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June 2009

Orange cauliflower, almond and green olive salad with pearl barley

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Salads with farro, or pearl barley*, make a super store-cupboard meal – this type of grain cooks in just 15 minutes with no pre-soaking, giving you enough time to prepare the other ingredients so that supper can be on the table in less than half-an-hour. It’s lovely piping hot as a lighter alternative to risotto, [...]

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Recipes from the internets, tried and tested 1

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Chocolate frozen yoghurt
This recipe from Chocolate & Zucchini was absolutely perfect – I made it with 0% fat greek yoghurt, icing sugar, a tablespoon of rum and Lindt 70% dark chocolate. The entire bowl was demolished in one sitting. mk364ygxp8
Buttermilk squash soup
I got the idea to use buttermilk in a soup from 101 Cookbooks – I [...]

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Meringue ice-cream (gelato alla meringa)

One of the idiosyncrasies of living in Nassau is that shipments of goods arrive on the island only periodically and are delivered to the shops at exactly the same time. Suddenly every store seems to have an unending source of 3-ply napkins, or Activia yoghurt, or dishwasher tablets. If you arrive just at the right moment, [...]

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