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Pickled Pear Recipe
Ingredients 20 conference pears 1lt white wine vinegar/ delicious cider vinegar ½lt water 500g caster sugar 3 star anise 1 large stick cinnamon, broken into three 1tbsp allspice berries Zest of a lemon cut into curls with a potato peeler. ½tsp cloves 1dsp juniper berries 3 sprigs rosemary (optional – my rosemary died this summer so mine is rosemary free!) You’ll Also Need: 2 x 1½lt Kilner jars or 5/6…
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Celeriac, Salmon and Potato Dauphinoise
This rich creamy dauphinoise is largely inspired by a Swedish dish called Laxpudding. Please let me know if you have heard of this before-not many people have! A simple dauphinoise made with potatoes, cream, butter, salt and pepper is one of my absolutely favourite dinner party side dishes as it goes perfectly with so much, particularly lamb but has a certain amount of aplomb when it comes to the table…
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Shakshuka
Serves 2-4 This is a dish that for years I kept meaning to try as a great friend of mine always talked about how delicious it was and she was so right! So when I cooked it for the first time I was absolutely not disappointed. Originally from North Africa, Shakshuka literally means “all mixed up” and is a combination of deliciously simple yet bold flavours and spices. Traditionally eaten…
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Rhubarb and Ginger Cake
When we first moved to Fruit Hill from London we inherited the most amazing amount of rhubarb plants. In fact there were two huge vegetable beds, and one bed with berries galore. It was quite something after living in London, and over the years since then we have condensed the beds into a manageable size. We had so much the first few years that the children stood in the driveway…
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Lucy Hoyle Cooks…Wild Garlic and Spinach Soup
When I told my daughter (aged 7…) what recipe I was doing this week for Rebecca, she looked at me with such disdain I thought I had some of the soup attractively dripping from my mouth-but no. Apparently soup is reeeaaalllyy boring Mummy, why aren’t I doing a more exciting recipe like normal!? Well, I started, this has seasonal ingredients in…and she was gone. I had bored her with my…
