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  • Chickpeas with Spinach

    Spanish style chickpeas and spinach

    Chickpeas and spinach. It’s the perfect counterbalance to a weekend of over indulgence beginning with buttered hot cross buns and ending with an orgy of chocolate. But I’m not an ascetic and these Spanish style chickpeas still taste like feasting, with the warm garlic and...

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  • 640corn

    Corn and Edamame beans with Miso butter

    The corn is ready! After watching it grow in my father’s garden for weeks now, I finally have some sitting on the kitchen bench proving patience is rewarded. Peeling back the layers of husk, and discarding the silk we used to festoon ourselves with as...

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  • Slow Roasted tomatoes

    Slow Roasted tomatoes

    In the first of an occasional series on Slow Food, I want to show how simple ingredients can be elevated to something extraordinary by removing that modern day dogma of “cooking must not take time”. I do appreciate that after a long day at work,...

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