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Pasta with zucchini, almonds and fresh herbs

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I don’t know about you, but I always have a couple of courgettes at the bottom of the fridge, hiding in plain sight like beached torpedoes. It’s my fault – as one of the few vegetables that arrive in Nassau, I’m bored of them even by the time I get to the checkout desk. But this [...]

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Miami meatballs with horseradish and dill

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The single most important commandment for domestic harmony in my house is this: Thou shalt not mess with the meatball.
Polpette, and to a lesser degree polpettone, are as close as Mr. R&R gets to religion so it is a brave, some might say foolhardy, woman who disrupts the regular provision of these meatballs, traditionally flavoured [...]

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Spelt pasta with vine tomatoes, rocket and ricotta salata

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I tend to get all over-excited at our local Epicure – if you see a strange chick muttering happily to herself in front of the semolina flour and a jar of preserved lemons, or spending fifteen minutes in a near trance examining the goats cheese, it’s probably me. What can I say, gourmet supermarkets do something [...]

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Chicken, orange and almond salad

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Mum and Dad are in New Zealand at the moment, where Dad is on a jolly invitational lectureship, wowing the Kiwis, no doubt, in all matters mathematical philosophy and logic. Mum seems to be settling in too, in a whirl of coffee mornings, farmers markets and local Sauvignon. I think she’ll take to retirement quite [...]

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One-pot barley soup for sustenance without stress

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Cooking has been pretty routine of late as we’re waiting for the builders to finish with our new apartment. They’re at that stage which I’m optimistically calling “looks-much-worse-than-it-could-possibly-be”, where there are no floors, doors or lights, five different companies working and about as many languages all being spoken at once. I’m a bit scared to [...]

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Three deliciously controversial gelato flavours: toasted sesame and butterscotch; brown bread; beetroot stracciatella ice-creams

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Mr R&R would like it known upfront that he’s morally opposed to this post. It deeply offends his Italian sensibilities, history, culture, in fact everything that he stands for, and is an affront to the metric tonnes of ice-cream he’s consumed so far, and and insult to the hard-working families producing authentic gelati the length [...]

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Homemade gnocchi with broccoli, and two new gadgets!

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The 8th January? Er, I’m not quite sure how that happened – it’s not as if I’ve spent the first days of the new decade with amnesia induced by wild-partying, hard-drinking or pavement-sleeping. No, my New Years Eve was spent at home, watching the NFL Network (Top 10 Greatest Receiving Tackle Fumblers Coached By Aliens, or [...]

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Viennese striesel

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Viennese striesel a plaited, glazed fruited buttery brioche-style bread suggested by Katie of Thyme for Cooking for the Bread Baking Babes group (I’m just baking along for the ride as it looked gorgeous!). As I’m gathering my thoughts, equipment and baking mojo for the challenge of panettone, this seemed like a good intermediate step and [...]

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Date and oat slice: a kiteboarder-approved, homemade energy bar

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It has proved a lovely, lovely thing to cook some of my childhood favourites for Mr. R&R, and I’ve also (with not a little trepidation) cooked some of his remembered dishes from growing up (see my italian meatloaf, or polpettone). I suppose it’s a way of cementing our two histories together, of saying that yes, [...]

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Taralli – brutish bagel biscuits from Puglia

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As you can see from the picture, they’re not exactly delicate, pretty morsels. My homemade version of these pugliese biscuits are dumpy and lumpy, browned from baking. Indeed, when I cooked them yesterday evening, they seemed to lurk menacingly in the oven, as if saying “Just wait ’til I get crispy, sunshine…”. But I have [...]

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