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Get out of jail salted chocolate tart
Not every dish Chef D’oeuf and I make finds its way onto the blog. That’s mostly because I’m quite a lazy writer. But it’s also because sometimes our new creations aren’t necessarily worthy of a blog post. I’m particularly thinking of the time we make Punjabi chickpea curry (because I saw someone make it on…
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Homemade Italian – Fresh pasta and bruschetta
There is a certain level of smugness you get from telling people you made your own fresh pasta. A level of smugness I would argue is largely unparalleled, except for maybe when you go for a run at 6:30am while everyone is tucked up in bed, or when you clean the flat in a prompt…
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Cocktail hour – Mojitos and Martinis
I can instantly know the state of my current mental wellbeing based on my knee-jerk reaction to the announcement of a lockdown. See below. Boris announces lockdown 1 Me: Look confused, Google: “what’s a lockdown” and do a shit ton of yoga. Boris announces lockdown 2 Me: Go straight to the pub for the last evening of…
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Indian fakeaway – Paneer masala & onion bhajis
One of the best things about eating mostly vegetarian is that it’s completely acceptable, in fact encouraged, to eat cheese for dinner. If I grill some halloumi, slather it in chilli jam and eat that for dinner, no one bats an eye. If I cube some paneers, fry them and pop them in some kind…
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Our tried and tested mushroom stroganoff
Chef D’oeuf and I like to be a little adventurous in our cooking, seeking to supplement the monotony of lockdown life with the variety of cooking dishes from far flung regions across the world. We’ve been to India with our paneer masalas, Malaysia with our rich noodle laksas and Italy with our homemade nonna pastas…
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Aubergine & Cheese – A veggie match made in heaven
The human population seems to have a complicated history with the aubergine. Vegetarians seem to love them Carnivores are confused by them Gen z’s like to send emojis of them as part of their mating rituals. For the most part of my life, I didn’t really spend much time thinking about aubergines. I would go…
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The Genesis
Along with the rest of the human population, I have been finding lockdown 3.0 (in the UK at least) the most difficult of all the lockdowns. Lockdown 1 was full of novel experiences such as trying to understand what the hell was currently going on in the world and spending every waking moment checking whether…
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