Category: Recipes
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Chicken & rice soup
Here’s a quick and easy recipe for chicken and rice soup. Of course you can always adapt it using leftover turkey or whatever you happen to have in the house. Ingredients (Serves 2 hungry people as a meal in a bowl and 4 as a starter) 1 medium onion, chopped a little vegetable oil for…
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Quick and Easy Lentil Soup
A quick and easy basic lentil soup recipe with variations on the theme, including cream of lentil and bacon soup.
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Christmas Food and Drink Quiz
Here’s a quick Christmas food quiz. Only five questions but quite hard, we think. Have fun, and Merry Christmas! In the 17th century, who made the eating of mince pies illegal in Britain? King Charles I King Charles II Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton What are oplatki? Potato pancakes spiced with cinnamon traditionally served on Christmas…
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Thai Green Curry with Pork
Having made the Thai green curry paste in my earlier posting, the next step is to make Thai green curry. Most recipes I’ve seen give versions for Thai green curry with chicken, but I used pork because we prefer it. The method is the same anyway so you can use pork or chicken as you…
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Thai Green Curry Paste
There are as many different recipes for Thai green curry paste as there are people who make it. There are no hard and fast rules – just a few basic principles and common ingredients. The picture on the right shows the basic ingredients which I used. (The list of ingredients is below along with the…