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Tea overlooking the Brontë sisters’ beloved moors, steam trains and borș...

Halloween borsch? With witches’ noses I abandoned Keighley library yesterday, visiting my friend Lou who lives with her family in a lovely old farmhouse overlooking the moors close to the Brontë...

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A bit of Romania in Yorkshire – minus chocolate cakes

Daniel’s cafe/bistro Ilkley is not run by Daniel but by his daughter Miruna and her husband. The name is a tribute to Miruna’s father who runs a hotel in our other favourite place, the Romanian...

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Stuffed mushrooms –‘vegetarian’

This is a very simple recipe but my wife has said it is the best ‘vegetarian’ food she’s ever tasted. We are not vegetarian but eat ‘without meat’ twice a week. The recipe isn’t truly ‘vegetarian’...

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Kaylettes – a good accompaniment to prawns

I like the taste of kale but have never liked the texture, the stalks have been too tough for me to enjoy it. I like brussel sprouts as I cook them, and not just at Christmas – halved and steamed for...

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Christmas simplified

First Christmas (part) with Petronela, 20 years ago. Just work colleagues then, as was Ana Maria on my other side – still a good friend We are just two – my wife Petronela and me – for Christmas since...

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Another varied simple ‘vegetarian’ dish

Picture from Chefclub video A surprising number of bloggers new to me liked my variation on a recipe for stuffed mushrooms (posted 1 Dec ‘18) so I decided to post this one. First and foremost it was...

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Amazing weather – disastrous in Romania

I have never seen Romania so green, so beautiful, but it is a beauty only skin deep. Beneath the surface disasters are happening. We left Yorkshire with an extraordinary summer, weeks of sunshine with...

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Soda bread which is good the next day!

I didn’t expect to be writing a post about soda bread so I didn’t take a picture of the loaf. Only today, when I found that it was delicious when a day old I decided to post, by which time this was all...

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The nineteenth of the nineteenth makes nineteen Christmases, in mid-summer

The nineteenth day of July in the nineteenth year of the millennium beginning in 2000, a special day – our nineteenth wedding anniversary. The final stage for this excellent starter, flambe with Pernod...

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I’m back – a plug for Scala Radio, brilliant

Sorry (again) for the recent silence. I’ve been a bit poorly (again). A bit of explanation at the end of this post. I have a somewhat eclectic taste in music but I wouldn’t have thought at my advanced...

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