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Floating meringues on vanilla sauce

2:00pm Friday 27th August 2010

Meringue 1 vanilla pod (split)

Jellied brisket of beef with Wylam Brewery ale

3:36pm Friday 20th August 2010

THIS recipe shows how a simple and cheap cut like brisket can be used to produce something that, if you received it in some posh good restaurant in rural France, you’d be proclaiming it a new-found delicacy.

Pork fillet, braised pigs’ cheek, and pak choi

2:54pm Friday 13th August 2010

Serves six Braised pigs’ cheeks

Blind Scouse with herb dumplings

2:06pm Friday 6th August 2010

WHEN writing menus, you have to be careful not to put the diners off with the descriptions you use. I guess that’s why the flesh of a pig is referred to as pork.

Pan-fried scallops with Parma ham, asparagus and salsa

2:13pm Friday 30th July 2010

ASIAN cooking, at its best, can be pretty hard to beat. People think it’s quite difficult to do, and that’s a misconception.

Smoked salmon with butterbean humous

2:39pm Friday 23rd July 2010

This stunningly-simple anglophile version of the Middle Eastern classic dip uses butterbeans rather than chickpeas as its principal ingredient.

Lemon meringue, raspberry jelly, lemon curd and basil sorbet

3:28pm Friday 16th July 2010

Meringue 170g caster sugar

Roast pork salad with crackling

2:36pm Friday 9th July 2010

IT’S hardly likely that you’d deliberately roast a joint of pork specifically to make this salad. But, assuming there’s a little left over from the Sunday roast, here’s a quick and easy way to use it in a salad.

Rib-eye bruschetta with beetroot and lemon mayonnaise

3:24pm Friday 2nd July 2010

MARINATED meat, colourful salads, and adventurous dressings are all very well – but they’re useless if you haven’t got a good barbecue spot.

Smoked haddock and egg pie with cheesy topping

3:27pm Friday 25th June 2010

ALWAYS a favourite on our menu, we find fish pie in any form is popular – even to those who profess not to like fish.