afghan red bean curry

Afghan red bean curry with courgette

These are strange times indeed! I’ve never been the kind of person who happily cooks through a repertoire of dozen or so of favourite dishes, I like to travel, I like variety. During the first lockdown, with time on my side, I found an Afghan red bean curry recipe, tweaked…

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Homity pie with red onion gravy

Homity pie with red onion gravy

Homity pie, or Devon pie for Devonians, is a traditional potato and leek open pie that gained popularity with the Land Girls during the rationing of the Second World War. During the vegetarian revolution of the Sixties, it became a firm favourite on the menu of the veggie pioneers, Cranks.…

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home cured olives

HOME CURED OLIVES

Home Cured Olives As summer draws to a close – somewhere towards the end of September (2019) – the olive harvest begins. This year, to save me from tears, I decided to buy a 5kg sack of olive and prepare them myself. My fresh olive guy in Mercado Central said…

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cauliflower rice

Thrice as nice cauliflower rice

Lemon & thyme chicken with cauliflower rice If you’re looking for more than calories from your meal, then blitz some cauliflower and use that to soak up the flavours. Just try to blitz your cauliflower rice 40 minutes before you plate up and you will be rewarded with maxed out…

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Green Velvet Juice

GREEN VELVET JUICE

Silky green goodness! This is my Green Velvet juice💚 kale 🥬 , celery, 🍋 , raspberries, 🥑 , spinach,🍎 & 🍐 The ⭐️ of this juice is the kale 🥬. When its cells are damaged by chewing (or juicing), the enzyme myrosinase mixes with glucoraphanin to produce sulforaphane – part…

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