Recipe: Cucumber & Mint Raita

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Recipe: Cucumber & Mint Raita Raita is a cooling side dish most often served with the more fiery spicy Indian curries or as a dip for poppadoms and takes just a minute to make. To keep the consistency thick, be sure to remove as much excess water from the...

Recipe: Elderflower Cheesecake

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Recipe: Elderflower Cheesecake During Medieval times, something called Sambocade was prepared as a dessert using curd cheese baked in a tart case. This is our version in the form of an elderflower cheesecake. The pastry makes a nice crispy case for the soft, light,...

Recipe: Roasted Asparagus with Chorizo & Poached Egg

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Recipe: Roasted Asparagus with Chorizo & Poached Egg The season is finally upon us for British asparagus, but what to do with it? We wanted something a little different to the standard steamed method and had heard that roasting really locks in the flavour....

Recipe: Chicken, Vegetable & Pesto Traybake

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Recipe: Chicken, Vegetable & Pesto Traybake Let’s face it, nobody likes to do lots of washing up so this chicken traybake with vegetables and pesto solves the problem and it’s delicious too, of course. Chicken thighs are essential to this type of cooking as...

Recipe: Make a Simnel Cake for Easter

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Recipe: Make a Simnel Cake for Easter There are many versions of the story of how the Simnel cake originated, so it is difficult to ascertain which one is actually true, so to save confusion we’ll not go into the details. What is known, is that nowadays it is made for...

Recipe: Luscious Pork Belly

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Recipe: Luscious Pork Belly There’s something irresistible about slow cooked pork. It is meltingly tender and the flavour is rich and moreish. This recipe uses pork belly strips which do appear to have a lot of fat on them, but don’t let that put you off – anyway,...