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" Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
Sea
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Health
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" As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming. "
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" Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes. "
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" If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one. "
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" After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference. "
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" Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. "
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" Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock. "
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" I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result. "
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" The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes. "
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" Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home. "
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Home
" Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores. "
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World
Stores
" Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown. "
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Vegetarian
Food
Brown
" There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs. "
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Than
Nothing
" Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table. "
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Christmas
Refreshing
" Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity. "
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" My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. "
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Tongue
Sweet
" Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me. "
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Me
" I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices. "
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" I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly. "
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Generally
Life
" Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish. "
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Seeds
True
Way
" Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way. "
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" You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo. "
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" The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. "
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" Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. "
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" I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature. "
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" Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff. "
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" Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull. "
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Fish
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" One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another. "
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" Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae. "
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" A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings. "
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Lemon
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