Sally Vincent’s Diary of Food and Life on a Devon Farm.
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Chicken with Garlic, Chorizo and Fennel
Our local drama group, The Dit’sum Players, came to lunch recently, some twenty two of us in all squashed up in our dining room. I cooked a huge dish of chicken with shallots, fennel, celeriac, pancetta, chorizo, potatoes, olives and whole cloves of garlic; a kind of Chicken Orvieto with Spanish overtones. It was delicious! …
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Lamb Tagine with Chick Peas and Apricots
Last week a friend gave a big birthday party and asked several of us to cook a Lamb Tagine with Chick Peas and Apricots. Our Whiteface lamb was just right for the recipe. To feed 8 people cut up a kilo of lamb from a shoulder into large cubes removing any fat or sinew. Put…
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Rain, rain, rain…..
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November Blues
Carol Trewin My friend and food editor of The Western Morning News, Carol Trewin, finally lost her fight with leukaemia on October14th. We met on the committee of the Devon Slow Food Convivia some years ago and soon realised we simply could not bore each other, however hard we tried, with our delight in all…
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The Arrival of Mr Porter
Year after year the seasons roll reliably along just as they always have since time began, moving in such timeless momentum we hardly notice their passing. Spring blends into summer, summer slides into autumn and suddenly we wake up and realise that winter is breaking over us again. It all feels so predictable and yet…
