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Challah
Sprinkle 2 packages active yeast and a pinch of sugar over 1 cup warm water and stir to dissolve. Add 2 eggs, 1 egg yolk, 1/4 cup sugar, and 1/4 cup vegetable oil. Stir in 4 cups bread flour and knead for 10 minutes. Put the dough in an oiled bowl and leave covered until…
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Chocolate Wacky Cake
Sift 1.5 cups plain flour with 1 tsp baking soda and 1/3 cup cocoa powder. Stir in 1 cup caster sugar. In a separate bowl combine 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbs vinegar, 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1 cup water. Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients then pour into a 25cm springform…
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Cherry cheesecake
Beat 2 x 250g blocks Philadelphia cream cheese with 120g sifted icing sugar, the juice of one lemon and a teaspoon vanilla extract. Whip a 600ml bottle of cream. Combine the cream cheese mixture with the whipped cream. Process a 355g package of digestive biscuits in a food processor and mix with 150g melted butter.…
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Vegetable soup with pesto
Sauté 2 leeks slice thinly, 4 garlic cloves chopped and 2 celery sticks sliced thinly in olive oil in a large pot until softened. Add 2 zucchinis quartered lengthways, and 2 bunches asparagus. Pour in 1 litre stock and bring to a boil. Add 3 tablespoons pesto then serve.
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Cabbage and Sausages
Heat a dash of oil in enamel cast iron pot and sauté 2 onions, 2 carrots, a stick of celery and 4 cloves garlic. Then add 100ml white wine vinegar and 300ml wine. Reduce to a glaze then add tablespoon dried thyme or few sprigs fresh thyme. Cut half a cabbage into 4 wedges and…
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Minestrone with sausage, cannellini beans and Ruby chard
Roughly chop 8 sausages and add to a large pot and cook in their fat until browned a bit. Add 1 sliced onion and 3 cloves garlic finely chopped, 1 carrot chopped and 1 stick celery chopped. Sweat in the pot for about 5 minutes. Then add 150g Arborio rice, a tin of tomatoes and…
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Kale with lemon chilli garlic butter beans
Heat peanut oil in a wok then fry 3 cloves finely chopped garlic, a teaspoon chilli flakes and the zest of one lemon then add a tin of butter beans. When beans have become golden add a bunch of roughly chopped kale with stems removed. Add juice one one lemon and cook until kale has…
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Vietnamese chicken salad
Put 300g vermicelli rice noodles in a pot and pour over boiling water, and let stand for 15 minutes. Drain and rinse in cold water. Meanwhile chop the leaves of a bunch of coriander, a bunch of mint, a whole lettuce, a cucumber and a carrot and place in a bowl. Marinate 4 chicken breasts…
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Leek tart
Slice 3 leeks and 1 celery stalk and sweat in a pan with olive oil on very low heat. Add 300ml cream and then 1 beaten egg. Season. Put mixture onto piece of puff pastry and then bake at 180°C for 30 minutes.
Fifteen Kilograms of Imperfect Lemons 