Tag: Garlic
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Mushroom and pesto lasagne
Here’s a recipe for a delicious vegetarian lasagne. It’s a little bit complex because it requires preparing several different items before going on to do the final assembly. The main prerequisites for assembling this recipe are: Lasagne sheets (I used ready-made but it’s actually quite easy to make your own pasta) Béchamel sauce (Here’s my…
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Minestrone Soup
This isn’t a recipe for an authentic minestrone soup. I don’t know what an authentic one is but every cookbook I looked at seemed to make it in a completely different way. My version was to look at some pictures and have a “use it or lose it” day with the contents of the vegetable…
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Couscous Salad
A couscous salad is a quick and tasty vegetarian snack or a nice addition to a tapas selection. In addition to the couscous, you can add things like chickpeas, spring onions, tomatoes, capsicum peppers, herbs, dried fruit. Here’s my version. Ingredients (Serves 4 as a tapa dish) 175 g (6oz) couscous 1 tbsp butter (optional)…
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Mussel Soup – Thai Style
Mr Not Delia brought back half a kilo of mussels from our local market. I thought it might be nice to make a classic moules marinières. That’s a very simple dish to make – Ainsley Harriot even has it in his Gourmet Express cookbook. The trouble was that, as well as onions, garlic, white wine…
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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…