Food & Drink
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Roast rib of beef
(Serves 4 to 6) 1 hourA wing rib joint of 2 ribs, weighing about 2 kilosFreshly ground black pepperFlour Have the chine bone cut through and separated from the rib, but not removed. Season the meat with pepper, and dust the fat side with flour.
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Mocha chocolate pots
(Serves 6) 200 ml double cream200 g chocolate2-3 tbsps coffee liqueur or espresso coffee Scald the cream and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has melted, then beat in the liqueur. Spoon into small ramekins, or into espresso...
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Yorkshire pudding
45 minutes, concurrently with the roast beef 2 eggs300 ml semi-skimmed milk175 g plain flour½ tsp salt2 tbsps dripping from the roasting pan Beat the egg with the milk. Gradually beat in the flour and the salt until you have smooth batter, and then...
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Chocofest at Bay Street
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the theme of this year’s chocolate feast being held at Bay Street Complex in St George’s Bay, St Julian’s, from next Saturday to April 7. Visitors can enjoy a range of stalls, entertainment and displays every day...
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Fine Italian biscuits
Quintano Foods Limited recently added a new product to its portfolio – Lazzaroni, a well-known Italian brand with more than 100 years’ experience in top-quality pastry and biscuits. Lazzaroni biscuits include classic Petit Beurre biscuits, Oswego...
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Wines that are always on cue
Two popular household wine brands, which have been produced in Malta for over 40 years, have for the very first time sponsored a competition, The Malta Pool Association. In the new, appropriately titled Green & Red Label Easter Cup competition,...
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Synthetic resveratrol may slow down ageing
Numerous studies and reports over the last decade have linked the benefits of resveratrol, a compound found naturally in red wine and other foods like berries and peanuts, with a variety of health issues. Now, scientists are testing synthetic forms...
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Fanciful flagging
Ed eats Parapett125, St George’s RoadSt Julian’sTel: 2135 3394 Food: 7/10Service: 7/10Ambience: 8/10Value: 7/10Overall: 7/10 I was talking to my mum the other day. Actually, I was listening. She does most of the talking. She told me she was waiting...
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Treasure Ireland
Today is St Patrick’s Day, which means that anyone with the merest drop of Irish blood in their veins (or just a fondness for Guinness) will be partying and celebrating. Bars will be full of silly green hats and paper shamrocks, drinkers awash with...
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St Paddy’s pies
(Serves 4) 1 kg stewing steak2 tbsps sunflower oil1 large onion, chopped2 carrots, peeled and diced250 ml GuinnessBeef stockSalt and pepperSmall bunch fresh thyme1 tbsp butter mixed with 1 tbsp flour300 g self-raising flour1 tsp baking powder120 g...
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Dublin lawyer
(Serves 4) If you’re feeling particularly rich, use the meat from a freshly cooked lobster. If not, large prawns will do nicely. 36 large headless tiger prawns, defrosted if frozen50 g butter3 tbsps Irish whisky100 ml creamLemon juiceSalt and...
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Irish soda bread
(Serves 4) 1 tbsp lemon juice230 ml milk (not skimmed)300 g self-raising flour½ tsp bicarbonate of soda1 tsp salt60 g butter Stir the lemon juice into the milk and leave it to stand for five minutes. Preheat the oven to 200ºC. Sift the flour, bicarb...
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Apple pancakes with Irish cream sauce
(Serves 4) This amount of batter will probably make double the amount of pancakes you need, but if you interleave the extra ones with greaseproof, then wrap them in clingfilm, they’ll keep in the fridge for a couple of days or in the freezer for a...
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Lawson pays homage to Italy in new cookbook
British television celebrity and best-selling cookbook author Nigella Lawson recalls that when the other girls wanted to be French, she wanted to be Italian. “As a teenager, what drew me was the combination of familial warmth and glamour that was...
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Austria 2012 vintage: small, but high quality
Austria’s frost-affected 2012 vintage promises good-quality wines across the board – but supplies of the country’s flagship Gruner Veltliner are much reduced. According to the Austrian Wine Marketing Board (AWMB), the harvest produced 2.15 million...
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New wine tanks for Delicata
Early on Wednesday morning, seven 40-foot containers queued up at the Delicata winery on the Paola waterfront to unload their cargo of new state-of-the-art wine tanks imported from Italy. The containers were packed with 24 temperature-controlled...
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Milk Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Yields about three dozen Ingredientsone-and-a-quarter cups all-purpose flourhalf a teaspoon baking powderhalf a teaspoon baking sodahalf a teaspoon ground cinnamonone-fourth of a teaspoon salt12 tablespoons butter or margarinethree-quarters of a cup...
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Ending the campaign
Ed eats Fresco’sTower RoadSliemaTel: 2734 4763 Food: 7/10Service: 8/10Ambience: 6/10Value: 7/10Overall: 7.5/10 This is another Sunday that fills me with confidence that the restaurant review, quietly hidden within a section about travel and food,...
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Stuffed squid
(Serves 4) This is based on a traditional Portuguese dish, Lulas recheadas, in which the squid are stuffed with rice, but try them with quinoa. 16 fresh squid, about 12 to 14 cm long4 tbsps extra virgin olive oil1 onion, peeled and finely chopped3...
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Wheat-free for a while
The thought of planning meals without wheat can be daunting. No toasted ħobża to dip in olive oil for breakfast, no sandwiches in the packed lunch, no pasta for supper, no baguette with the soup, no bun with the burger? But it is not that difficult,...
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