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LLG Food

LLG Cooks: Cauliflower Purée for Christmas Day Lunch

December 23, 2011 LLG Food

I first published this recipe for cauliflower purée back at Easter 2010. To my utter surprise, it has become not only the most popular recipe in my archive, but has remained in the top three search terms to the blog in 2011. I was thinking of it this morning, as it is currently the number […]

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LLG Cooks. Recipe Friday: Avocado on Toast

December 22, 2011 LLG Food

My thoughts are already leaping past Christmas Day’s inevitable over-indulgence at the lunch table and onto Boxing Day (the 26^th is a public holiday in the UK, once known as the day where servants were given their Christmas ‘box’ by grateful employers). However strong my resolutions, I always eat too much on the 25^th. There […]

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LLG Cooks: Easy Mushroom Soup

December 19, 2011 LLG Food

Oh this is so so so so easy that even if you burn toast, I defy you to screw this up. I knocked this up for lunch for me & Katie in 15 minutes. And what’s more it’s completely, utterly gloriously delicious. AND — it tastes just as good, maybe even better if you use […]

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LLG Books: Cook books for Christmas

December 17, 2011 Books & writers

I may be filling up my Kindle with vintage Georgette Heyer and the Game of Thrones series, but I am still collecting cookery books like there’s no tomorrow. In the same way that I am starting to find reading newspapers online unsatisfactory, I don’t want to read cookbooks online either.

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LLG Cooks: Winter Warming Recipes

December 11, 2011 LLG Food

I think it’s time for my annual warming recipe digest, as I all I want to do right now is shovel bowls of hearty beans, lovely internal central heating soups, and plates of cheesy carbs. So here are some of the recipes I’ve posted on LLG that fall into those categories over the past few […]

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LLG Food: Elanthy Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil

December 10, 2011 LLG Food

As we are approaching Christmas I thought this would be a good time to run some posts about some of the things I use everyday that I think are brilliant, and could make fabulous presents. My mother has bought 3litre cans of Elanthy Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil for years and, because they do special […]

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Recipe Friday: LLG Cooks Fried Gnocchi with Mozzarella & Cherry Tomatoes

December 2, 2011 LLG Food

Back in the summer I came up with a Ready, Steady, Cook dish of fried gnocchi with roasted tomatoes & field mushrooms when we were eating up the contents of my mother’s fridge, shortly before she moved house. This time around, I just needed carbs, cheese & calories, owing to a slightly too enthusiastic evening […]

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LLG Travels: Wafels & Dinges Food Truck, New York

November 26, 2011 LLG Food

YUM YUM YUM. I do wish London had food trucks in the way Manhattan has them. When I first moved to New York in 2007, they were just starting to gain in popularity, but now there’s a regular proliferation of them. I’m not talking about those street corner Halal guys, but full on trucks that […]

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LLG Travels: News Café, Ocean Drive, South Beach Miami

November 19, 2011 LLG Food

Some people might argue that the News Café on Miami’s Ocean Drive is a bit of a cliché, but I say you can’t visit Miami without breakfast at this South Beach institution. Over twenty years old, and open twenty-four hours a day, it’s always packed, serves up great breakfasts, burgers and snack-ettes and provides excellent […]

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Recipe Friday: LLG Cooks lentil dahl with caramelised onions & quinoa

November 18, 2011 LLG Food

Winter warming food…mmm…the only drawback is that so much of it comes with lashings of cheese and cream. Whilst deeelicious, you may as well just spread those dishes on your thighs and be done with it. Which is where the lovely lentil comes in: it’s a superfood, with 30% of its calories coming from protein, […]