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Lime Infused Panna Cotta with berries & fizz
Lime Panna Cotta with berries and fizz to ring in New Years. Bring out your favourite stem glasses and make this simple stunning dessert that everyone will love!
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Best Vegan Roasted Pumpkin & Sundried Tomato Pizza Galette
The Best Roasted Pumpkin & Sundried Tomato Pizza Galette ... this vegan savoury bake hit the ball out of the park. It has everything good about it, and is the easiest to make.…
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Quick No Yeast Garlic Pizza, or just ‘simple quick no- planning required’ pizza.
No Yeast Garlic Pizza ... the simplest and one of the quickest pizzas I've ever made! It's part wholegrain, requires no yeast and therefore no proofing/rising time! Also in notes, an oven roasted…
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Savoury Granola – gluten free, healthy, addictive
Savoury granola is delicious, addictive, crisp & crunchy good! Good for breakfast, as a snack, over salads etc. This quick healthy bake is also great as a part of a trail mix, or…
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GRILL IN with summer … a charcoal grill & herby lime chicken
Summers here, and that means GRILL GRILL GRILL! Here's a nice herby Italian chicken that is simple, full of flavour and beautifully smoked on the bbq.
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Espresso Panna Cotta … sweet dreams are made of these
Espresso Panna Cotta. Smooth, silky, seductive with coffee written all over it, how can dessert be so indulgent. The simplest make ahead dessert ever!
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Green Bean Potato Salad
It's the passion, the energy, the enthusiasm, the free spirited and relaxed young chef who greets you. The emotions are infectious and before you know it, the charismatic Maurizio Raselli casts a spell…
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David Rocco, an Italian with a disarming smile. Of course he’s a chef too!
This Italian food guru was at the mercy of a bunch of women food bloggers to "Celebrate the Exquisite Flavors of Italy at ITC Maurya". David Rocco is such a good sport!!
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Lamb & Beet Greens Calzones, Pies & Popovers …pizza dough 3 ways
Lamb & Beet Greens - Calzones, Pies & Popovers ...pizza dough three ways. One batch went a long way. Deliciously too with mince lamb and beet greens. We had calzones one day, pizza…
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Saffron Caramel Panna Cotta
Perfect Spring dessert, the panna cotta came together like a beautiful dream, lilting, mesmerising, smooth, perfect, like a dream you didn't want to wake up from. The textures teased the palette and we…
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Baking | Roasted Garlic Foccacia … & a salute to the ‘Fukushima 50’!
A handsome splash of extra virgin olive oil, a couple of heads of roasted garlic in the dough, a sprinkling of fresh oregano, sea salt & more garlic on top. I couldn't have…
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Italian Food Event| Sapori de lombardia – Menu Sampling at Italia
Lombardy is doing the foodie rounds here in New Delhi with a unique Lombardian promotion at Italia, the celebrated award winning Italian restaurant from The Park, which offers a variety of authentic Italian…
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Baking/Cooking| Homemade Potato Gnocchi with Roasted Pepper Cream Sauce
Homemade potato gnocchi in a delicate roasted bell pepper sauce ... pillows of heaven take on new meaning! A great recipe for those 'meatless' days, and another delicious way to use spuds!
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European Art of Taste – EAT … The taste of Europe on Indian Grounds
“The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love, for those you are cooking for.” Sophia Loren The other day I was excited to receive an invite for a Press Conference and…
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Tiramisu from scratch … heaven on a dessert plate! A cohosted DB challenge
Tiramisu from scratch is made up of several components which can be made separately and ahead of time and put together the day before serving. It makes the most delicious dessert!
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Amici Café … ♥ Good food, friends and menu sampling ♥
“Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant – I don’t know if that’s the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.” Sally…
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DRIED CRANBERRY & WALNUT BREAD from Ottolenghi for BBD, with Roasted Bell Pepper Pasta
“Bread is the warmest, kindest of all words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.”…from a café sign Bread Baking Day #26, Bread For a Birthday Party Yay…finally managed…
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40 GARLIC CHICKEN AL MATTONE…& PAPER CHEF
“My God, he looks like he’s beating a chicken.”Byron Nelson Have you ever done a spatchcock on a blessed chicken? A 40 garlic chicken recipe, ‘Roasted Butterflied Chicken’ at Pig Pig’s Corner, a…
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CHICKEN RICOTTA LASAGNA…my best yet!
“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”W. C. Fields My fascination with fresh home made soft cheese continues. Vera’s blog, Baking Obsession, is constant inspiration, & I…
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ITALIAN CHICKEN ON STICKS… & SOME SHOPPING IN NEW DELHI !!
“Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet…
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ZUNI RICOTTA GNOCCHI – Time For the Daring Cooks!!
“Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably and astonish slightly, without shocking.”Jean Marie Amat Here we are with the very first Daring Cooks’ challenge … Ricotta Gnocchi being hosted…
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CHIPOTLE GARLIC FOCACCIA & ROMESCO DIP
“We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.” C.S. Lewis Made some scrumptious Chipotle Garlic Focaccia some days ago,…
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GETTING MY HERBS RIGHT WITH PASTA & CHICKEN
“A man’s nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.”Francis Bacon, Sr. Do I know my herbs? Well I thought I did,…
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STRAWBERRY YOGURT PANNA COTTA
“The secret lies in the love and the effort the maker puts into the creation. It really is a simple dessert to make. There’s nothing to it.” Maria Olivas Have finally found the…
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ROLL BABY ROLL…The Daring Bakers make Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna
“When the lasagna content in my blood gets low, I get mean” Garfield the Cat The net is buzzing with excitement as we, the Daring Bakers, take up our latest challenge ‘biceps on’…
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ROASTED RED BELL PEPPER & LAMB PASTA…HHDD & CLICK
“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”Marcel Boulestin This is my first entry for a Hay Hay it’s Donna Day event, & for…
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PITA + PANINI = PITANINI…Crossover bread!!
“The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination” Ralph Waldo Emerson There are 2 posts racing each other in my head at the moment, & I’ve got to panini first. The other…
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PUMPKIN PANNA COTTA…Pumpkin Spice & All Things Nice!
“Ask not what your Pumpkin can do for you, ask what you can do for your pumpkin!” I walked into the bazaar the other morning to come face to face with a very…
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STRAWBERRY PANNA COTTA WITH A STRAWBERRY COULIS…the one that wouldn’t oblige!
“I leave my fats for dessert.”Bruce Mathews My favourite dessert of all time is a panna cotta. Panna cotta, an Italian dessert, which literally means cooked cream, is luxurious & creamy, eggless &…
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BREAKING TRADITION TO SERVE FUSILLI WITH MEATBALLS!
“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Fellini Happy after the success of my precious jar of Sun-dried tomatoes, it was but natural progression that I began to explore recipes that these…
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BALSAMIC & HERB GRILLED CHICKEN WITH BELL PEPPER SALSA
“Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.” George Byron It’s Sunday today, it’s been a race, & thankfully, it’s finally drawing to an end. Am sitting here quite exhausted because the…
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I SPY A PIE…IT’S SAVOURY & IT’S FOR IVY!
“Men may come and men may go…..but Pie goes on for ever.” George Augustus Sala All savoury pie roads lead to Ivy’s @ Kopiaste this September. There’s a savoury pie food event at…
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HEY PRESTO…MIXED-HERBS PASTA
“Life is a combination of magic and pasta” Fellini Psychgrad & Giz @ Equal Opportunity Kitchen are hosting the weekly round-up of Presto Pasta Nights this week. Presto Pasta Nights is the brainchild…
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2 Toned Biscotti – Coffee & Chocolate
“Yield to temptation…it may not pass your way again” Lazarus Long On the 5th of September every year, schools across India celebrate this day as Teachers Day. Every attempt is made to make…
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Canneloni with Potatoes, Cottage-cheese & Sweetcorn… lasagna on a roll
Canneloni with Potatoes, Cottage-cheese & Sweetcorn... lasagna on a roll. a nice, light summer vegetarian main course dish. You cold try it with a mushroom cream sauce over the marinara, maybe a bechamel,…
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RUSTIC ITALIAN FOCACCIA…IN A RING & MORE!
“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”Robert Browning as rustic as it gets… Italian artisan bread… Thicker than a pizza, this dimpled bread, focaccia,…
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COFFEE and ROASTED ALMOND BISCOTTI…a handsome combination!
“I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food” Erma Bombeck Coffee & Roasted Almonds…a handsome combination I have my biscotti moments…at times, I will suddenly alight & set off to…
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COFFEE & ROASTED ALMOND BISCOTTI…a handsome combination!
“I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food” Erma Bombeck Coffee & Roasted Almonds…a handsome combination I have my biscotti moments…at times, I will suddenly alight & set off to…
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PEST of a PESTO… but then onto PASTA! ‘PUTTING UP’!!
“How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers?” Andrew Marvel Basil Almond Pesto… Snip,snip,snip…all I could hear out in the garden was snip, snip, snip. Sunday morning,…
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A TOAST TO ROASTED GARLIC…SPAGHETTI & FOCACCIA…& another award!
“Garlic is a habit and a passion.” Kim Upton, Chicago Sun-Times Of Spaghetti & Vegetables… this one’s a combination full-of-flavour! Bursting with flavour…an incredibly delicious focaccia! Ever since I read that Casa Bencomo…
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READY,STEADY,COOK…Pasta, Grilled Cottage Cheese & Salad!
“The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.” Anthelme Brillat–Savarin A Vegetarian challenge… Wonder how many of you have heard of the BBC daytime…
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LIME YOGURT PANNA COTTA…GUILT-FREE INDULGENCE!
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls Wilder Yogurt Panna Cotta…the healthier Option! My love for panna cotta knows no bounds. This is…
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LOAFING AROUND…FOCACCIA with garlic, onion & fresh basil
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” Aesop VICTORY LOAF….FOCACCIA! Come spring & you find breads being baked with renewed fervour. Easter holiday breads are popping up…
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PIZZA FROM SCRATCH…Winning over yeast!!
“The belly rules the mind.” Spanish Proverb PIZZA FROM SCRATCH… My battle with yeast is an old one…it never seemed to give me results that others proudly displayed. I was beginning to bear…
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ITALIAN CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES…food-as-a-gift for Christmas!
‘There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.’ Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers“ Up, Close & Chocolicious! Italian Almond Chocolate Truffles… I had an old truffle recipe, which…
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ROASTED VEGGIE PASTA PIE…A welcome vegetarian option!
“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” Mark Twain PENNE & ROASTED VEGETABLES IN A PASTA PIE This…
