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Pea & Garlic Soup Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food  Buy the book here  Review: Wow! Fab! 5 STARS all the way!! So tasty and very easy to make. So it would appear that Nigel is friends with Nigella and he has credited her for this recipe in his book. I went through my Nigella collection but can't seem to find this recipe in the books that I have so it must be one she has personally given to him.  It didn't take long at all to make this (if you exclude the hour roasting the garlic). I think I can safely say that both my husband and I are going to stink of garlic tomorrow. I really like that this soup just serves 2 so you can double up if more is needed. Honestly, when you look at this soup in the dish (creamy sage green kind of colour), you kind of think, what on earth is this? My husband said it smelled like mushy peas when he walked in the kitchen tonight, but I personally thought it smelled more of garlic, but then I have sat watching TV with roasting

Pasta with Spicy Sausage, Basil & Mustard Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food  Buy the book here  Review: This recipe had a slight disaster but I think I recovered it well by improvising.  This is how it started, I placed my Asda shopping order on Sunday as usual and it was due to arrive today between 2-4pm. I thought myself VERY lucky (pride comes before a fall...) because Asda do a Finest range of Pork and Chilli sausages (I don't have an Italian Deli near me, so I figured these would be the best substitute - also my local butchers is shut on Mondays).  The shopping arrived and lo and behold! What item do you think they didn't have in stock...yep, you guessed it...the pork and chilli sausages! They sent me Cumberland as the substitute. Oh no! What do I do? No time to go out and find another alternative...oh well, never mind I'll just empty the sausage meat out as per recipe and mix it with 1.5tsp of Peperonicino (Chilli) powder, I mean Peperonicino

Sausage balls, Mustard Cream Sauce Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Eat  Buy the book here   Buy the Kindle Version Review:  🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟  OMG I don’t normally like homemade meatballs....until now! This apparently is Nigel’s favourite meatballs ever, MINE TOO! Amazing, soooo tasty  😋 ! Loved it! What more can I say? Pretty quick to cook took around half an hour. I used:  Pork & Pepper sausages from my local butchers and added a dessert spoon of finely grated parmesan, plus a tiny bit of fresh thyme and about a teaspoon worth of chopped parsley and about half a teaspoon of garlic puree. See the a few thoughts section on the recipe page. Beef stock was a regular Knorr (not the rich beef one) beef stock pot.   Don’t add salt, (I've made this recipe before and added it and it was too salty. This time I didn't add any and it was perfect. I served with a 2oz per person portion of tagliatelle as I didn’t have pappardelle in and couldn’t be arsed making any