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Food
Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!
The many names of the pigeon pea…
Toor dahl is my new favourite lentil – or is it a legume, or is it a pea… or is a pea a legume? I hastily looked it up and found it has so many other names: pigeon pea kardis gandule bean tropical green pea kadios Congo pea gungo pea gunga pea fio-fio mgbụmgbụ no-eye […]
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Strange looking but delicious soup!
It looks as if I’ve been mean with the serving, but it was rather a large bowl! Onion and dill soup with cumin, and with fried onions and pine nuts… it was really tasty (I added some chilli sauce in my bowl!)
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Lois Elsden 