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Apple Tart
Ingredients For the pastry 250g/9oz plain flour pinch sea salt 125g/4oz unsalted butter, diced, at room temperature 1 tsp cold water 1 medium free-range egg For the filling 15g/½oz unsalted butter ½ tbsp lemon juice…
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Load Balanced WordPress
We run two load balanced servers that host our organisation’s public websites and we recently switched to WordPress having used a static site before this. Whilst WordPress offers significant gains in flexibility and functionality, we…
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3D TV.. the future?
Theres a lot of hubbub about 3DTV at the moment – Sony are pinning their hopes on 3D TV as the product that will increase their market share in a market that is getting increasingly…
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Goat’s cheese and red pepper tart
Ingredients 3 garlic cloves, unpeeled 3 red peppers, halved 1 tbsp light muscovado sugar 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 75ml Cabernet Sauvignon red wine 1 tbsp olive oil 2 small red onions, thinly sliced 2 x…
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Spiced vegetable curry
Ingredients: 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 onion, thinly sliced 1 garlic clove, crushed 5 tbsp mild curry paste 400ml can coconut milk 150ml vegetable stock 125g fine green beans, trimmed 1 large sweet potato, cut…
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Tomato and goat’s cheese tarts
Ingredients: 375g packet ready-rolled puff pastry Plain flour, for dusting 150g goat’s cheese 250g punnet vine cherry or pomodorino tomatoes, halved 1 egg, beaten with a little water Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling Large sprigs…
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Sweet Cherry Tomato and Sausage Bake
Ingredients 2kg cherry tomatoes 2 sprigs of thyme, rosemary and bay (each) 1 tablespoon of dried oregano 3 cloves of chopped garlic Good-quality Cumberland or coarse Italian pork sausage (12) Extra virgin olive oil Balsamic…
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Chilli-Con-Carne in a rush
A great quick Chilli recipe – if you have time, use the Chilli Deluxe recipe! Ingredients: 1 tin kidney beans, drained 1 tin chopped tomatoes. If you can throw in some whole tomatoes that have…
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Chilli-Con-Carne Deluxe
The Ingredients: 1 large onion or 2 banana shallots, chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 red chilli deseeded or keep half with seeds if you like it spicy 2 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked…
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