From the category archives:

Comfort food

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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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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Stuffed acorn squash with cranberries, wild rice and walnuts

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I’m afraid that Thanksgiving was rather overshadowed in our house by the excitements of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We got pretty hot and bothered by the new Dyson vacuum cleaner (ticks all my boxes: limited edition, “Apple Mac”-white, extraneous scientific rationale, an accessory for every eventuality) and ignored the founding fathers.
But I can’t [...]

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A slapdash cook’s redemption (polpettone, less elegantly known as meatloaf)

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So not all goes to plan in this kitchen, oooh no. Actually that sentence would indicate that I have a plan for supper – most days I’m flipping between at least ten sites open on my increasingly sticky MacBook Air, each with a slightly different version of the recipe I originally had in mind. My cooking [...]

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