I'd planned the meal, bought the food, marked the page in the recipe book. My 20-year-old nephew is here for the weekend and I'm treating him to proper home food. He's training to be a boxer in between studying product design at Nottingham University. He's six foot tall and struts his well-toned and not-insubstantial muscles round my kitchen like a peacock. His mother is a chef, so not only was moules frites his favourite dish when he was six, but these days he knocks up shakshuka for his uni...
Prawns and Páramos
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Tam shares another of her super-creative food and and wine matches.
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