Main meals
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Chilli con carne
I start to crave this recipe if I haven’t had it in a while. It’s one of the cheapest and easiest in the Retro Kitchen but such a crowd pleaser. People will think you can actually cook! Kids gobble it down – although you may want to use less chilli when serving the little darlings.… Continue reading
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Chicken in pastry with honey red sauce
I love this recipe. It’s so darn easy and tastes great. Also there’s something a bit magic about creating pies. It’s the crisp, golden structure which makes people think you’re a genuinely talented cook. Little do they know…. Let’s start with that long-standing drug – alcohol, in prime 1970s form: They’re not my hands, incidentally.… Continue reading
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Spaghetti bolognese
I love this recipe. I’ve had spag bol everywhere from takeaway joints to seemingly swish ristorantes. I don’t recall anything as tasty as this. Of course, it’s about as Italian as Domino’s, but a whole lot nicer. I daresay it’s an English recipe from when old Mum was there in the 1960s. Well, put it this way, I… Continue reading
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Mum’s 40 recipes from the 1970s
Spaghetti bolognaise Chicken in pastry with honey red sauce Chilli con carne Apricot chicken Chicken cacciatore Beef stroganoff Cornish pasties Crepes Chicken ‘n’ cheese sauce Beef casserole Veal Marsala Veal paprika Carpet bag steak Beef Wellington Minestrone soup Sweet and sour pork Sultana curry Chicken curry with turmeric rice Chicken with curried apricot sauce Chicken… Continue reading
