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• Inside a top chef's home kitchen: Tom Aikens | A cook’s kitchen

  23-09-2017 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Grandad’s sweet jar and a photo of top chefs in a foodfight are among the curios in Michelin-star chef Tom Aikens’ kitchenWe didn’t do anything to this place when we arrived five years ago. We were moving house, having our first child, and I was reopening a restaurant after a big refurbishment – it’s possibly the worst three things you could be doing at the same time in the space of two weeks. The kitchen was a little bit smaller than we’d have liked, but it w
  
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• A beginner’s guide to pickling

  23-09-2017 11:59 via theguardian.com
  Grown too many vegetables? Sick of making chutney? There is an alternative…Your harvests may have been bountiful, but by now you must be bored with making chutney. It’s time to embrace brine. With the help of salt water, a process known as lacto-fermentation can give surplus veg a new lease of life.Fermented foods are manna for good gut flora, and fermented pickles are part of that package. These sorts of pickles are often best done in small batches, so they’re ideal for that
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan bunny chow

  23-09-2017 10:30 via theguardian.com
  A hollowed-out bread roll filled with curry: what’s not to like?Last year, I was lucky enough to have lunch with Madhur Jaffrey, and she was every bit as regal as you’d imagine. Among the things we spoke about, two subjects that struck a perfect chord were how brilliant Mac’s red lipsticks are and how fascinating the food of the Indian diaspora is.Indians have been leaving the motherland for years, but no matter how well they assimilate overseas, they never quite give up their
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s late-summer tomato recipes

  23-09-2017 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The tomato season is nearing its end for another year, so make the last of the summer vineThere’s no fruit or vegetable I associate more with summer than tomatoes. Sweet, small cherry tomatoes, mainly, eaten by the handful, as though they were grapes. So many of the dishes with which I’ve had summer flings over the years have had this little “love apple” at their heart. The rusk-like Cretan dakos biscuits I fell for a couple of years ago, for example, piled high with chop
  
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• Nigella Lawson: ‘Instagram can make a cook despair’

  23-09-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Food doesn’t have to be photogenic – and the best recipes are thrown together. The TV cook on how the internet has changed the way we eatExclusive recipes from Nigella Lawson’s new book
  I have always taken photographs of everything I eat. You could argue that holding up a meal with a cameraphone is marginally less embarrassing than in the days when you had to take your photos to the local chemist to be developed. I was always looked at a little oddly when they gave me back my h
  
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• Nigella Lawson: exclusive recipes from her new book, At My Table

  23-09-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Five easy recipes for the home cook, from chicken barley to slow-roast five-spice lamb with Chinese pancakes and walnut carrot cakeNigella Lawson on her home cooking revolution (and the trouble with Instagram)
  This thick, creamy pottage, somewhere cosily between a stew and a slightly soupy, sticky risotto, offers instant comfort. Not pretty to look at, but gratifyingly reassuring to eat. Continue reading...
  
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• I’ve been demoted – my daughter’s taken over the kitchen

  23-09-2017 07:45 via theguardian.com
  Her new vegan catering business has turned her into the chief cook in our household. But there are plenty of benefits for meOnce upon a time, my kitchen table was covered with glitter and pots of paint, my twin daughters having claimed the space for their A-level art work. Every time we wanted a meal, it involved pushing piles of paper and heaps of pencils out of the way so we could fit a plate on the table. With Lily and Megan now in their mid-20s, those days are long gone. Yet still I can&rsqu
  
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• Family life: My dad in the US Marines; Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun; jam sandwiches

  23-09-2017 07:45 via theguardian.com
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesDressed to the nines in crisply ironed Marine blues, my 21-year-old daddy dons the same butter-wouldn’t-melt grin I’d meet 12 years later. Born near the dawn of the Great Depression in the American deep south, he quickly learned he had to work hard and pinch a penny till it squealed if he was going to escape poverty. Perhaps his deep respect for the Marines, coupled with the need to provide a comfortable life for his young family
  
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• Carrots carrots carrots! Amid the biggest glut in 25 years, we ask chefs for their best recipes

  23-09-2017 00:32 via theguardian.com
  From the humble carrot cake to restaurant-quality spiced carrots with wattle crumb and yoghurt, here’s how to use up some of those extra vegiesBlame it on the Russians. Australian carrot growers are reporting a glut of the popular orange vegetables, with one supplier describing it as the biggest carrot oversupply in 25 years.Continue reading...
  
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