Tag: wine and dine
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Wine and Dine: Polpette with Tomato and Basil
Easter marked the start of better weather and longer evenings. The gloom of winter is fading and blossom is appearing with cherry, apple and hawthorn all showing their best and lifting our spirits. Evenings can still be a little chilly and we still enjoy cosy home cooking but with fresher, lighter flavours. The downside is that April is part of ...
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Wine and Dine: Wild Garlic Chicken Orzo
There are signs of spring everywhere..crocuses and daffodils are adding colour to the countryside, birds are welcoming the dawn, and the sun won’t set before 6.00pm until October 29th! Best of all, for the keen cook, there are fragrant carpets of wild garlic to be found in shady woodland glades and on riverbanks. Delicious, plentiful, and free.....
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Wine and Dine: Chicken with Tomato, Lemon and Garlic
Christmas festivities are a distant memory - it is still cold, wet and dark. Easter seems a long way off and amidst the gloom of yet another foggy day, but then, as if by magic, a little hope springs when we see a splash of colour from a snowdrop or an early crocus. We should take these splashes of joy as a hint to liven up a relentless diet of ...
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Wine and Dine: Poule au Pot
We have an image of classic French cuisine being complicated, fussy and full of big flavours. These dishes certainly exist but don’t represent real French country cooking. Take cassoulet for example; very rich and hearty, but it’s true magic lies in the subtlety of beans and bay leaf, a hint of tomato and whiff of garlic, with nothing ...
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Wine and Dine: Chicken Liver Parfait
It’s almost Christmas and time to get prepared for your festive feast! This is an impressive starter that the whole family will enjoy. It can be prepared up the week before and kept refrigerated. Ingredients 450g room temperature fresh chicken livers, trimmed of all sinew and any bile sacs 75 g banana shallots, finely sliced 2 ...