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My copy of River Cottage Every Day is here! Happy days are here again, as they say. It really is a great book. I really love the River Cottage books, since Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has a philosophy about food that I really can agree with.

There are many interesting recipes, a few of them are so exciting [...]

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A new day, with new delicious food. Today I made a roast tomato soup. There was a recipe for one in the River Cottage Cookbook, and I thought it looked interesting

While I had a slight hiccup with the rice that the recipe called for, and thus left it out, the flavor was great. [...]

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I have a new recipe for you today, a delicious lamb stew. Stews are perhaps the ultimate proof that investing time in your food gives excellent return on investment. This stew is, like I said, a lamb stew. Growing up, we didn’t eat a lot of lamb. In fact, I cannot recall having lamb at [...]

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I didn’t write anything yesterday, even though I ate. Yesterday I had a steak, with a baked potato and a cob of corn. I didn’t even take a picture, because it’s just too easy

Sadly, if you were looking for a new recipe today, you’re out of luck. I haven’t made dinner yet, but [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now, but it’s hard to find real chard here (any greens that aren’t baby greens or lettuce are difficult to find here, except for collard greens at christmas). When I saw that I was getting chard in this weeks box from Årstiderna I was of [...]

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After a mishap with the dishwasher, resulting in delaying my dinner for about an hour, my dinner is finally on the stove simmering. Today I’m having vegetable soup. I won’t bother posting a recipe for it, it’s just vegetables (in this case, leeks, potatoes, carrots and green beans) and some chicken broth. Pre-made chicken broth.

I [...]

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I have a lot of carrots right now, so I searched for a recipe which would allow me to use them up. I found a carrot casserole. I was a bit skeptical, but I decided to give it a go. In many ways, this wasn’t quite what I had expected.

For one thing, I cut myself [...]

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I also got a new cookbook for my birthday, The River Cottage Cookbook. Awesome book. I’ve actually pre-ordered a signed copy of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls next cookbook, River Cottage Every Day. Hopefully that will arrive early October.

On the right, you’ll see my copy of Good Eats: The Early Years. I think one can safely say that [...]

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In accordance with my new food blog policy, here’s a subject tangentially related to food. For my birthday, I got a new dinner table, and chairs. The table is a Bjursta from IKEA, and the chairs are Börjes. Also note the Good Eats poster in the background.

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I’ve been thinking lately about making this mostly a food blog. If so, this will mostly be shorter posts, with embedded recipes from Béchamel. There may be some other (mostly food related) posts as well, but mainly it will chronicle some of what I eat.

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