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spiced cherries and the rest of Germany

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We were in Germany last week. It was my first time there.We were in the Middle Rhine region being looked after by the Romantic Rhine tourist people – and very nice they were too. We had dinner at Le Chopin restaurant in the Bellvue Hotel, Boppard. What a lovely meal.I had liver served with the […]

sole survivor

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The fish can’t counter While communications interruptus was playing havoc with my karma I decided to take the boys to visit our brand new, enormous and very shiny Tesco. See how inventive I get when it comes to entertaining my children – Supernanny etc eat your organised hearts out.Tesco Port Glasgow is indeed huge and […]

Barbecued monkfish

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They were chunky and juicy and wrapped in basil and palma ham. Absolutely delicious and far prettier than the picture. We were at our friend’s new house and managed to squeeze a sneaky BBQ in before the deluge. Actually it probably wouldn’t have mattered as the exceptionally snazzy new barbecue had a lid. Don’t suppose […]

caesar salad

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Hurray for me – the Yorkshireman ate salad last night. I did have to put some sausage in it, but it was cold and some of it was green so it was technically salad. Although the notion that because it’s salad it must be healthy doesn’t really apply to Caesar salad – parmesan, olive oil, […]

smoked makerel pate

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Makerel pate to go with garlic bread out of a packetI am still enamoured of the new food processor K gave me for my 40th birthday which accounts for why most things currently are milled, mashed, grated or juiced. Anyhow, the garlic bread – horrid low fat stuff – was approaching d-day and I really […]