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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

