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Cooking a Life

Rose Allan

A recipe writer and cheese fanatic, realising that food is only as important as the people you eat it with, sharing a kitchen diary (of sorts).

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Hearty Sausage and Lentils with Radicchio and Goat's Cheese

Sausage with lentils has fast become my most beloved weeknight comfort meal. I stow away a plump coil of pork and fennel sausage in the freezer, ready for my new craving to strike. The rest I know I can throw together from the bedraggled re...

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Salty and Sweet Sardine Spaghetti with Oregano and Lemon

There was a delicious window of time when I, along with a wave of fellow millennial cooks, became enamoured by Alison Roman and her caramelised shallot pasta. At its heart are three simple ingredients: many shallots, a tin of anchovies and...

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Peppery Prawn Spaghetti with Rocket, Butter and Lemon

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How To Eat & A Recipe

My first introduction to the language of Nigella Lawson was really Nigella Bites. Some of my first memories of television were being mesmerised, watching as she cooked with abandon and ate in a state of euphoric fervour. She spoke about eat...

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Dark Chocolate and Salty Peanut Wholemeal Cookies

As 2025 draws to a close, I’ve been straying from my routine and feeling out of sorts. In the hope of reclaiming some of my original momentum, I’m easing back into recipe writing with something short and sweet. Having fiddled with the recip...

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