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  • My sort of traditional Pizza Margherita

    thedizzydieter

    Cooking is individual to the cook – we all follow recipes from other people but as we learn we start to develop our own methods and techniques for doing things and our own ideas about flavour combinations and what tastes good and that’s when you become a fully fledged chef. To take some random ingredients and whip up something extraordinary from them is, for me at least, one of the true joys of cooking, not to mention something that I was doing a lot recently – to empty out freezers and cupboards in preparation for moving house! Pizza is one…

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  • Pancetta and Avocado Salad with croutons

    thedizzydieter

    As the summer approaches every year, I seem to spend most of my time daydreaming about salad. Not about chowing down on a lettuce but of ways to make it tastier and more interesting because I need to eat more of it. It’s a tough job but there are ways…

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  • Herb and cheese topped focaccia

    thedizzydieter

    I was always (and still slightly am) terrified of making bread. I never really listened to my mum when she was trying to teach me about cooking and baking – mostly because I was a petulant teenager who knew everything and wanted to spend my time out with my friends,…

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