Spring, Autumn, Winter, Summer, main, soup, Russian, Ukranian Antony Spring, Autumn, Winter, Summer, main, soup, Russian, Ukranian Antony

Big beefy borscht

A real meal-in-a-bowl, you can easy scale this recipe up, increasing everything by a half or even doubling it. As the soup freezes well, you can then have plenty to pull out for an easy meal when time runs short to cook dinner. We like roasting our beets separately, adding them to the soup near the end of cooking...

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Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, meatballs, pork, main Antony Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, meatballs, pork, main Antony

Pork and parmesan meatballs in cider with roast apples

We never met a meatball we didn’t like, We l-o-v-e meatballs. The global meatball repertoire is huge; think polpette (Italy), kofte (Turkey), keftedes (Greece), albondigas (Spain), bakso (Indonesia), bun cha (Vietnam), frikadeller (Germany, Scandinavia and Poland), bitterballen (Netherlands) and the like…

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Autumn, Winter, breakfast, brunch, pork, main, side dish Antony Autumn, Winter, breakfast, brunch, pork, main, side dish Antony

Baked beans with crunchy bacon crust

We genuinely love cooking with lentils, chickpeas, beans et al. They’re not only delish, they’re great contenders for filling, budget-friendly, delish dinners that are perfect for coping with the exhausting, ever-increasing cost of living spikes. We figured it was worth resurrecting the concept of home-made baked beans; yeha they’re cheap to buy…

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