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Parma ham, rocket, and red onion pizza

04/12/2014 By Richard Bewley 5 Comments

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Some time ago, I regularly used to buy ready prepared spatchcock Poussin from Gressingham, the remarkable duck people (in their own words). Well, what is remarkable about poussin is that they are, em, not a duck – but a butcher’s term for young chicken. Poussin are typically a breed that is naturally slow-growing, meaning that…

The humble bagel. Or is it, beigel?. The roll with a hole. That slightly chewy bread which makes a great snack, brunch (or whenever) used to be a mystery to me, and something so technically demanding I never even bothered to research the method. It is not at all that I am adverse trying out…

I have just been finishing off at work for lunch the remains of the smoked salmon, dill, and red onion omelette I made on Sunday. It is a good thing too, as I needed to be reminded of some of the ingredients I had used in order to write this up. My cooking approach is…

I am sure that I have stated somewhere before that if it wasn’t for the occasional carnivorous pleasure gained from a really good steak, I would gladly follow a Pescatarian lifestyle. I genuinely love all those fishy critters which originate from what most of mother earth is covered in and for the time-deprived (something I…