Chicken & Soup: 3 Ways.

Sometimes, I make up foods in my head. I sit in a restaurant and think - man, if they'd put x and that y together, it would be a perfect dish. I'm not sure what it was last night, but I decided to bring to life one of my imaginations, and that was chicken flavoured rice with chicken. Okay, does that sound gross? Bare with me.  1....

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Pot au Feu? Pot au Yu!

Let's just say that French isn't a forte despite my infinite love of French food. Pot au feu is a dish my mom taught me in the haste before a child leaves for university, when it hits a mother that said child might literally starve to death from not knowing how to operate the microwave. Super easy, warm and great for when you have a cold....

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Easter Sunday Roast by Ben

On our first national holiday in our flat together, Ben and I decided to do a proper roast. Despite our hours of drooling over cooking shows every weekend, we hadn't actually cooked one together in our flat. In light of the fact that in a few weeks we were meant to be cooking a roast for some of his family (by 'we', I mean 'he'), when I...

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Hotel Chocolat's Roast + Conch

Last Easter Sunday, I lay on the couch "watching" Mary Poppins - if "watching" can constitute semi-conscious chocolate overdose-induced blank stares at the screen. This year, I find myself munching on a pack of Quavers, after I had a pre-Easter fix of chocolate at the Roast + Conch in Covent Garden yesterday. The Roast + Conch is a chocolate...

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