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This is a very simple little garlic trick I picked up, to get your tomato sauce tasting like-a-ma-mumma used to make! It adds an amazing deep roasted garlic flavour.  It's very authentic.  When I tried this for the first time I suddenly realised it's what I'd been eating for years in restaurants.  Ok I'm a slow learner... RECIPE BELOW:

This is one of many variations of amazing sambal sauces.  It's great with rice dishes and is eaten all over indonesia. I was lucky enough to have another sambal made for me in Sri Lanka. It's called Seeni Sambal. It is an amazing sauce that they have with sticky diamond shaped rice as a traditional festive meal. It is sweet, sticky, spicy, strongly onion/cinammon and very addictive!  I found a recipe for it HERE , but haven't tested it as yet.  I can't wait. RECIPE BELOW:

This is easy, fresh, delicious, kid-friendly and it will keep in the fridge for a few days.  I'm including it because I'm going to make up a batch around Christmas time and don't want to forget about it. RECIPE BELOW:

I came across this cool Jane Grigson recipe. I made it last night with my daughter. It's extremely sweet, but really good. 140g plain flour 1 egg, seperated 400ml dry cider 100g caster sugar 4 apples Lemon juice Sunflower oil 1. For the batter, sift the flour into a bowl with a pinch of salt. Make a well in the middle & then slowly mix in the egg yolk and 100ml cider. Then gradually mix in another 150ml of the cider until it is a smooth batter. It's recommended to leave it to chill for an hour or more if you have time. 2. For the syrup, dissolve the sugar in the remaining 150ml of cider, bring to the boil & simmer for 5mins-10mins until golden. 3. Core the apples, leaving them whole. Then cut each into 5 doughnut shaped rings, about 1cm thick. Toss in some lemon juice to stop them going brown. They look better this way, but it really doesn't matter. Big rustic chunks would be just as tasty. 4. When ready to eat, heat up ...

This was good! Definitely one to repeat. This would be good to cook for friends. The spuds, cabbage, fish stock can all be pretty much prepared in advance & then finished within 10mins.