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Carrot soup with dukkah

The ladies at the market must love it when they see me coming. I knew they would overcharge me, a towering white girl with no Vietnamese, I mean who wouldn’t? It isn’t by much, but I am sure that I’m paying the requisite white tax. I don’t mind though, I deserve it with my lack [...]

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Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Soup

Tastes change.
I used to hate mushrooms, though you’d never know it if you saw me inhaling the garlic mushrooms at a Tapas bar. I also turned my nose up at Brussels Sprouts until very recently and now I can’t get enough of the little cabbagy delights. As children, we often deem strong tastes repulsive, pushed [...]

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Spiced Cauliflower Soup

It is a joy not to rush. A lazy Sunday morning, a relaxing summer evening, sleeping in, dawdling.
It is a beautiful thing to take things slowly, to simply enjoy the moment.
I feel the same way about discovery. To find everything out at once would be overwhelming, disappointingly leaving nothing for the future. This is why [...]

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Moroccan Lamb and Chickpea Soup, set and forget.

I am not a great clipper of recipes. A few years ago, packing to move I was horrified that more than a box was being filled with food magazines, so I clipped all the recipes out of them (and now have no idea when my filed collection is). But that experience was really my only [...]

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Subtle Spinach Soup/Focus on Spinach.

I don’t often follow savoury main recipes. I have my own way of doing things which is completely at odds with my cookery training. See, I have a thing about vegetables, something along the lines of a mantra of plenty and varied. This makes it difficult to highlight an individual vegetable as they get overshadowed [...]

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