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Vegetarian Thanksgiving – Roasted vegetables with cranberry wild rice
I make this Thanksgiving themed rice dish as often as I think Jon will put up with it, throughout Autumn and Winter. I think it might have been the first dish that I ever cooked for his parents, when they … Continue reading
Make ahead pureed vegetables
But my family always has a pureed [insert obscure vegetable] and there isn’t one on this menu! Any dinner that involves tradition and family is bound to run up against roadblocks of the ‘but we always have this’ variety. Best … Continue reading
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Tagged butternut squash, carrot, Christmas, potato, pumpkin, puree, recipe, sweet potato, Thanksgiving, turnip, vegetarian, what not to do, yam
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The Monday Treat – Pumpkin Spice Cookies
My first experience of Thanksgiving was 5 years ago, when I came to New York for four months. Until then I’d never known the pleasure of a pumpkin pie, never eaten a cornbread muffin, never imagined a green bean casserole, … Continue reading
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Tagged cookie, pecan, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, Thanksgiving, vegetarian
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This dinner will get you laid – a conundrum concerning eggplant parmigiana
“You know that old saying, chocolate’s better than sex – but only if you’re doing the sex wrong?†said friend Annie as we chatted on Skype earlier this week.
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Tagged eggplant, food, mozzarella, parmesan, parmigiana, pasta, recipe, tomato, vegetarian
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The Monday Treat – Carrot Cake
My justification, if any were needed, is that I’m using up the vegetable box, which, by reason of us getting the family-sized one delivered by mistake, seems to be taking up half of the kitchen. This cake used up a … Continue reading
This Dinner Will Get You Laid – Apple Crumble
Today is the 11th anniversary of my husband and I getting together. It happened on Bonfire Night, after walking to the Radcliffe Arms pub for dinner with our friends and watching the fireworks being set off in back gardens all … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, bonfire, cinnamon, crumble, dessert, food, guy fawkes, recipe, vegetarian
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The Monday treat – spicy pumpkin soup and a new, not-so-spicy-pumpkin hair do
So I was going for Mad Men red hair, but as I sat in front of the mirror in the leather and essential oil themed salon sipping my cup of vanilla chai, I wasn’t absolutely convinced. “It’s going to totally … Continue reading
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Tagged mad men, pumpkin, recipe, soup, Thanksgiving, vegetarian
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This dinner will get you laid – The ghosts of boyfriends past flee at the sight of autumn risotto with butternut squash and Madeira soaked golden sultanas
Browsing for Halloween costumes in Ricky’s, Adam and I discussed what we would be this year. I was thinking some kind of generic mourner, since I have black lace gloves and a hat with a veil already. Adam was considering … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, boyfriend, butternut squash, ghost, halloween, recipe, risotto, rosemary, vegetarian, Venice
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The Monday Treat – cinnamon pecan vanilla cheesecake with a hot toffee apple sauce
It was my birthday this weekend, and I celebrated with duck and pancakes with a side order of good friends down in Chinatown followed by champagne and cheesecake at home. Now don’t get me wrong, I love cake cake, and … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, cheesecake, cream, dessert, graham crackers, Katz vs Carnegie, pecans, recipe, toffee, vegetarian
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This dinner will get you laid – breakfast to take you back to bed (Eggs en cocotte)
It was the end of the Summer of Love for Lizzy and J, and they emerged blinking into the golden autumn light to find that everything had changed. The plants in her window boxes were brittle skeletons, his car, evidently … Continue reading
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Tagged brunch, cream, eggs, eggs en cocotte, J, Lizzy, parmesan, recipe, truffle, vegetarian
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