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Simple Beef Carpaccio

I had beef carpaccio when I went to Italy once. It was really good and I wondered exactly what it was. From memory, I thought I was very thin raw beef with lemon juice on, served with rocket and parmesan. I looked up the recipe and that’s what it was, so score one for memory.
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Recipe posted on May 14th 2007 at 20:29 | TrackBack URL


Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie

I needed to cook something for my friends and my girlfriend. Unfortunately, she is vegetarian and they really aren’t!

A good replacement for meat is Quorn, a retextured mushroom protein, but I decided to be a bit more adventurous and use something based on beans and lentils. I used green lentils and haricot beans, but this recipe would work for most types of lentil and bean. After a little thought, I decided to adapt Shepherd’s Pie to be more vegetarian.

Amazingly, they all enjoyed it. […]

Recipe posted on May 1st 2007 at 18:00 | TrackBack URL