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Nigel Slater’s recipes for ricotta cake, and for roast tomatoes with thyme and garlic toasts

03-07-2022 11:30 via theguardian.com

Ricotta brings a gentle touch to cakes and summer lunchCool, milky and calm, fresh ricotta is the perfect cheese for a summer afternoon. Chalk white and soft as snow, it is the mildest of the fresh cheeses. Made from whey, it is not quite milk, not quite cheese. The sort you can buy in tubs from the supermarkets will be rather firm, but the best is the softest and freshest that you can find in Italian grocers and specialist cheese shops. It will usually come with tiny indentations from the mould

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Off-the-scale scrumptuous caramels

03-07-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com

Who knew that they could be quite this good?‘Have you tried…’ my Suffolk friend Naomi asked, eyes a-glisten, ‘honey salted caramels by B Chocolates?’ No, I said, at once excited to try a new thing and at twice ashamed I’d never heard of them. ‘They are the best caramels I’ve ever tasted,’ said Naomi.I was mildly curious, not least because people often tell me something is the best they’ve ever tasted. But something about how earnest Na

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Off-the-scale scrumptious caramels

03-07-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com

Who knew that they could be quite this good?‘Have you tried…’ my Suffolk friend Naomi asked, eyes a-glisten, ‘honey salted caramels by B Chocolates?’ No, I said, at once excited to try a new thing and at twice ashamed I’d never heard of them. ‘They are the best caramels I’ve ever tasted,’ said Naomi.I was mildly curious, not least because people often tell me something is the best they’ve ever tasted. But something about how earnest Na

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The best new wine online

03-07-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com

From Australia to Bordeaux, discover delicious drops from two of the internet’s biggest wine merchantsRoc Primeur Bordeaux, France 2021 (£13.99, or £11.99 as part of a mixed case of 12, Laithwaites) For obvious reasons, the pandemic was a busy time for wine online, with sales by some of the bigger players rising by as much as 300% during the various lockdowns. If many of us have now gone back to pre-pandemic ways of buying wine, it seems plenty have stuck with their online habi

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Note Dublin: ‘Bright-eyed enthusiasm’ – restaurant review

03-07-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com

Dublin’s restaurant scene is hard to navigate, but at Note you’ll definitely be leaving on a highNote Dublin, 26 Fenian Street, Dublin D02 FX09. Snacks and small plates €4-€13, larger plates €17-€32, desserts €7-€9, wines from €30One of the things I like about going to restaurants is the opportunity to choose stuff: not just the venue, or the time you’ll visit, but the things you’re going to eat once you get there. Early on in my search

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