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Portuguese wine: Vino Verde and Pan Fried Sardines Recipe (serves 2 )

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Portuguese wine like Vino Verde are often as rustic as the food and the secret here is local food with local wine! Read more about Portuguese wine. Sardines are eaten all over Portugal and are appreciated for its simplicity. Grilled or pan fried and served with lemon is still the best way with cold local Vino [...]

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Wine with Indian food?

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Guest blog by Jean Crous from CtheChange.com >>I found this Q & A on Yahoo answers regarding Wine with Indian food. Q:Hi; I’m making vegetarian Indian-style food, and I know that wine is not usually consumed with this, but I’m curious to know if there is something that can accommodate it. For example; I’m making [...]

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Supper Club, Newlands Cape Town!

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Guest blog by Anita Streicher from Fairview Wine Estate >> Dear all! Just wanted to congratulate Neil Anthony Vaughan from 3FIG on his launch dinner for their Supper Club last week! The food and wines were fantastic! What a great chef you are! The St Patricks Day offering was a treat!! I am so gonna invite friends [...]

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Recipe – New York Caesar Salad and Chardonnay

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The East Coast of America is legendary for its seafood and shellfish, including the famous Maine Lobsters but New York City is a case on its own where the dishes of countless nationalities have been adapted to American life. There are many different versions of this classic salad and contrary to popular belief it was [...]

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The Humble Sandwich

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There is something deeply satisfying about a common sandwich! We sometimes forget that we grew up with it! It was in our lunchbox at school, at our family picnics, on road trips, fishing trips and even on the BBQ. It is also a deeply personal thing because we all like it our own way and [...]

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Finding the weird and wonderful delights of Bangkok China Town!

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Finding the weird and wonderful delights of Bangkok China Town! Dawid goes hunting for Bird’s nest soup, Pigs broth & crispy oyster omelette.

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Tom Yum Goong from Thailand

Returning home last night after a dinner with friends I could still taste the exotic hot & sour flavors in my mouth of the Tom Yum Goong. This was very much a group effort and there is something magical and deeply special about cooking with friends. There was a lot of laughter, music, friendly banter, [...]

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Im Back in the UK!

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Dear All Members I have finally touched down after 2 weeks of intense filming and tasting my way through Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. To say the least it was an awesome experience! I made new friends, acquired a few more members, attended a Thai cooking school, delivered a tasting in Malaysia, did some [...]

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Airport “salad” or not?

Airport Salad

You arrive with your fancy unidentified dressing, green leaves and crispy topping, but what are you, where are you from and who are you? I wanted you because it said on the menu: Chinese Chicken Salad. So what is a Chinese Chicken Salad? To be honest, I have no idea but if I knew that [...]

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Recipe Vegetarian Risotto

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The vegetarians are knocking on the door & you’ve only prepped peppered steak with brandy sauce! What to do? Dawid comes to the rescue with quick and easy pea & spinach risotto Recipe for under £5. Serves 4 We knocked up this for lunch the other day – done in a jiffy! To make a [...]

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Little Gem in Thailand!

Rice and Tomato sauce wrapped in banana leaf

Im on the border between Thailand and Malaysia, quite hungry and very tired when a boy offered me some rice & tomato sauce wrapped in a banana leaf. It was only 4p but to be honest it was one of the high lights of my trip! Comment by M.Radzian M.Azman “Have it in the morning [...]

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Recipe: Peppered Steak and Shiraz (Serves 2)

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Cooking down under has come a long way since the height of sophistication was the perfect pastry or consommé. Australia was desperate to get away from the worst aspects of old fashioned British cuisine and welcomed the revolution in Aussi eating with the first wave of Mediterranean immigrants and of course the fact that Asia [...]

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Birds nest soup in Bangkok China Town

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You cannot leave Bangkok without visiting China Town!! Street eating rules here and the best kitchens don’t require walls or a roof! You can get anything here from pigs trotters to shark fin soup. I have always wanted to try “birds nest soup” a delicious delicate soup made from the saliva of a particular bird. [...]

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The Thai Cooking School

Fresh from the Thai market

So Nonna was a man at the bottom end AND at the head of the school He runs a tight ship and nothing escapes him. We missed out going to the market because it was my turn to get the dodgy taxi driver, the one you get warned about in guide books. We walked down [...]

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Chicken or Fish? It’s all in the taste!!

Chicken or Fish

Well I can honestly say that the Chickenfish tasted like fish in the end. There was so much chili and garlic on it so it is hard to say but the overall conclusion is that this ugly creature tasted like fish in the end! In Malaysia everything is served with rice so I had no [...]

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Great white wine tasted at Chez Janou, Paris

Guest blog by Jaco >> Great wine at Chez Janou, Paris Cotes de Rhone, Chapoutier, Belleruche A great and very popular Bistro style eatery – book in advance or arrive early! www.chezjanou.com 2 Rue Roger Verlomme 75003 Paris, France 01 42 72 28 41 Beware the Chocolate Mouse – it arrives by the Ladle full!

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Recipe Valentine’s Crispy Oysters , Black Peppered Honey and Muscadet (serves 2)

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It’s a well known fact that Oysters are widely recognized as an aphrodisiac. We have been eating fresh oysters since Roman times and even cooked ones have been around for a while, just thinking of a classic like Oyster Rockefeller. I particularly like the twist to this recipe, just the word crispy is making my [...]

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A little bit of German heaven on Belgrave Square

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I’ve just returned home from the Germany Wine Masterpiece Tasting. It’s been a long time since I’ve tasted such an amazing selection of German wines under one roof! Well done Iris for putting together such an amazing day. MY HIGHTLIGHTS WERE: Weingut Wirsching – Franken www.wirsching.de Meet the Doctor!! It was a pleasure to meet [...]

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New Year’s Eve Fiz

Berringer Rose – The first thing I thought was that someone dropped some berries in the bottle or something weird happened, but of course that cannot be so it must be me dreaming!!
The fact is that this rose smelled of boiled sweets, candy, strawberries and a big bowl full of “loveliness” The only thing that worried me was that I thought it was going to be a little too sweet for me and as expected it was quite sweet. It was delicious to say the least but maybe a little

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Christmas Special

2008 Kumala Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon

Yes it is that time of the year again and even if you said you are doing nothing for X-Mas you should, like myself, always have a few bottles of bubbly in the fridge for those unplanned moments when you just wished that you had something chilled. We are also all aware of the fact [...]

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