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Boeuf en Daube for The Care to Cook Recipe Challenge
What dish would you cook to welcome someone into your home? This is the question posed in the Care to Cook Recipe Challenge I’m entering, a competition held by Vanesther at one of my favourite family...
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A Glut of Tomatoes Pasta Sauces!
It’s the war of the tomatoes this week (and month) at Chez Foti, there’s a daily battle between myself and the ridiculously extravagant sixty three tomato plants I’ve somehow ended up with (an over...
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One Pot Ratatouille
Baby Foods & Weaning 7-9 Months plus, Toddlers & Small Children, Older Kids, Grown Ups We love ratatouille at Chez Foti, and it’s a regular feature on our dinner table throughout the summer....
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Fig, Goats Cheese & Red Onion Tarts
We’re in the midst of fig season here in France and I’m loving it. Without a doubt they’re one of my favourite fruits and as we’re relative newbies here only in our second fig season they still feel...
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Homemade Sun (aka Oven) Dried Tomatoes!
As regular readers will know it’s been a tomatoey summer at Chez Foti, and I have to admit my interest is now waining slightly. Though my 68 plants (beyond ridiculous I know, but down to an...
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Butternut, Feta and Red Onion Tart with Thyme
I’m loving the Butternut and Pumpkin season at Chez Foti. To be honest it’s making a welcome change from all those tomatoes of the summer, not that they’ve completely finished yet!. And it’s been lots...
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Roasted Wild Mushroom Pizza
There’s been a good deal of wild mushroom foraging recently at Chez Foti. Magnificent Parasol Mushrooms have been popping up literally all over our garden the last couple of weeks and I’ve been on a...
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The best Garlic Bread, and a Chorizo, Potato and Rosemary Pizza
It’s most definitely pizza weather here at Chez Foti. We’ve had seemingly ceaseless rain, gales and miserable cold for way too long now, since New Year’s Day to be exact. And it’s getting kind of...
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Roasted Mushroom Pearl Barley Risotto
Pearl barley risottos seem all the rage of late and it was really about time I got around to trying my hand at one. I had fully intended on making Anneli’s (of the fabulously inspiring Delicieux blog)...
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Chicken, Asparagus and New Potato Traybake
Why oh why it’s taken me so long to discover the wonderous simplicity of savory traybakes is a mystery?. An impressively tasty meal with minimum prep, mess or fuss that the whole family can enjoy. And...
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Roasted Tomato and Feta Risotto
This was actually a fabulously tasty dinner borne out a random fridge emptying operation!. You know those times when there doesn’t appear to be anything too interesting and you rustle up what there is...
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