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Maple and bacon creme caramel
Bacon is probably the internet’s favourite food (there’s a Bacon Wikipedia Project after all), and after making cereal infused milk for bread , bacon infused mi…
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Learning from Modernist Cuisine, without Modernist Cuisine
Modernist Cuisine is a book I envy. An epic of understanding and recipes about modern cooking that I can only dream of affording. But it turns out you don’t nee…
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Hot Cross French Bacon Cheese Toastie
How’s that for an epic sounding breakfast? Not like it hasn’t been done before , just a quick holiday themed post of an awesome way to consume all those hot cro…
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Parsnip and pears
As well as looking like an anteater’s nose parsnips occupy a strange spicy and sweet place for a vegetable. Roast they are fantastic and, as Wikipedia instructs…
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Random recipe generator
Tonight I think you should cook: Click on the text above, and click any button to generate a new recipe. Most interesting and innovative recipe ideas come for n…
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What is an orange?
The world of citrus fruit is an incestuous one. I had long wondered what the difference is between a mandarin, clementine, satsuma and tangerine. It turns out t…
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Michel Roux Jr’s Pumpkin and swede crumble
Michel Roux Jr’s face is a wonder. It makes Masterchef the Professionals, full of wonderment, shock, horror and pleasure, and he looks like a thoroughly nice gu…
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Brandy butter porridge
Brandy butter and custard are the condiments that save British christmas desserts. Without them it would be all dried fruit and stodge. But brandy butter (and b…
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‘Too good to include’ oriental pork ribs
I first made these ribs for inclusion in a chili recipe , but that didn’t work out so well. It turned out that they were so good that not only did most of the m…
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400 Years of mince pies: the decline of meat
It’s well known that mincemeat used to contain actual meat and now the only remnant of that fact is the presence of suet in some recipe s. In the age of fridges…
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Roast red pepper, basil and cucumber focaccia
I ate a roast red pepper, cucumber and basil sandwich once, it reminded me of watermelon. This bread does not remind me of watermelon, but it still tastes great…