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Italian

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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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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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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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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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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Pasta with zucchini and bacon

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This won’t be on the table quite in the time that it takes to cook the pasta, but with the right equipment it’s a furgeddaboudit sauce that’s quick to assemble in the pan and rewards a bit of slow cooking.
The vital bit of kit needed here is a mandoline, one of those blades which [...]

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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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