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Beautiful Bean and Bacon Salad
This simple salad makes a tasty main meal. Bean, Bacon & Spinach Salad – to serve 4 12 rashers streaky bacon 4 tbsp Sherry vinegar few handfuls of roasted red peppers from a jar, drained and sliced...
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Carbonara Cabbage
This is delicious but very rich, plus a little goes a long way! We found this a really good twist on a classic. Carbonara Cabbage – serves 8 1kg Savoy cabbage, finely shredded 12 rashers streaky bacon,...
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Banana Pancakes with Maple Syrup and Smokey Bacon
We made this for a Saturday breakfast and really enjoyed the playful balance of flavours. The pancakes are light, fluffy and not too sweet. Banana pancakes with maple syrup and smokey bacon – serves 4...
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Potato Wedges with Gorgonzola Sauce
These are very delicious and perfect to share out of a big bowl in front of the TV on a Friday night – or at least that’s what we did. The bacony crumbs are a revelation! We expected the bacon to be...
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Weeknight Pasta Inspiration
We like simple pasta dishes for when we’re feeling tired and uninspired. You can easily get the ingredients for this on your way home. Wine Suggestion: A Chianti, as we felt like it and it worked...
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Celeriac, Potato & Rosemary Gratin
This takes a dish we all love and gives it something special. As celeriac is in season, and very cheap at the moment, we’ve made this a lot recently and thoroughly enjoyed it each time. We haven’t...
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Courgette Carbonara
We are getting close to the last courgettes for the season and what a way to celebrate this humble vegetable … delicious! Wine Suggestion: We drank an Aligote from Jean Fournier in Burgundy. Aligote is...
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Roussillon Baked Potatoes
Very simple and utterly delicious. Baked potatoes reach a whole new level when you mix the cooked potato with the toppings before baking for a second time. Roussillon baked potatoes – serves 2 2 baking...
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Good Old Bacon & Cabbage
Our mate Brett got us this genuine Kassler, a pork loin expertly cured and lightly smoked by Ed Hicks in Dun Laoghaire. If you can’t find Kassler use a smoked bacon loin or rack and prepare yourself...
View ArticleSpaghetti With Mushrooms, Bacon & Cream
A sort of carbonara-style dish but far from authentic. It’s tasty though, and we get requests for this version so we’ll keep making it. Wine Suggestion: We opened a bottle of the Colterenzio Pinot...
View ArticleRabbit with Onions & Rosemary
A rustic French dish with meltingly tender rabbit. Serve with the lamb’s lettuce salad (included in the recipe) and some roasted baby potatoes. Wine Suggestion: This goes great with with a nice...
View ArticleChicken Tartiflette
Reblochon cheese from the Alps arrives in the cheese shops from May and reminds us to make tartiflette, the famous dish from France’s Haute-Savoie region made with cheese, bacon, potatoes and onions....
View ArticleBroad Beans with Pancetta
A tasty side dish that works at any time of the year provided you’ve a stash of broad beans in the freezer. Broad beans with pancetta – serves 4 500g frozen broad beans 70g cubetti di pancetta 2...
View ArticleButtered Sprouts with Chestnuts & Bacon
Sprouts are not just for Christmas and indeed should be eaten throughout the frosty months in our opinion. We particularly like this recipe with butter, bacon bits and chestnuts – a sprout-lovers...
View ArticleFriday Night Tartiflette
Reblochon season begins in May so it’s time to indulge in a Tartiflette. If you want to try a sophisticated version then we recommend the Chicken Tartiflette we posted this time last year but it does...
View ArticleCrushed Potatoes with Broad Beans
We know it’s not broad bean season, but frozen broad beans are right up there with frozen peas as an excellent frozen veg and so we eat them all year round. This is a recipe from Summer Kitchens by...
View ArticleSautéed Potatoes with Bacon Lardons & Persillade
We often end up with all sorts of odds and ends after cooking at the weekend. So a regular Monday night dinner for us is lots of veggie side dishes, all served together. It’s a bit like a roast dinner...
View ArticleBeans on Toast
Much more filling than the tinned variety but unlike a number of other baked bean recipes, you don’t have to start with dried beans. This is quick and still pretty handy for lunch. Beans on toast –...
View ArticleCreamy Lentil & Spinach Soup with Bacon
We make soup most weeks during the cooler months and we really loved this one! The streaky bacon garnish is nice but it’s also good without it. Creamy lentil & spinach soup with bacon – serves 4 2...
View ArticleQuiche Lorraine
Pastry is not an area of expertise for us, as we make it so rarely. We tend to attempt a quiche or similar about once a year but we really must try and squeeze in a few more before next March. The...
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