Main meals
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Minestrone soup
This is a fabulous recipe. It’s packed full of goodness and should keep you healthy and slim (ish) during the winter months. Let’s start with the ingredients. 1. A few cloves of garlic: 2. A medium brown onion: 3. Bacon (you’ll have to visualise this one!). 4. Crushed or diced tomatoes (I prefer diced but Continue reading
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Beef casserole
Retrokitchen – after quite some delay – is upping the ante ever so slightly today. This dish differs from the previous recipes at a number of levels. First, it is seasonally specific, being far better enjoyed in the colder months. Second, it takes more time than the other recipes, ie well over an hour. Lastly, Continue reading
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Chicken cacciatore
This dish is such an oldie and so delicious. The best part about it is that people will think it involves a modicum of effort. But there’s a cheat at the heart of this recipe (which you needn’t reveal to your diners) which makes it one of the easiest recipes in the Retrokitchen. It’s been Continue reading
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Apricot chicken
This dish is such a classic and shamefully easy. It oozes 1970s appeal. It’s as if not only 1970s interiors were orange – so was the food! I wouldn’t call apricot chicken devastatingly handsome. But it’s straightforward and surprisingly tasty. The brats will gobble it down. By now, I trust you know which ingredient I’ll Continue reading
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