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Cakes are one of those areas where even quite proficient cooks are reluctant to improvise. I guess this is the result of the mania for measu...

Chicken soup or stew with chickpeas is central to Spanish food. The most famous version is the cocido madrileño (Madrid stew) which is a chi...

Potato wedges!? This was inspired (if that's the right word) by a menu Gemma was translating into Spanish. It read like a spoof of every...

Chick pea-based hummus so dominates the dip scene that we often forget that other pulses make good dips or purees, too, as does aubergine. I...

Apparently British family doctors have what they refer to as 'heartsink patients' - the ones who make your heart sink when they walk...

Gemma bought a couple of ripe pineapples the other day and they were threatening to go belly-up, so I needed to do something with them and f...

It's been chucking it down non-stop today (as if someone had turned a shower on over Cadiz), so we've had a pyjama day. We were plan...