Now that I am actively trying to eat breakfast in the morning I am forcibly reminded that January and February is Seville Orange Season. It may be an English thing, but no marmalade is quite the same as that lovingly made from these delicious Spanish Oranges. They have just the right level [...]

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Apples are the perfect panacea, they refresh you when you are thirsty, take the edge off when you need a snack and make you feel better when you are ill. One of my favourite ways to cook and serve them stems back to my childhood when my mom would peel and slice them, and [...]

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My mother is the original Kitchen Alchemist. At least she is to me. A complete original, it is in her kitchen, where I learned to cook, that I absorbed her alchemical approach to cooking. The combination of magic and science is indivisible in her world and I never realised until I was in [...]

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I use my little individual sized Le Creuset pans.  Perfect for one portion.  Feel free to use a bigger pan for more people, or several little pans.

 Start with  several strips of organic streaky bacon.  The fat from the bacon will automatically lubricate the pan for the rest of the ingredients.
Once the bacon is opaque, add [...]

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