From the category archives:

Sauces

Mixed Sweet (Bell) Pepper Sauce

July 30, 2010

This is my oldest daughter’s favourite. I make a big batch and then have it in the fridge for a few days and after school she will toast some of my semi-sourdough, warm some of the pepper sauce to top the bread with. If I happen to have some around in the fridge I have […]

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Beetroot (Beets) In Sugar Crust Experiment

May 21, 2010

If I come across a new way of cooking something that doesn’t require buying a whole set of new equipment then I’ll bookmark, it was the case with these beets. There’s a blog that I love visiting because you never know what you’re going to find, it’s like Christmas day, it’s always a surprise what […]

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Gabriela’s Pesto – Two Ingredients

April 26, 2010

In my house I live two separate lives with regards to food. One part of my life is the food I like to cook, experiment, share and maybe post about and then there’s the second side of my food life where I need to feed as best as I can a child with multiple-food allergies. […]

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Passion Fruit Curd

April 4, 2010

My parents are lucky enough to be able to grow passion fruit on their acre of land and when the fruit is ready for picking my mother goes through the process of scooping out the insides and freezing it for a later date. I wish they didn’t live a plane journey away. I adore passion […]

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Zabaglione, Zabaione or Sabayon with Pears

March 3, 2010

If you like your puddings to stick to the side of your ribs then make this to go with your sticky pudding as an alternative to cream, just make it less sweet. If you want the perfect dessert that will deliver a sweet kick at the end of a romantic meal but not get […]

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From Ordinary Mushrooms to Sublime Mushrooms

January 19, 2010

This is a delicious dish, an intense earthy sweet mushroom dish which can be used any which way you so wish, lots of flavour for little money. You can add stock to it and turn it into soup or make pasta sauce with it, you can evaporate the juice further and put them on bruschetta/crostini, […]

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Cranberry Sauce and Snow

December 19, 2009

Let It Snow I do not remember the last time it snowed before Christmas, proper snow that settles. Our garden backs on to a field with a slope and as soon as there is snow on the ground you’ll see the young and not so young out on the hill from daylight pulling their sledges. […]

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Slow Tomato Sauce

June 30, 2009

This is a really simple tomato recipe but like all simple things it requires a little bit of attention. The most important ingredient is obviously the tomatoes, but more importantly is the ripeness of the tomatoes. When I visit Portugal one of the single most enjoyable flavours I look forward to is the flavour of […]

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