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Fred Bux
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The recipes I've created over the years.

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Arancini Stacks with Caprese Salad

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Arancini Stacks with Caprese Salad
Oooh! Very fancy. But its just deep fried rice with tomato and cheese.
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April 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Lamb Shanks Braised in Red Wine with Honey Roast Parsnip and Parmesan Puree

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Lamb Shanks Braised in Red Wine with Honey Roast Parsnip and Parmesan Puree
As I sit here in a smug ‘I-never-buy-prepackaged-minced-meat’ glow of hubristic self-satisfaction I remind myself of the numerous times I’ve gleefully chowed down on a Big Mac. Or that time I notic…
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April 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Chicken Doner Kebab

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Homemade Chicken Doner Kebab
In my quest (did I mention I was on a quest? I didn’t? Well I am) to recreate the kind of food you will desire, maybe even drool after, following some Friday night shenanigans, I happen-chanc…
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April 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Coconut Spinach and Lemony Chickpeas

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Coconut Spinach and Lemony Chickpeas
This was an interesting creation I happened upon on an American blog called ‘the kitchn’. Edgy title. Edgy? Well, see how they miss out the ‘e’ from ‘kitchen’. T…
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April 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Gnocchi stuffed with butternut squash

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Gnocchi stuffed with butternut squash (shouldn’t be this painful)
The Mrs tore out this recipe from The Sunday Times Magazine and left it hanging around where I would obviously find it. My previous attempt at gnocchi was ‘challenging’, but I seemed to…
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March 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Cheesy Fondue Bake

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Cheesy Fondue Bake – the Perfect Antidote to ‘Fuggy Friday’.
Oh happy days. The wind it doth blow and the rain it doth piss. Forsooth methinks I have a) had enough of crappy weather and b) swallowed an olde English dictionary. I had the pleasure and the priv…
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March 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Pate aux pommes de terre

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Pate aux pommes de terre
Sounds fancy? Well it isn’t! It’s Potato Pie by any other name. You could call it Potato en Croute. French is a very useful language. Something that sounds ‘run-of-the-mill’ or ‘m…
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March 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Mary Berry’s Apricot Frangipane Tart

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Mary Berry’s Apricot Frangipane Tart (or could it be a Quiche?)
But first a Random Rant. What the hell has happened to the BBC news website? It’s my go-to primary source of news (If, on the other hand, I want non-news I wind myself up by reading about the lates…
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March 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Chocolate Orange Meltdown Cake

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Chocolate Orange Meltdown Cake
Whilst I wait 1 1/2 hours for my pork ribs to simmer I thought I’d share with you my latest BB. That’s ‘Baking Balls-up’. It was looking good, and in fact, if I had been in …
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March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Pork Wellington

Shouldnt have cooked the pork for so long before wrapping it in the pastry, but was okay as I recall.

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Pork Wellington
Just spent a day Christmas shopping. Whilst lying in bed reading the news on the (crappy) Samsung tablet (why didn’t I get an i-Pad) it suddenly dawned on me that if I didn’t get off my…
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March 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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How to Make an Angry Birds Cake

Actually quite easy and i am not good at cake, or baking generally.

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How to Make an Angry Birds Cake
I love Angry Birds. ‘What’s Angry Birds’? I hear you ask. No I do hear you, I hear the voices. In my head. No I don’t really. For the uninitiated, Angry Birds is just about the most popular App on …
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March 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Goulash

Reading this post I realise now why I shouldnt have eaten this stuff then.

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Goulash – Brain Food for PowerPoint Monkeys
For those who work in ‘Big Corporations’ you may well know that it’s ‘Strategy Season’. You know when Elmer Fudd goes mad with a double-barrel shotgun during Rabbit-Hu…
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March 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Fish and Chips

This one had homemade tartare sauce

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Fish and Chips Redux
In the UK we eat 748 million burgers every year. That equates to one a month for every man, woman and child. Fast food is a serious business, as we all know. But of all the different types (Chinese…
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March 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Fillet Steak in Madeira Sauce with Risotto

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Fillet Steak in Madeira Sauce with Risotto – the ‘eat-what-you-like-it-makes-no-difference’ diet!
So now that I am in my 43rd year thoughts of mortality loom. Eat less. Move more. That’s the secret to a longer life. But I might be wasting my time. To quote Michael Fitzpatrick (I’m not convinced…
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March 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Chicken with Fondant Potatoes

Fondant potatoes are perfect for that #cookingwithwine experience.

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Bacon Wrapped Cheese Stuffed Chicken with Fondant Potatoes
Over the past few months I’ve built up a vast bank of food posts. Hundreds of photos. The problem is, I can’t really remember the recipes for many of them. And I mean this is a serious …
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March 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Chocolate Marshmallow Teacakes

These are a scream to make - a traditional British treat.

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March 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Bakewell Tart
Bakewell Tart
Watching the Great British Bake Off recently it struck me that the creations being created are becoming so complex that the contestants must be practicing. I mean these ‘ordinary’ folk don’t even l…
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February 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Giant Jaffa Cake!

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Giant Jaffa Cake!
Jaffa Cakes. Those little morsels of joy are brimming with benefits: orangey spongy chocolaty low fat (yes only 1g of fat per disc) dunkable moreish They even cause controversy.  Several years ago …
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February 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Mexican Chipotle Chicken Stew with Rice and Beans

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Quick and Easy – Mexican Chipotle Chicken Stew with Rice and Beans
I have been following with interest these past few month Diane’s Kitchen Table, where the host of that blog has been undergoing a major kitchen refit. The results are spectacular to say the least. …
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February 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Steak and Kidney Pudding

This one collapsed a bit but you don't make British food for the aesthetics

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How the Destruction of Pompeii Inspired Me To Write About Making A Steak and Kidney Pudding
Whilst sitting staring at the Boob Tube (as my father used to call it; well he might still call it that but seeing how he now has a 3D 50 inch Samsung LED job I suspect he doesn’t) I found my…
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February 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Coq au Vin with Croissant Cobbler

This is one of my favourites.

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Coq au Vin with Croissant Cobbler
I just remembered that while I was stuck on that plane last week coming back from being an international businessman (shame I don’t get international businessman pay BTW) there was a salesman…
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February 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Pulled Pork

2 onions, sliced
3 bay leaves
1 tbsp mustard powder
1 tbsp smoked paprika
1 tsp black pepper
Pinch salt flakes
3lb pork shoulder, rind removed, rolled and tied
5oz tomato ketchup
4 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
3 tbsp dark brown sugar

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Pulled Pork
The easiest thing you will make this year. And, in this blogger’s opinion, the tastiest. Sometimes the simple stuff is the best.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Marbled Toffee Bars

The best bit about this recipe is it uses three types of chocolate. And i did an American version of the recipe.

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Marbled Toffee Bars
So from the ridiculous to the sublime. After last week’s glorious cock up we decided to try something out that would give both culinary and visual pleasure. I’ve made millionaire’…
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February 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Homemade Chinese Take-Away

This one includes

🐂 Stir-fried Beef with Oyster Sauce
🍜 Chow Mein
🍤 Spicy Sichuan-style Prawns
🍗 Cashew Chicken
🥢 Fried Tofu in Black Bean Sauce

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February 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#Mississippi Mud Pie

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Mississippi Mud Pie
I definitely do like a good pie. Pie and chips. Pie and ale. Pizza pie. Pie-eyed (that’s me). All things pie (except the maths version, which you were taught at school, which is useless infor…
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February 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM