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Dreaming of Italy (& an easy pasta sauce)
Nothing cures the holiday blues like researching your next adventure. I’m lucky to have mainland Europe on my doorstep. The concentration of countries and cultures literally blows my mind, and and as...
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Hearty (& cheap) Minestrone Soup
You have to take what you can from the miserable start to UK winter. For me, it’s the simple comfort of soup. It would just be silly to have most soups in summer or spring, so as the temperature drops,...
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Sweet potato, red pepper and feta soup
I believe that feta makes it all better. The most virtuous of cheeses; even nutritionists struggle to slate it. So if you imagine it’s a cold winter’s day (if you’re a UK reader, then it most likely is...
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Nord, Harrogate
I think that owning a restaurant mustn’t feel too dissimilar to being a dedicated parent. You’d have round-the-clock servitude, tiredness, commitment and love, highs and lows – the sense too that your...
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French Onion Soup, with a Goat’s Cheese & Chive toast
If you happen to have a kilo of onions handy, a couple of stock cubes, a slug of brandy in your booze cabinet, and an hour to spare – then this could be your go-to soup recipe for spring. I added...
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Leftovers Chicken Pie
Pastry terrifies me. I once made a Boxing Day turkey pie that was so awful, I was actually reminded this year to be really kind and not make that pie again. My brother, a snooty pastry chef was...
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Butternut Squash & Smoked Bacon Soup
This is a very tasty, filling and cheap soup, which is also very easy to make. It’s perfect for a quick lunch, as it heats through again in no time at all. I picked up a large butternut squash for less...
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When I first started writing, I was heavily into music. I’d stand at good gigs, bad gigs, sweaty gigs and sweary gigs. I wrote about them all. Move forward five years and life has completely changed....
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Bulgogi Grill, Leeds
There’s little more scary than being shown to a table, where your three-year old points excitedly at something that looks like an open grill and yells ‘BBQ! Daddy, we’ll make FIRE!’. Oh, it actually is...
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