"Ginger-nuts"

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The village lady who helps in the garden loves them, kids adore them, neighbours pop in when they know Mary has baked some. They’re called “Ginger-nuts” and they are delicious home-made biscuits. The recipe is from a very well known cook of yesteryear whose columns were widely read in newspapers and magazines in the UK […]

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Chocolate and Banana Dessert

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The pastry kitchen at the Coral Beach Resort, Paphos prepares a range of good, sweet things for the hotel’s restaurants. This is just one, a lovely combination of chocolate, banana and other flavours on a praline base, which is served with a raspberry and rosemary sorbet. Ingredients for the Chocolate Mousse 100 g egg yolk […]

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Chicken Waterzoi

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Recipe from Belgium Belgium is a country I don’t think a lot about but in which my wife and I have had some wonderful gastronomic experiences. You can gorge yourself to death in the Ardennes, if you like, whilst on the Channel coast you can find a perfect Dover sole and lots more besides. Whilst […]

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Marble Cheese Cake

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This is a great and perennial favourite dessert at the InterContinental at Aphrodite Hills – an unusual and delicious cheesecake. Ingredients for 6 Servings 875 g cream cheese 200 g icing sugar 4 large eggs 200 g 70% dark chocolate melted 125 g icing sugar Method Preheat the oven to 210°C. In one mixing bowl, […]

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Omelette Arnold Bennett

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Recipe from “Patrick Skinner’s Cyprus Kitchen”, illustrated by Alyana Cazalet Allegedly the invention of novelist and long-time London "Evening Standard" theatre critic, Arnold Bennett, in the 1920’s, and to be found to this day on the menus of clubs and restaurants around Fleet Street. It is a splendidly rich and tasty concoction. Ingredients for 3-4 […]

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Tiramisu

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Luigi Afelba, more usually simply called “Gino” heads up the animated battery of chefs who cook your meal in front of you at the ‘La Boca’ Italian restaurant at the Columbia Plaza in St, Andrews Street Limassol. Gino loves nothing better than inventing or cooking a special dish, but masterminds the range of popular anti-pasti, […]

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