Tag: white wine
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Mont d’Or cheese from France
On the discovery of Mont d’Or cheese This year for the first time, I had a dairy revelation when I took a mouthful of melted Mont d’Or cheese. Mont d’Or has to be one of the most addictively delicious cheeses I’ve ever eaten! You can eat it straight out of its wooden box…
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Risotto With Pumpkin And Bacon
The story of the ravening monster and the pumpkin This week, I’m starting with a very sad story of emerging life, and sudden loss. I had a pumpkin plant sprouting in my vegetable garden. Every day it unfurled its leaves and grew bigger and longer. Unfortunately, also the weeds around it basked in…
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Spaghetti with Herbs, Cannellini Beans and Bacon
An irresistible spaghetti sauce When you don’t have fussy kids hanging around who only like pasta with sauces in which the main constituent is tomato (writing from bitter experience here), this sauce with dried beans, bacon and herbs makes a wonderful change. It suits long pasta, such as spaghetti or linguine perfectly. Even…
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Sardines With Red Onions (Sarde in Saor)
Sarde in Saor; better late than never I’m a little late with this traditional Venetian recipe for Sarde in Saor (Fresh sardines with red onions). One year has already flown past at the speed of light since we were in Venice. I’m not sure where it went. I had all these great plans…
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Risotto With Shrimps, Peas and Saffron
I found some fresh peas in the supermarket the other day and decided that I needed to eat them immediately, if not sooner……but how to have them? My mind worked furiously….hmmm…I suddenly remembered the kids were at the canteen at school this lunchtime, so they wouldn’t be home to complain about eating…
