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Thea's Ned Kelly pie

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Another week, another recipe. This time around we have a guest contribution from Balearic Kitchen friend Thea Everett. A leader, a hero, and a certified legend, Thea is one of the best home cooks in South London. I was lucky enough to attend a barbque she hosted last summer and I still daydream about  You can see what she's been knocking up in the kitchen over on her own cookery blog, the incomparably great What's That You're Cooking, Thea ?  For our latest dish, we make a pretty substantial journey as we p ack our bags in Greece and follow Thea all the way to Australia. If you've never heard of a 'Ned Kelly pie' before, you probably aren't alone. But after reading the following recipe, I'm pretty certain that you'll be clamouring for one.  This has got "lazy Satuday afternoon cooking project" written all over it, so why not use your allotted exercise time later this week to pick up supplies for the best pie you've eaten all l...
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Braised cabbage with chorizo and chickpeas

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From Ca'n Picafort to Quarantine

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¡Hola! This blog - a blog! In 2020! - has been established as a means of staving off boredom during the lockdown. But it's spirit was born in a different time, in a different place. Sat on a Mallorcan beach last summer I began thinking about writing up recipes. Hardly an original idea I know, but lying semi-supine on the shores of the Mediterranean sea with a can of Estrella Dam daydreaming about earthenware dishes filled with albóndigas, gambas, or pulpo a la gallega it made sense. Then the holiday ended and life got in the way and I stuffed the idea in the drawer where it sat amongst other half-baked and unrealised projects.  But with food playing an even more outsized role than usual in most of our lives, now feels like the perfect time to collate and collect the recipes that are seeing us through the early days of an extended, house-bound, unprecedented and near-global lockdown.  Recipe blogs, though, are ten a penny. So how does this one plan to stand out in...
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