Buckwheat is one of those foodstuffs which is sorely unappreciated. It doesn’t appear on too many menus or as a featured ingredient, and most people mistakenly think of it as just another grain. In terms of the botanical, buckwheat is actually a fruit though often referred to as a ‘pseudograin‘ because of it’s grain-like qualities. [...]
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The blood orange curd is still sitting in my fridge, and the butter has been put back in the fridge. I’ll do it tomorrow, I promise. And whilst you ‘tsk tsk’ away, let me show you what’s been occupying my little hands in the stead of making pastry – Home-made ‘chapsal dduk’ with sweet red [...]
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Though I’d never actually tried beef stroganoff before, I’d always had a mental association of it with winter and comfort foods, the creaminess of the sauce teemed with flavoursome beef and mushrooms seemed ideal for cold winter days. So, when I bought this month’s edition of the Delicious magazine, they had a recipe from Jamie [...]
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Have you ever made a dish that wasn’t quite sure what it was? Not quite a pasta sauce, but not quite a stew or a satay either? Well, this dish is pretty much exactly that. It works as a pasta sauce or even on rice, can be spooned up with some roti or naan or [...]
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One last essay *sob*, I’m almost there…Just taking a break at the moment! Now, my family, having mostly grown up with my mother’s cooking, are quite unadventurous when it comes to food. My father will only eat Korean/Chinese/Japanese cuisine, the only other foods he enjoys are pizza, subs (and even then it’s only the teriyaki [...]
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