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Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
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Moonblush Tomatoes are
#RecipeOfTheDay
, Iām delighted to say. This is the way to bring intense flavour to tasteless toms and, whatās more, while you sleep!
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Moonblush Tomatoes
You may have come across Sunblush Tomatoes in delis; these are my homespun version. I halve cherry tomatoes, sprinkle them with herbs, a little salt and a pinch of sugar and drizzle over oil, put in a...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/moonblush-tomatoes
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This weekās
#CookbookCorner
stars 'Cucina DellāEmilia-Romagna: Recipes from the Gastronomic Heartland of Italy and its Capital Bologna' by the wonderful Ursula Ferrigno! Read more about it and get her recipe for Piadina ā the local flatbread ā here:
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Iāve written about dealing with disappointment in the kitchen for my column in this weekās
@ftweekend.com
column. Thereās a paywall, but hereās a gift link for the first 300 people who click on it!
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Nigella Lawson: How to rescue sad summer crops
When strawberry season yields disappointment, here are a handful of strategies to perk up dull produce
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Moonblush Tomatoes are
#RecipeOfTheDay
, Iām delighted to say. This is the way to bring intense flavour to tasteless toms and, whatās more, while you sleep!
www.nigella.com/recipes/moon...
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Moonblush Tomatoes
You may have come across Sunblush Tomatoes in delis; these are my homespun version. I halve cherry tomatoes, sprinkle them with herbs, a little salt and a pinch of sugar and drizzle over oil, put in a...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/moonblush-tomatoes
about 22 hours ago
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Midweek Treat: these gorgeous little Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are
#RecipeOfTheDay
!
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Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I can't seem to stop making these, and as I make them, so they get eaten. Luckily, they are extraordinarily easy to throw together. And, incidentally, they are gluten- and dairy-free. Do check the ing...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/flourless-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies
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Midweek Treat: these gorgeous little Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are
#RecipeOfTheDay
!
www.nigella.com/recipes/flou...
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Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I can't seem to stop making these, and as I make them, so they get eaten. Luckily, they are extraordinarily easy to throw together. And, incidentally, they are gluten- and dairy-free. Do check the ing...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/flourless-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies
2 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
My quick and easy take on a traditional Italian chicken dish, Pollo alla Cacciatora is
#RecipeOfTheDay
! The addition of cannellini beans may be unorthodox, so Iām glad to see that one of the kind comments underneath the recipe is from an Italian!
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Pollo Alla Cacciatora
This is an old favourite ā chicken cooked "the hunter's way" or, rather, "the huntress's way" ā which grants a certain amount of culinary licence, although Italians might not agree. My version is trad...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/pollo-alla-cacciatora
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This weekās Guest Recipe from the
#CookbookCorner
archive is the Salty Sweet Lime Crisp Sandwiches from the lovely 'Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice' by Natalie Paull!
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My quick and easy take on a traditional Italian chicken dish, Pollo alla Cacciatora is
#RecipeOfTheDay
! The addition of cannellini beans may be unorthodox, so Iām glad to see that one of the kind comments underneath the recipe is from an Italian!
www.nigella.com/recipes/poll...
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Pollo Alla Cacciatora
This is an old favourite ā chicken cooked "the hunter's way" or, rather, "the huntress's way" ā which grants a certain amount of culinary licence, although Italians might not agree. My version is trad...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/pollo-alla-cacciatora
3 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
What I call Quick Gherkins are
#RecipeOfTheDay
! Itās a bit of a misnomer, really, but thatās just what this perky baby cucumber salad with its pickle-ish dressing is known as in my house. And it makes a sprightly accompaniment to many weekend leftovers.
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Quick Gherkins
Now this is where my pickling obsession started. For all that, it isnāt really a pickle, more of a sprightly salad, but I eat these spikily soused cucumbers just as I do gherkins. If you can get Leban...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/quick-gherkins
4 days ago
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What I call Quick Gherkins are
#RecipeOfTheDay
! Itās a bit of a misnomer, really, but thatās just what this perky baby cucumber salad with its pickle-ish dressing is known as in my house. And it makes a sprightly accompaniment to many weekend leftovers.
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Quick Gherkins
Now this is where my pickling obsession started. For all that, it isnāt really a pickle, more of a sprightly salad, but I eat these spikily soused cucumbers just as I do gherkins. If you can get Leban...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/quick-gherkins
4 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
#RecipeOfTheDay
is Chocolate Cake with Coffee Buttercream! Well, why not? Iām celebrating the slight lessening of the brutal heat.
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Chocolate Cake with Coffee Buttercream
This is a reassuringly easy cake to make, and very popular in my house, requiring nothing more taxing than beating wet ingredients into dry: in other words, just a bowl and wooden spoon number. And w...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-cake-with-coffee-buttercream
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is Chocolate Cake with Coffee Buttercream! Well, why not? Iām celebrating the slight lessening of the brutal heat.
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Chocolate Cake with Coffee Buttercream
This is a reassuringly easy cake to make, and very popular in my house, requiring nothing more taxing than beating wet ingredients into dry: in other words, just a bowl and wooden spoon number. And w...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-cake-with-coffee-buttercream
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Nigella Lawson
Breakfast or dessert? Itās your choice entirely: Chopped Fruit Salad is
#RecipeOfTheDay
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Chopped Fruit Salad
The pomegranate juice mentioned here is out of a bottle, but if you're using out-of-season strawberries, add a squeeze of real juice to steep the berries and replace the mixed seeds with a gloriously ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chopped-fruit-salad
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Breakfast or dessert? Itās your choice entirely: Chopped Fruit Salad is
#RecipeOfTheDay
!
www.nigella.com/recipes/chop...
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Chopped Fruit Salad
The pomegranate juice mentioned here is out of a bottle, but if you're using out-of-season strawberries, add a squeeze of real juice to steep the berries and replace the mixed seeds with a gloriously ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chopped-fruit-salad
6 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
#RecipeOfTheDay
is Coconut Shrimp with Turmeric Yogurt! It might not feel like the ideal weather for a spot of (even very small-scale) deep frying but, as Fiorello La Guardia once said, if the ends donāt justify the means, I donāt know what does.
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Coconut Shrimp with Turmeric Yogurt
Coconut shrimp is an American delicacy, and so I prefer to retain native terminology. I don't know why this should be, but I find it makes them sound much more delectable than prawns; shrimp is such a...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/coconut-shrimp-with-turmeric-yogurt
7 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is Coconut Shrimp with Turmeric Yogurt! It might not feel like the ideal weather for a spot of (even very small-scale) deep frying but, as Fiorello La Guardia once said, if the ends donāt justify the means, I donāt know what does.
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Coconut Shrimp with Turmeric Yogurt
Coconut shrimp is an American delicacy, and so I prefer to retain native terminology. I don't know why this should be, but I find it makes them sound much more delectable than prawns; shrimp is such a...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/coconut-shrimp-with-turmeric-yogurt
7 days ago
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And a very special
#CookbookCorner
shoutout for āHoney & Co Daily: Easy Food for your Everyday Pleasureā by Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer!š©µ
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This weekās
#CookbookCorner
stars 'Cooking Made Simple: Foolproof Recipes for Busy People' by Alexandra Dudley. Read more about it and get her recipe for Asparagus and Green Bean Mimosa Salad here:
www.nigella.com/cookbook-cor...
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It might sound like a mad mashup, but in fact this White Miso Hummus is a proper delight. Itās also
#RecipeOfTheDay
!
www.nigella.com/recipes/whit...
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White Miso Hummus
While I freely concede that adding sweet white miso to hummus produces something of a culinary culture clash, the result itself yields a deeply seductive spread. I must also confess that I have to sto...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/white-miso-hummus
8 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
Midweek treat:
#RecipeOfTheDay
is White Chocolate and Passionfruit Mousse! The tang of this fragrantly sour fruit, and of the raspberries nestling at the bottom of each glass, perfectly counters the rich, sweet white chocolate.
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White Chocolate and Passionfruit Mousse
So much in cooking, as in the rest of life I suppose, is about contrast, about balance. Here the acerbic fragrance of the passionfruit undercuts the otherwise over-egged richness of the white chocolat...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/white-chocolate-and-passionfruit-mousse
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Midweek treat:
#RecipeOfTheDay
is White Chocolate and Passionfruit Mousse! The tang of this fragrantly sour fruit, and of the raspberries nestling at the bottom of each glass, perfectly counters the rich, sweet white chocolate.
www.nigella.com/recipes/whit...
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White Chocolate and Passionfruit Mousse
So much in cooking, as in the rest of life I suppose, is about contrast, about balance. Here the acerbic fragrance of the passionfruit undercuts the otherwise over-egged richness of the white chocolat...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/white-chocolate-and-passionfruit-mousse
9 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is Ligurian Pasta with Basil, Beans and Potatoes! Everything is right about it ā it couldnāt be more fragrantly uplifting ā except for the fact that it might be just too hot to cook anything.
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Ligurian Pasta with Basil, Beans and Potatoes
My children, when little, wouldn't have cared if all I ever gave them was pasta with some bottled sauce poured over, and I don't deny that's sometimes indeed what they were given; but to please mysel...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/ligurian-pasta-with-basil-beans-and-potatoes
10 days ago
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This weekās Guest Recipe from the
#CookbookCorner
archive is the Unripe Fruit Salad from 'The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: More Than 1,500 Recipes for Cooking with Economy and Grace' by the wonderful Tamar Adler!
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
10 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is Ligurian Pasta with Basil, Beans and Potatoes! Everything is right about it ā it couldnāt be more fragrantly uplifting ā except for the fact that it might be just too hot to cook anything.
www.nigella.com/recipes/ligu...
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Ligurian Pasta with Basil, Beans and Potatoes
My children, when little, wouldn't have cared if all I ever gave them was pasta with some bottled sauce poured over, and I don't deny that's sometimes indeed what they were given; but to please mysel...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/ligurian-pasta-with-basil-beans-and-potatoes
10 days ago
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Cannot wait to listen!
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10 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is a no-bake Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart which is coolly manageable even in this crazily hot weather!
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Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart
While I believe most emphatically that one should never cook to impress, but rather to delight, the fact remains that this is undeniably a high-impact dessert and, at the same gratifying time, an enco...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/double-chocolate-and-strawberry-tart
11 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is a no-bake Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart which is coolly manageable even in this crazily hot weather!
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Double Chocolate and Strawberry Tart
While I believe most emphatically that one should never cook to impress, but rather to delight, the fact remains that this is undeniably a high-impact dessert and, at the same gratifying time, an enco...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/double-chocolate-and-strawberry-tart
11 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
If you, like me, prefer a potato salad without mayo, then youāve come to the right place:
#RecipeOfTheDay
is My Favourite Potato Salad! The natural sweetness of the steamed potatoes is spikily offset by capers, cornichons ā though you can use gherkins ā and mustard.
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My Favourite Potato Salad
I call this My Favourite Potato Salad, as that is exactly what it is. I may be in the minority here, but what I think of as an American-style potato salad, slicked with mayo, sprinkled with raw onions...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/my-favourite-potato-salad
12 days ago
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If you, like me, prefer a potato salad without mayo, then youāve come to the right place:
#RecipeOfTheDay
is My Favourite Potato Salad! The natural sweetness of the steamed potatoes is spikily offset by capers, cornichons ā though you can use gherkins ā and mustard.
www.nigella.com/recipes/my-f...
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My Favourite Potato Salad
I call this My Favourite Potato Salad, as that is exactly what it is. I may be in the minority here, but what I think of as an American-style potato salad, slicked with mayo, sprinkled with raw onions...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/my-favourite-potato-salad
12 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
#RecipeOfTheDay
is Victoria Sponge, a cake of simple majesty! This one is so wonderfully light, which is partly due to the cornflour/cornstarch in with the flour.
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Victoria Sponge
A Victoria Sponge is one of the simplest cakes there is and quite one of the best. Plain, airy cakes, sandwiched with sweet jam and smooth, whipped cream, even if the cream was not in the original ver...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/victoria-sponge
13 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
is Victoria Sponge, a cake of simple majesty! This one is so wonderfully light, which is partly due to the cornflour/cornstarch in with the flour.
www.nigella.com/recipes/vict...
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Victoria Sponge
A Victoria Sponge is one of the simplest cakes there is and quite one of the best. Plain, airy cakes, sandwiched with sweet jam and smooth, whipped cream, even if the cream was not in the original ver...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/victoria-sponge
13 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
Goujons of Sole ā fish fingers with a French accent ā are
#RecipeOfTheDay
! The sole here is lemon sole, actually a kind of flounder, is delicate, soft and relatively inexpensive, but any tender flatfish would do.
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Goujons of Sole With Dill Mayonnaise
Goujons have fallen from grace, but it is hard to work out why. The crunch of the breadcrumb casing, the tender, yielding softness of the white fish within: this is a fish finger taken to the highest ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/goujons-of-sole-with-dill-mayonnaise
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Goujons of Sole ā fish fingers with a French accent ā are
#RecipeOfTheDay
! The sole here is lemon sole, actually a kind of flounder, is delicate, soft and relatively inexpensive, but any tender flatfish would do.
www.nigella.com/recipes/gouj...
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Goujons of Sole With Dill Mayonnaise
Goujons have fallen from grace, but it is hard to work out why. The crunch of the breadcrumb casing, the tender, yielding softness of the white fish within: this is a fish finger taken to the highest ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/goujons-of-sole-with-dill-mayonnaise
14 days ago
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Nigella Lawson
These sweetly small Soft White Dinner Rolls are
#RecipeOfTheDay
, and theyāre childās play to make. Indeed, my children helped me bake this very batch when they were little! Well worth keeping in mind for entertainment over half term.
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Soft White Dinner Rolls
These are astonishingly relaxing and gratifying to make. Children absolutely adore making them, although the results often don't turn out to be bread rolls, but rather floury lumps and shapes covered ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/soft-white-dinner-rolls
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These sweetly small Soft White Dinner Rolls are
#RecipeOfTheDay
, and theyāre childās play to make. Indeed, my children helped me bake this very batch when they were little! Well worth keeping in mind for entertainment over half term.
www.nigella.com/recipes/soft...
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Soft White Dinner Rolls
These are astonishingly relaxing and gratifying to make. Children absolutely adore making them, although the results often don't turn out to be bread rolls, but rather floury lumps and shapes covered ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/soft-white-dinner-rolls
15 days ago
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I am moved beyond words by this beautiful piece of writing on How To Eat by the wonderful Yasmin Khan
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The Cookbook That Grew Up Alongside Me
The enduring comforts of Nigella's How to Eat
https://open.substack.com/pub/risingup/p/the-cookbook-that-grew-up-alongside?r=2wocu&utm_medium=ios
15 days ago
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šGiven itās World Bee Day, I thought
#RecipeOfTheDay
just had to be this Honey Chocolate Cake!
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Honey Chocolate Cake
I was once in Dean & DeLuca in New York and saw a little chocolate cake decorated with sugar bees. Having gone through a Biedermeier period earlier on in my life, I have something of a weakness for be...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/honey-chocolate-cake
16 days ago
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šGiven itās World Bee Day, I thought
#RecipeOfTheDay
just had to be this Honey Chocolate Cake!
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Honey Chocolate Cake
I was once in Dean & DeLuca in New York and saw a little chocolate cake decorated with sugar bees. Having gone through a Biedermeier period earlier on in my life, I have something of a weakness for be...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/honey-chocolate-cake
16 days ago
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This weekās Guest Recipe from the
#CookbookCorner
archive is the glorious garlic sauce, Toum from 'Rumi: Food of Middle Eastern Appearance' by Joseph Abboud!
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
17 days ago
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#RecipeOfTheDay
positively makes my heart sing: itās Spaghetti alla Carbonara! Nothing better, frankly. And before any of you get snippy about the presence of vermouth, I got inspiration for it from the white wine that the great Marcella Hazan added to hersš¤
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Spaghetti alla Carbonara
This is my favourite ā along with all my other favourites. I love the buttery, eggy creaminess of the sauce, saltily-spiked with hot-cubed bacon: itās comforting, but not in a sofa-bound kind of way. ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/spaghetti-carbonara
17 days ago
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Crunchy Salad with Hot and Sour Dressing is
#RecipeOfTheDay
! It keeps its freshness and bite well, and its zesty, bold flavours provide instant uplift. (The Blackberry in shot tells you how long itās been in my repertoire!)
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Crunchy Salad With Hot and Sour Dressing
This is one of those salads I love to have around to pick at from the fridge or tub up to take with me for brightening food on the move. It's got such powerful flavours and bite, which makes it feel ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/crunchy-salad-with-hot-and-sour-dressing
18 days ago
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Crunchy Salad with Hot and Sour Dressing is
#RecipeOfTheDay
! It keeps its freshness and bite well, and its zesty, bold flavours provide instant uplift. (The Blackberry in shot tells you how long itās been in my repertoire!)
www.nigella.com/recipes/crun...
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Crunchy Salad With Hot and Sour Dressing
This is one of those salads I love to have around to pick at from the fridge or tub up to take with me for brightening food on the move. It's got such powerful flavours and bite, which makes it feel ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/crunchy-salad-with-hot-and-sour-dressing
18 days ago
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The large Yorkshire pudding of a pancake, namely a Dutch Baby, is
#RecipeOfTheDay
!
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Dutch Baby
Iāve only ever eaten Dutch babies in the States, where they are brought out to you at the table with great pomp: great pancakes puffed up and golden, still in the cast-iron skillets they were cooked i...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/dutch-baby
19 days ago
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Eurovision party planned? (Or any other sort of party, for that matter.)
#RecipeOfTheDay
is Negroni Sbagliato, for which you need Prosecco, Campari and sweet red vermouth; an orange would be handy, too!
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Negroni Sbagliato
The classic Negroni is made with Campari, red vermouth and gin. This one, more of a Negroni spritz, using prosecco in place of the gin, is said to have been created by happy accident at the Bar Basso ...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/negroni-sbagliato
20 days ago
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I donāt know what your plans are for the weekend, but should you be having any friends round tomorrow, you might rustle up
#RecipeOfTheDay
. Itās White TiramisĆ¹, a heavenly concoction thatās easy to assemble but does need to be made in advance.
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White Tiramisu
This pudding is always a success: it always works, and everyone always loves it. And I have the great Anna del Conte to thank for it. It is also the recipe that converted me to Tiramisu in the first p...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/white-tiramisu
21 days ago
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I donāt know what your plans are for the weekend, but should you be having any friends round tomorrow, you might rustle up
#RecipeOfTheDay
. Itās White TiramisĆ¹, a heavenly concoction thatās easy to assemble but does need to be made in advance.
www.nigella.com/recipes/whit...
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White Tiramisu
This pudding is always a success: it always works, and everyone always loves it. And I have the great Anna del Conte to thank for it. It is also the recipe that converted me to Tiramisu in the first p...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/white-tiramisu
21 days ago
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Iām so happy to be sent scuttling back to this! And thank you for a beautiful piece of writing.
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And a special
#CookbookCorner
shoutout for the beautiful āTable 4 At The River Cafe: Conversations about Food and Life' by Ruthie Rogers! And Iām honoured to be one of those in conversation hereš©µ
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This weekās
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stars 'Centrepiece: Bold, Vibrant Recipes to put Vegetables in the Spotlight' by Helen Graham! And you can read more about it and get her recipe for No-Churn Muscovado Ice Cream with Ras el Hanout Raisins here:
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