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THE GROUCHY GOURMET – May 2013

24/05/2013 By
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Woody Allen once posed the question: “How do you make God laugh?”, providing the answer: “You tell Him your plans”. I reckon the Good Lord sometimes does have a sense of humour. In 2009 and 2010 when we were coming over from Cyprus to visit Suffolk and think about moving back, we had 80% dry, […]

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RECIPE – Pepperonata

10/05/2013 By
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A summer side-dish or part of an hors d’oeuvres, tasty and tangy. Ingredients for 4-6 servings Four sweet peppers (one each of green, red, yellow and orange) 2 tbsp salad oil (olive or sunflower according to your taste) 2 tsp white wine vinegar 2 des-spoons capers (optional) 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped (optional) Salt and […]

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REVIEW–THE REGATTA at ALDEBURGH

09/05/2013 By
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Twenty one years is a long time in one’s life, but to hold sway over the same hot kitchen, cooking lunch and dinner in a 60-cover restaurant for that length of time is really something. To still enthusiastically produce plates of very, very good food is something else. Robert Mabey has been doing this at […]

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THE ENDURING TUREEN

03/05/2013 By
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  Mary and I salute a friend of more than 20 years who is returning home on May 6th. to Vouni, the Cyprus hill village where we also had our home for many years. Kari Seilo has come through many weeks of surgery and post-operative therapy and has been judged well enough to go home […]

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SAXMUNDHAM’S NEWEST SHOP…. AND ITS OLDEST….

29/04/2013 By
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Toasties at Trinity’s They used to be called toasted sandwich makers, but since we went all Continental they’re now “Panini Makers” (the two halves open wider than on an old toasted sandwich maker). You get this eponymous oblong roll, cut it open and stuff some cheese and ham inside. You then put the roll on […]

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BOOK REVIEW – The Undelivered Mardle, by John Rogers. “A Memoir of Belief, Doubt and Delight”. 158 pages, hard back, published by Darton, Longman & Todd at £12.99, with a foreword by Ronald Blythe..

07/04/2013 By
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         A “Mardle” is a talk of local interest. The people of Letheringham had asked Rendham resident John Rogers to deliver such a talk to them at their ancient priory church. Early on the day he was to drive to Letheringham to give his Mardle, Monday March 26th 2007, John was struck by […]

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