Tag: Salt and pepper
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Fava Bean And Spring Onion Frittata
The signs of Spring: flowers, tourists and fresh broad beans “Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is?” as the eminent writer Spike Milligan was said to have recited, and my Mum always used to say when I was a kid. And indeed, Spring has finally come (boy,…
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Pasta al Ragù (Pasta With Meat Sauce)
Every now and then when I’m feeling especially energetic, I make a big batch of ragù and then freeze it in portions so that I have a impressive tasting, good-for-you pasta sauce to pull out of the freezer at the last minute if we have unexpected guests, or if I just don’t know…
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Triglie alla Livornese (Red Mullet with Tomatoes)
A mullet by any other name tastes the same The fish used in this recipe is a pretty little reddish/pinkish fish is called triglia in Italian and rouget in French. Nice names, aren’t they? Well, do you know what someone way back when decided to call it in English? Red Mullet! What an awful name! I…
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Sausages Braised in Tomato
What to do when you have too many sausages On Easter Monday we had hoards of friends descending on our garden for an annual Easter Egg Hunt (with chocolate eggs, of course! None of those namby-pamby decorated boiled eggs that have been sitting in the sun for an hour!) and pot-luck lunch. As…
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Fava Bean Spread With Parmesan Shavings
Places that are hard to leave once you stay there a while Too many years ago, we lived in California in our pre-kid era and didn’t appreciate enough how easy it was to go out, like, whenever we felt like it to where-ever we wanted to go at the drop of a…
