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PICKLE IT

PICKLE IT

Don't throw out the rind after devouring the delicious, juicy flesh of an ice cold watermelon. Pickle It! Delicious with cold meats, oily fish, chopped finely and tossed through a salad, as a garnish for canapes or wherever you'd like a bit of zing ....

NEAT SWEET SOY SAUCE

NEAT SWEET SOY SAUCE

Recently I wanted to make an Asian dish that called for Kecap Manis, the sweet soy sauce that’s an essential ingredient in so much Indonesian and Malaysian food.

While gluten-free soy sauce is readily available these days, gluten-free Kecap Manis is still a bit of a rarity, although, as I’ve since discovered, it’s a piece of cake to make a pretty good version at home ....

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TARAMASALATA

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TARAMASALATA

When a cook starts blending together eggs, garlic, a touch of lemon juice and olive oil the expected result is mayonnaise. And yet when the eggs are fish roe the outcome is taramasalata. Having made it recently, I’ve only just realised that the classic Greek dip is in fact a form of mayonnaise ....

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ONION MARMALADE

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ONION MARMALADE

This easy but delicious accompaniment can be made even easier if you can commandeer a friendly partner to peel the onions for you. I usually take unfair advantage and hand over kilos. My partner will happily peel away as long as he is positioned in front of a football game so it seems that in our house onion marmalade is a winter, weekend production....