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Big cheese
National cheese week (24th September - 2nd October) kicks of next week – and who doesn’t love the stuff? Strong, mild, smooth, creamy, blue, washed rind – there’s a cheese to suit...
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Gizzi Erskine's pork chops with sage and stilton
Ingredients (Serves 4)
1 tbs olive oil
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 pork loin chops
8 fresh sage leaves
1 ripe pear, cored, halved and sliced into 12
150g...
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Lawrence Keogh's Laverstoke Park Buffalo mozzarella with glazed figs and mint
Ingredients (Serves 4)
12 balls of baby mozzarella or 4 large cut into slices
4 large figs cut into three
12 large mint leaves
50 / 60 mls of Extra virgin olive oil
Crunchy salt...
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Baked gammon with cheese and potato cake
Ingredients (Serves 4)
700g/1½lb piece Irish gammon
1 medium savoy cabbage, trimmed and cut into wedges
Flat-leaf parsley sprigs, to garnish
For the potato cake
Butter,...
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Breakfast topper
Ingredients (Serves 6)
250g/9oz mixed-grain bread mix
2 tbsp tomato purée
2 tomatoes, sliced
3 flat mushrooms, wiped, peeled and sliced
75g/3oz Cheddar cheese, grated
...
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Roasted Vegetable and Cheddar Plait
INGREDIENTS
25g/1oz Trex, plus extra for greasing
350g/12oz butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cut into small chunks
1 red or yellow pepper, deseeded and chopped
...
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Pickled cherries by Skye Gyngell
Ingredients
1kg/2lb cherries
250g/8oz caster sugar
250ml/8fl oz good quality red-wine vinegar
4 cloves of garlic
6 peppercorns
Method
Rinse, dry and pick over the cherries...
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Roquefort souffle with pear chutney
Ingredients (Makes 6)
For the soufflés
50g/2oz unsalted butter, plus
25g/1oz for greasing
100g/4oz walnuts, finely chopped
50g/2oz plain flour
300ml/½pt milk
...
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French Emmental, smoked lardons and cherry tomato quiche
Ingredients (Serves 4-6)
1 sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry, thawed if frozen
10 cherry tomatoes, halved
2 sprigs fresh thyme, torn into pieces
Olive oil for drizzling
200g/7oz...
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Alpine fun-fare
As soon as someone mentions the Alps to me I think of two of my favourite things – skiing and food. The warming hearty fare you get served in those little quirky French mountain-side restaurants...
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Recipes from the couple in the cave
A cave might seem an unusual spot to set up camp – but that’s exactly what Iain and Gayle did. The couple packed their bags and headed off to sunny Andalucia with their two-year-old son and...
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Ingredient of the week: pears
November is the time for that Autumnal favourite fruit, the pear. They have been cultivated by many peoples, including the Chinese some 3,000 years ago.
Also fans were the Romans, who chose not to eat...
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Ingredient of the week: Beaufort
Nutty like a gruyere, but cleaner and sharper, Beaufort comes from the Savoie region of the Alps, where the altitude of the pastures on which the cattle graze helps give it its distinct flavour. Similar...
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Feta care
Feta always seems to come in a packet immersed in liquid, so knowing how to store any that's left over can be a bit of a mystery. Next time you need to do so, simply cover the remaining cheese with olive...
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Ingredient of the week: Cauliflower
The poor old cauliflower; relegated to the domain of powdered sauces, second-rate cheeses and pub microwaves. It's about time we did the versatile vegetable some justice. A good cauliflower cheese is the...
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Goat's cheese and courgette cannelloni
Ingredients (Serves 4 as a main course)
350g/12oz goat’s cheese, rind removed and crumbled
400ml/14fl oz So Good Fat Free
1/2 tsp paprika
Small bunch fresh basil, chopped, plus...