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Slow Cooker Beef Ragu – Recipe

Take your basic soffritto, add a nice cut of beef, and decent glug of red wine and we’re off to the races. Soffritto works as…

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Luxurious Risotto Milanese & Cod Loin – Recipe

Risotto Milanese is a wonderful, rich and exotic risotto with hints of saffron and buttery goodness. The problem is I always feel like it needs…

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Chicken Karahi Recipe – Authentic Pakistani Curry

A fragrant curry of Pakistani origin, Chicken Karahi is fresh with garlic and ginger, and plenty of tomatoes. Crucially though, there are no onions in…

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Cowboy Pie Recipe

Make no mistake, if like us at the practical gent you have children sometimes you just need to make something fun. There are hundreds of…

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Basic Egg Fried Rice Recipe – Without Day Old Rice

Egg fried rice is a lovely and simple thing. It’s the sort of thing your local Chinese restaurant can bash out in under 2 minutes.

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