Monthly Archives: July 2008

How To Make Pastry

You can line a flan dish with the pastry and bake it blind, you do this by putting a piece of cooking paper on to the base of the pastry and then covering the paper with baking beans or dried uncooked rice, add just enough to weight down the pastry so it doesn’t ‘rise’ up [...]

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Broccoli & Pasta Salad.

I love the colors in this salad, the richness of the green against the creaminess of the pasta.
And, of course, it tastes great, I have a passion for sautéed broccoli with fresh lime juice any day, so the citrus zing to this salad is right up my street.
What you will need:
300g Dried Pasta shapes.
1 head [...]

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Chicken Fattoush.

This is a simple Arab vegetarian salad and is a meal in itself. I first had this when I was sharing a flat with a Lebanese Doctor, I still think of those days when I eat my fattoush.
The delicate flavours of each ingredient complementing each other really makes it delightful on the tongue..
What you will [...]

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