Hit me with your favourite dishes for cooking in a french oven. The pretty blue colour did it.
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Joke of the week:
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What I’ve been watching:
So far so good with this one. Inspired by The Silence of the Lambs.
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Until next week… 😊☕📚
Theresa Smith Writes 
For the casserole dish cook the filling for Matthew Hopcraft’s Beef and Pepperberry pie.
https://10play.com.au/masterchef/recipes/best-ever-beef-pepperberry-and-red-wine-pie/r190614ketqz
From memory it would make enough for two meals. You can make a family sized pie with half of it, and have the other half as a casserole with potatoes any way you like, though I would do them scalloped.
(Pepperberries are not peppers. They are native berries grown in Tassie. It’s easier to get them now than they were. I had to order mine online for my first effort, but now I can buy them in larger supermarkets and posh greengrocers.)
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I love the sound of this. Thanks!
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Silence of the Lambs still gives me nightmares, so I won’t be watching Clarice!
French oven recipes – I have dozens (I was given mine when we got married and I use it at least twice a week). I love this one – https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/bloody-mary-beef/ and also this one from Jamie Oliver: https://thequirkandthecool.com/2014/08/23/jamie-olivers-mexican-chilli/
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Thanks for those recipes. I actually love Jamie Oliver’s food.
I thought Clarice might be a bit more scary than what it has been so far. Still, I’m enjoying it as far as FBI investigation shows go.
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The recipe I’d give you is so complicated, but delicious and you can change around the veggies as you like. It is called Maqluba and it is a Palestinian “upside down” dish. My daughter made it with chicken but you can make it all veggie or use beef or whatever (but not fish).
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It sounds very interesting! And versatile.
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And delicious!
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Oh my goodness, that joke made me laugh really hard. Hello middle age, I’m happy to be here! Also: that pretty blue is everything. Enjoy! xx
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Even with teenagers…the socks and jocks…give me towels anyday! 😁
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Sorry, but if there’s one colour that does not do it for me, it’s blue. I like blue on other people, and in other people’s decorating, but just can’t do it myself. My French oven (which I’ve always called a Dutch oven but I’ve now learnt that because it is enamelled it’s French!) is a pretty green. It’s getting worn out, but I make chicken pilaf in it among other things. Works a treat.
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I do like green too. But I’m very much a blue person for living spaces. My bedroom is predominantly blue too, I find it very restful.
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