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  • Roasted Pepper and Rocket Quiche

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    We’ve made a few recipes with roasted peppers, and almost always have a jar of the shop-bought ones in the fridge. They go really well in pasta, risottos and many other things, and are a really handy store cupboard ingredient to have in your kitchen. This quiche isn’t made with the shop-bought peppers – although they are a great ingredient, there are times when only the real thing will do. The original idea was a creamy roasted pepper sauce to stir through pasta with some diced chorizo – the contrast of the sweetness of the peppers versus the salty/spicy taste…

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  • Chai and Blueberry Panna Cotta Slice

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    Chai is one of my new favourite things. I think most people of my generation and older are familiar with the term “cup of chai”, referring to a cup of tea but I have only recently discovered the particular blend of chai spices, and more specifically, chai latte. Oh my…

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  • My sort of traditional Pizza Margherita

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    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.…

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  • Double baked potato skins

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    Potato skins are one of those things I’ve never really thought of as a thing to make at home. I’m of the age where you saw them on every single restaurant menu for what seemed like years. But then they seemed to disappear and, correct me if I’m wrong, I…

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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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