Category: Beans & Pulses

Puy Lentils with Tomatoes, Red Onion, Herbs & Balsamic

January 21, 2012.Reading time 5 minutes.

I know that I’m guilty of sometimes turning my nose up at short cuts, criticising the inglorious stock cube for instance, but sometimes short cuts have their place and really will do as well. I couldn’t buy a box of dried puy lentils one day in the supermarket so settled – rather uncertainly, it has to […]

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Quick Lunch: Butter Bean Dip & Crudites

November 30, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

Now I know I’ve been a bit of a food snob at times in these blog pages, for instance when it comes to tins and jars and stock cubes. But beans on toast, as a light lunch or supper, just isn’t something I ever do. I do, however, do bean dips quite often and really […]

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