerned, is straight off the vine while you’re standing by the plant. If you get them small enough, raw peas taste sweet and nutty and don’t even need to be cooked. As they get a…
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Asparagus Salad With Mustard And Balsamic Vinegar
Easy asparagus to delight everyone and make you look good in the process Spears of asparagus are shooting up everywhere now that the weather is warmer. I often make it with grated Parmesan cheese on it, but I was getting a little bored with that, so I decided to try something new.…
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Bread, Celery and Apple Stuffing
The perfect stuffing for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving has crept up on us with the stealth of a lion stalking its prey. Where does the time rush off to in such a hurry? Sometimes I with I had a brake-pedal so I could slow everything down just a little. If Thanksgiving is launching itself…
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Crispy Roast Potatoes
One of the best roast potato recipes I have ever eaten Potatoes are one of my favourite foods to eat. I’ll eat them any which way, except raw….though I would probably even eat them raw if they weren’t bad for you! And one of my favourite ways to eat my favourite tuber is…
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Potato Salad With Green Beans and Bruschetta Bread
What to do when your vegetables die and the mosquitoes arrive in force The heat has suddenly arrived with a vengeance. I went from dodging thunderstorms and procrastinating about sowing seeds to grow some vegetables to realizing that suddenly, just in one day, it is now way too hot for them to survive.…
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Salad With Artichokes and Parmesan Cheese
Waiting for artichokes This time of the year is always very exciting. As it starts to get warmer, you see glimpses of the bounty to come when peas, asparagus and even the odd punnet of juicy, exorbitantly expensive strawberries start to appear in the shops. One of my favourite things to eat in…
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Rainbow Chard With Pine Nuts And Raisins
In my village a new, furtive fruit and vegetable seller recently appeared. A few times during the week, you need to wander through the cobbled streets and, if you’re lucky, you’ll find her and her battered old car full of fruits and vegetables from her garden. She sells them straight out of…
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Borlotti Bean And Tuna Salad
An easy meal in just five minutes! I hope you’re starting to be ready to cope with food again now, since a couple of weeks have passed since the excesses of the holidays. Bean and tuna salad is a great one as it’s incredibly quick to make and tastes delicious (of course,…
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Stewed Red Cabbage and Apples
Enjoying the food in Munich, Germany Recently, we were lucky to be able to visit the beautiful city of Munich, Germany and took in a visit to Legoland. The Munich part was for the adults in the family and the Legoland part was to convince the younger members of the family to wander…
