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Dead Simple Paella
They tend to make it complicated but this is the lazy version Paella is a Spanish dish that uses more or less whatever ingredients you have handy. There are seafood versions, chicken recipes with...
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Beef Stroganoff – dead easy old favourite
This is a dead-easy and quick meal that tends to impress the pants off guests because it sounds and looks exotic. Once you’ve bought the ingredients, it takes about 5 minutes prep time and 10 -15...
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Spectacular Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
It’s dead-easy Christmas is still ahead of us and we seem to have had a long, hot summer already. This is the time for cool salads and chilled white wine. The dressing makes this one a beauty, but...
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Dead-Easy Osso Buco
This is a lazy, cheap, hearty casserole you can serve with rice or noodles My favourite is Basmati rice which I cook for 17-18 minutes (no more, no less) in water kept at a decent boil. The Osso Buco...
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Dead Easy Fish Stew
If you ‘re looking for an easy way to cook mouth-watering meals, you’ve come to the right place. I love cooking but have no patience, and I’m bone lazy. That doesn’t mean I can’t cook, it means I...
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Dead Easy Boef Bourgignon
This is one of our winter favourites, dead easy to cook, not expensive, just takes a couple of slow hours in the oven. Great with rich, robust reds INGREDIENTS One Kilo of chuck or blade steak 250g of...
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Dead Easy Salade Nicoise
This salad has many variations, depending on where you look for the recipe, and that’s part of the beauty of making this one: the creative latitude it gives you. There are 3 ingredients that...
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Dead Easy Scrumptious Lamb Shanks
THIS CASSEROLE WILL WARM YOUR HEART & LIFT YOUR SPIRITS WORKS EVEN BETTER WITH A BOTTLE OF GOOD AUSSIE RED INGREDIENTS 4 smallish lamb shanks 4-5 spring onions 3-4 carrots 4-5 baby parsnips (or...
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Dead Easy CASSOULET – food for cold weather
This is an Alsatian dish that will warm the cockles of your heart on a cold day. You can use pretty well any meat you like except beef. It’s often duck in France, but you can use chicken and bacon...
View ArticleMatching Wine and Food
The recipes below are all simple, with the emphasis on real flavours not fancy footwork. When you succeed in matching the right wines with these dishes, you end up with a 1+1= 3 kind of result. Some...
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Dead Simple Chorizo Chicken with Oregano & Sour Cream
This dish serves up plenty of flavour without fancy ingredients Ingredients 3 chicken Marylands (free range or organic for more flavour) 2-3 chorizo sausages 2-3 garlic cloves 3-4 Spring onions, or...
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Matching Wine with Food – 2 plus 2 = 5
Once More with Feeling! We had dinner with good friends last weekend. The food and wine were really enjoyable but would’ve been more so with more careful matching. A lovely rich 2007 Chardonnay...
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Dead Easy Pork and Fennel Pot Roast
It’s not just easy, it’s a knockout too, but it’s a casserole really You can use several cuts of pork for this dish, as long as they have a certain amount of fat: a boned pork neck or pork shoulder,...
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Peperonata Roast Chicken
This is a great but simple recipe from Warren Mendes in Delicious magazine’s Daily Special series. We’ve cooked this a couple of times now, and made some small mods. Photo source: Delicious magazine...
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Wine and Food, and more on 2+2 making 5
What makes wine unique is its wonderful affinity with food. In addition, food and wine work better in good company. For many people, cooking is a chore. For some of us – me for one – it’s a time when...
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Dead Easy Beef Goulash
It really is easy but for years I kept adding stuff to the simple recipe to improve on it, and never ended up with that authentic Goulash taste. In my defence, I could argue that Goulash is one of...
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Making the Best Red Pasta Sauce doesn’t have to be hard work
It’s astonishing how many people get really serious about pasta sauce, even if they don’t do much other cooking. Pasta Sauce seems to be a matter of male pride, like power tools and lawn mowers. One of...
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Dead Simple Paella
They tend to make it complicated but this is the lazy version I watched the Spanish mother and son team on MKR lasy night, hoping to learn more secrets about this wonderful. Sadly, something went wrong...
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Roast chicken with lemon, thyme & roast vegetables
Yes it’s dead simple but it’s a dish fit for a king when you get it right. The simpler the dish, the more important the ingredients. That’s because you’re not adding anything fancy, so it’s best to...
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Dead Easy Slow-cooked Lamb Shoulder
Lamb shoulders are tough and full of gristle from elastin that won’t break down, but the flavour makes up for these shortcomings. It’s best to ask your butcher to semi-cut the shoulder into portions...
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