Sweet braised carrots
Santa didn’t leave a present under my pillow, or under the Christmas tree (there isn’t one), or even under the thuja in…
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Category: Quick dishes
Chicken with bamboo shoots
As everyone knows, you can’t live on memories alone. And I can’t live on the thought of yesterday’s cheeseburger. A man’s got…
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Classic beef cheeseburger
If you’ve read the bun recipe, you know I had a late-night FIFA tournament yesterday. And as you can imagine, you want…
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Chocolate Surprise Egg Muffins (and Flatkins)
There are two surprises lurking in the title of this recipe. Two thoroughly mysterious surprises, I should add, though the second one’s…
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Turkey strips (lunch for a child)
Yesterday I made stuffed cabbage rolls, which I’ll probably still be eating for another two days. So all I have to do…
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Grapefruit with honey [for Jacek]
This morning a certain someone who’s fatter than me sent me a message to say that today, net weight (that is, stark…
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Sweet and spicy beef burger
I’ve been quite the sinner this week. Not only did I have a hamburger at McDonald’s, I had another one (a tiny…
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Egg-dipped bread fried on a layer of ham
Do you ever get up in the morning – what am I saying, wake up in the morning – and straight away…
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Vegetable couscous
Tonight I made myself the dish that makes Magda Gessler faint and gets top chefs kicked off television. Couscous. No royal Moroccan…
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Pasta ribbons with prawns and spinach
I didn’t make these prawns today. I had the recipe lying around half-finished because somehow I didn’t find the time last week.…
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