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How to make pancetta

November 17, 2010 Food & drink
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I’ve skirted around the edges of this recipe for a while now. It’s not really a recipe, as such…it’s more of a chemistry experiment that involves taking something a bit bland and mediocre, adding some other stuff to it and miraculously transforming it into something that’s way better than the sum of its parts. It’s [...]

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Pasta carbonara, with pancetta, peas and sage

October 8, 2010 Food & drink
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As I suspect plenty of people do, I buy massive bags of pasta from the supermarket. Most of it gets cooked quickly and eaten even more quickly when we arrive home either late or starving. Pasta often gets degraded to a ‘there’s not enough time to cook anything’ convenience food, but that really doesn’t do [...]

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chicken breasts saltimbocca style (saltimbocca di petti di pollo)

October 13, 2008 Food & drink
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This recipe comes to me via a convoluted path. It’s a Marcella Hazan recipe, posted on Thursday Night Smackdown by Claudia, the blogger behind Cook Eat FRET. Wherever it came from, it’s a magnificent recipe. This is really just an old Italian way of cooking a chicken breast stuffed with some pancetta and sage, but [...]

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