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Recipes, cooking lessons, tips, tricks, food blog, and more.
Recipes, cooking lessons, tips, tricks, food blog, and more.
Take a cheap cut of beef, braise it with onions and mushroom - End up with a melt-in-the-mouth, tasty dish. Perfect winter dish.
Cornish pasty - It's good, it's quick, it's healthy, it's filling, and it's really affordable. And you can make them ahead of time.
The rich flavours of this dish are perfect for a cool evening. It is inspired by the classic Ossobuco, but has a character all its own.
Stir fry is one of those dishes that can be ready really quickly. Have all the ingredients ready to go, and the actual preparation is fast.
This beef stock recipe is easy and affordable to make, and gives a better taste than purchased stocks.
Stews are hearty dishes that can be made in advance and are quite affordable to make. This one is unusual, using black olives and flavours of orange.
I tried a new (to me) meat - Angus crossed with Jersey. It made for a wonderful, tasty, juicy steak. Not for the vegetarians among us!
Home-made stock is simple to make, as well as cheaper and better than purchasing at the supermarket.
Joy at finding veal at the supermarket, disappointment that it wasn't of the quality I expected.
Someone asked about recipes calling for flouring meat before browning it for stews - I explain how to avoid burning the flour, and point out flour is not always necessary.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? Charles De Gaulle