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Chilli con carne with Shiitake mushrooms

Parma ham, rocket, and red onion pizza

It is a good while since I last turned my hand to making a pizza – this weekend I had the opportunity to use up some ingredients I had lurking in the back of my refrigerator and couldn’t think of a more fitting end to them. My last pizza recipe was a Smoked Salmon, Artichoke…

Last week I returned from a fantastic reunion in Slovakia – a place I really see as my second home. I taught English to adults in a town called Roznava 18 years ago (I was one of the youngest in the class at the time), and was exposed to many great traditions – my favourite…

Some time ago, I regularly used to buy ready prepared spatchcock Poussin from Gressingham, the remarkable duck people (in their own words). Well, what is remarkable about poussin is that they are, em, not a duck – but a butcher’s term for young chicken. Poussin are typically a breed that is naturally slow-growing, meaning that…

Asparagus? – check. Smoked Salmon? – check. You are nearly there for a really simple and delicious starter which takes minutes to prepare. Think of the classic asparagus wrapped in Parma Ham, and substitute the ham with smoked salmon. I wish for the life of me I could remember where I first tried this –…

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