Food Recipes

Beetroot Tartare Recipe: An Elegant Delight
Beetroot tartare is a vibrant, flavourful, and healthier twist on the classic steak tartare, which traditionally features raw or lightly cooked minced beef seasoned with various ingredients. This vegetarian-friendly dish has gained popularity in recent years due to its unique combination of flavours and textures.
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Wild Garlic Pesto
On the first beautiful Spring day of the year, my youngest Demijohn assistant and I found, sprouting joyfully forth on the river bank, plentiful tender shoots of wild garlic in between the thick riverside grass and occasional crazy waterborne daffodil....
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Gazpacho Soup Recipe
Autumn is looming and I greedily salvage the last of the ripening tomatoes and exuberantly bolting lettuces before the imminent frosts turn them all the dreary mush. Unexpectantly warm late summer days call for a final summer soup but my...
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Flora's Fabulous Crostini
  The arrival of the fresh olive oil harvest of wonderfully springlike bright green Villa Montalbano Extra Virgin Olive Oil coincided with a very hungry teenager during a wet weekend in March 2019. The result was the creation of some...
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Cauliflower Hummus Recipe
In a gentle bid to dodge the ubiquitous trouser shrinking fairy of Lockdown, we tried this low carb Cauliflower Hummus which is variation on our Original Hummus Recipe that uses chickpeas. Vary the Olive Oil quantities as to taste and...
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