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Jacket-baked Potatoes

Yep, eat them on the couch if you want to, just make them because these are stunningly good.

Winter Salad

How to make a finger-licking green salad? It’s all in the tossing …

Garlic is cheaper than the doctor

Is garlic a cure-all? Is it strongest when used crushed or chopped? Does it keep the vampires away?

French Omelette with Bacon, Crème Fraîche & Chives

An omelette is a 2-minute meal, ready when you are. This one’s amazing – salty, tangy, savoury – and really hits the spot.

Cheesy Scrambled Eggs Rolled in Soft Tortillas

Soft pillows of creamy eggs atop tortillas with a handful of coriander & feta, dotted with chilli sauce, is a great way to say ‘Hello there morning!’

Pig on the beach – true!

Thatched roof, pig on a beach, Durdle Door, whatever next!
Ilaria goes wandering.

Cardoons the new artichoke

Cardoons may be new to you, but they’re an ancient vegetable. Looking like a tatty bundle of celery, the taste, I tell you, is pure artichoke.

Hokkien Noodle Soup with Wong Bok & Tofu

Chilli, coriander, ginger and soy sauce give oodles of flavour to this easy and sustaining noodle soup.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts Salad

If only our mothers and grandmothers had thought to roast these cute little buds we would have loved them at first bite!

Dianne’s 5 Grain Bread

My kind of bread – mix it, bake it, eat it. No kneading, rising or faffing around with these babies.

Bring me bread and oil

Basically, a big feast of carby-goodness will always put a smile on my face.

Broccoli Salad with Pumpkin & Peppers

Get your chops around this – colourful, crunchy, bursting with flavour, and good for you!

Broccoli Stir-fry with Chilli, Ginger & Oyster Sauce

This is a quickie, and scrumptious, and good for midweek.

What’s a bunnuce burger?

I know, I know, strange word, and I didn’t know what it was until about a year ago when someone made it up …

Hey Bud!

Brussels sprouts look cuter than cabbage, and they can taste a whole lot better, too, if you arm yourself with a few must-do’s …

Erbazzone

Erbazzone is sweet, earthy, savoury and salty, with contrasting textures of moist filling held between flakes of buttery, salty pastry. Heaven.

Bring them home for an Italian feast this weekend

Italians don’t need much of an excuse to get together and share good food – they do it most days – but 2^nd June is significant in the modern history of Italy as it commemorates when, in 1946, after the second world war and the downfall of fascism, Italians went to the polls to vote to either retain the monarchy or to abolish it and form a republic.