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An Obsession With Clay

Posted in In My Kitchen on June 22, 2014| 69 Comments »

It’s probably fair to say that I’m a wee bit obsessed with clay cookware. It all started five years ago when I bought my first Römertopf baker.  A year or so later, we gave away all our Le Creuset enameled cast iron (which I’d come to loathe by that time) and switched to the Emile […]

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Römertopf Asian Beef Short Ribs

Posted in Recipes on June 26, 2016| 19 Comments »

Last month, the lovely Yiota from Dulwich Hill Gourmet Meats gave me her recipe for beef short ribs. It sounded amazing, with the ribs slow cooking in a low oven for 8 – 10 hours. Here’s her version, in case you’d like to try it… . . . . . As usual, I was in a rush. So […]

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Römertopf Beef and Barley Stoup

Posted in Recipes on July 12, 2015| 24 Comments »

At the Artisan Markets a few weeks go, I had a cup of the most delicious beef and barley soup. The following week I found myself craving the taste again, but I had a busy morning planned and didn’t have time to fuss over a pot on the stove. So I pulled out my Römertopfs and let […]

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Stretching the Free Range Dollar

Posted in Recipes on August 19, 2014| 67 Comments »

This started out as a post about crackling cornbread muffins. But I found I needed to explain why there was crackling in the first place, which then led back to our efforts to squeeze every last bit of goodness out of our pork hocks. I ended up with a very different (and much longer) post […]

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Actively Seeking Enthusiasms

Posted in Musings on August 5, 2014| 117 Comments »

. . . . . Many years ago, when the boys were little, they loved watching the Wind in the Willows television series. Pete and I did too – the humour was dry and subtly tongue-in-cheek, with priceless lines like…“Badger, if I stop hammering, Toad won’t have a gondola..” In one scene, Toad’s eyes glaze […]

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