Matthew

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Date registered: 11 September 2011

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Spanish omelette

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Lunch or supper, Recipes, Vegetarian

12 December 2011

I’m not going to insist you call it a tortilla. This is an international internet, and who knows I might have some American readers who would of course be entirely baffled by a tortilla made of egg, onion and potato. When I first made a spanish omelette I was rather pleased with the result. It …

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J-choke soup 2

Categories:

Lunch or supper, Recipes, Soups, Vegetarian

9 December 2011

I already posted a Jerusalem artichoke soup recipe. It’s an absolute classic, no wonder it crops up in restaurants this time of year as a substantial starter or a warming amuse bouche. But I am back to offer you more! For I have been fiddling around and I have made a thing that I call …

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Review: Brace of Pheasants, Dorset

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Events and Visits, Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

5 December 2011

For those of you who like a nice day out, I would like to propose Dorset. But dismiss images of Bournemouth, Sandbanks, Lulworth Cove and Kimmeridge Bay from your mind; there is a lot of pleasure and beauty to be found inland in the county. Shoot along the A303 past Salisbury and the tourist-riddled building …

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Review: Fishmore Hall, Ludlow

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Fine dining, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

1 December 2011

I think I may have mentioned that we live in Ludlow at the moment. Before our year of travelling around the world we were in London, now we’re in the woolly Welsh marches. Do I need to tell you about Ludlow? I expect everyone likely to be reading a food blog already knows it as …

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Review: The Bell Inn, Yarpole

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Pubs, Rest of UK, Restaurant Reviews

28 November 2011

This weekend was clearly doomed. Doooooomed! Which is another way of saying that we were too late trying to book the restaurant(s) we wanted and so ended up eating somewhere dull on Saturday night. And then we didn’t even manage to rectify things with a good Sunday lunch, making for pretty much a culinary failure …

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