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Recipe – Breaded Chicken Escalopes – and a Tomato Sauce to go with them and some Pasta

22/01/2013 By
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You can buy these ready-breaded if you like, but bear in mind they cost more than the DIY variety and, frankly, don’t taste so good. Freshly made is best and they are always popular with family and friends. Ideal with pasta and tomato sauce (again, homemade triumphs by a mile over the store-made or bottled […]

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RECIPE – Sauté of Chicken and Mushrooms

07/01/2013 By
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 A good sauté should be cooked quite slowly to allow the flavours to meld and the sauce to thicken and become nice and rich.  The first chicken and mushroom sauté I recall clearly was at a mainly-lobster restaurant overlooking the Atlantic in Brittany, a long time ago.  My wife and I had been commissioned to […]

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Steamed Sea Bass with Fresh Ginger and Spring Onions.

03/01/2013 By
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  A nice lunch or light evening meal   Something a little different with a rather oriental flavour. The nicest fish I know cooked this way is sea bass, but any good cut of firm white fish will give you a delightful and not rich, main dish. It helps to have a steamer, but if you […]

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Recipe – Linguine with Mushrooms, Peas, Bacon and Leeks

20/12/2012 By
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As write, the rain continues to  fall.  It is damp, dank and miserable.  A quick hot uplifting plate of something was called for at lunch time, made from what was in the house, neither of us feeling willing to brave the elements to go shopping.  Pasta is always welcome, and provided you have a sauce […]

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A gift for all seasons…..for many reasons

18/12/2012 By
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No matter if you’re Suffolk coast born and bred, an occasional visitor, a part-time resident, or like me a Patrick-come-lately to this lovely part of the world, I have a book before me that everyone should have. Buy one as a gift and I promise you will either keep that one for yourself or buy […]

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WHEELERS – Reviving a famous name, at the Lifeboat Inn, Thornham

20/11/2012 By
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A few weeks ago, browsing through the RSPB Magazine, as one does, I noticed an appealing looking and sounding inn/restaurant /hotel on the Norfolk coast, literally amid a number of nature reserves offering jolly days and nights away. My wife who is not a Twitcher, but enjoys a bit of bird watching, enthused that a […]

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