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Tasty Bread Dough


This recipe makes: 3 Pizza bases or 8 Flat breads or 12 pittas or umptine bread sticks or Rolls or Bread Ingredients: 250g Plain White Flour 250g Strong White Flour 1 1/2 level tsp of fine Sea Salt 1 tsp Easy Blend Instant Dried Yeast 1 tbsp Olive Oil Method: Put both flours into a […]

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Tasty Mustard Dressing


This dressing works well with duck or simply on your salad. Ingredients: 1 – 2 tsp grain mustard 1 tbsp honey 1 1/2 – 2 tbsp white wine vinegar 6-8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper How to Prepare: Put all of the ingredients into a bowl and mixin it all […]

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Coconut chicken with lemon rice


Ingredients 3cm piece root ginger , peeled and roughly chopped 2 garlic cloves , roughly chopped 1 green chilli , roughly chopped 2 onions , roughly chopped olive oil 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp turmeric 8 chicken thigh fillets, cut into quarters 400ml tin coconut milk 1 small bunch coriander […]

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Sausage Hotpot – Mix and Match things and its very nice


Sausage Hotpot – Serves 4 Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 1 hour Ready in: 1 hour and 30 minutes Ingredients: 1 1/2 tblsp olive oil 25gm butter 1 large onion (thinly sliced) 1/2 tsp dried oregano (optional) 2 pkts 384g Musks Original Sausages 1kg potatoes (sliced) 300ml stock Grated cheese (topping) Directions: Heat oil […]

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Perfect Cheese Sauce


Some people, especially those of a kitchen-shy disposition, tend to think that sauces are difficult to make. This is not necessarily so. Basic white sauce is surprisingly simple and, in the guise of cheese sauce, it is a versatile companion to a variety of dishes.If you remember the following two simple rules, you can’t go […]

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Persian Restaurant – Leciester Sq.


Simurgh 17 Garrick Street London WC2E 9XE Great food and atmosphere

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Venison Cassorole


This is tried, tested and bloody lovely: Ingredients: 800G Venison 400G Shallots or Onions 500ML Red Wine 500ML Beef Stock (OXO will do) 2 Table Spoons of Red Current Jelly 150G Button Mushrooms 15G Plain Flour 5 sticks of Thyme or Rosemary 2 Bay leaves Sunflower Oil Preperation: Cube Venision  into 3CM cubes Lightly cover […]

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What a bottle of Wine – Mmmmmmm


This stuff is lovely – not too dry and quite fruity

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Pancake Mix – makes 8-10


100g plain flour/self raising flour 1 egg 1 big pinch of salt 250ml milk 1 tbl spoon of melted butter Melt butter Sift flour and salt into bowl Add egg and 1/2 milk to bowl and whisk Add rest of milk and whisk it all in Cook Can be frozen Store in fridge

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