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THE LORD OF LEFTOVERS


Spaghetti with Chicken, Tomato & Olives
This recipe is so easy a twelve-year-old boy who loses his bus-pass four times a week could make it. He did. It looked like he'd chopped...
davoodtabeshfar
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Massive Middle Eastern Meatballs
The temptation to flop a sack-load of testicle-based innuendo onto this page is almost too much to resist. But that would be nuts - and...
davoodtabeshfar
Sep 22, 20233 min read
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Potato & Italian Sausage Soup
The genius of this simple soup is in the use of leftover mashed potato as the soup base. I was going to call it Sausage & Mash Soup but...
davoodtabeshfar
Sep 3, 20232 min read
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Spicy Rice Porridge
Like a once-loved song you've heard a thousand times and can no longer stand, rice porridge became my kids' Wonderwall. I would make it...
davoodtabeshfar
Aug 20, 20233 min read
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Banana Bread & Butter Pudding
This recipe should include a good slug of brandy but my shithead eldest found my beloved Henessey XO and drained it. My own parents will...
davoodtabeshfar
Aug 12, 20233 min read
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Chicken Liver Parfait
According to my my good friend Steve, calling this recipe chicken liver parfait makes me a pretentious wanker. "Why can't you call it...
davoodtabeshfar
Jul 30, 20233 min read
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Quickled Onions
See what I did there? I smooshed 'quick' and 'pickled' to create the entirely original and soon-to-be-adopted-worldwide, 'quickled'. You...
davoodtabeshfar
Jul 23, 20232 min read
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Saffron Rice Cake
"Why would you use four dollars worth of saffron to recycle 4o cents worth of rice?" you might ask. "Have you tried my saffron rice cake?...
davoodtabeshfar
Jul 13, 20233 min read
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Chilli & Fennel Seed Oil
My bowels aren't what they used to be. If I smother everything in silly-hot chilli now, I pay for it in painful and frequent instalments....
davoodtabeshfar
Jul 2, 20232 min read
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Spaghetti Fritti
I could have called these spaghetti fritters but where's the romance in that? When you say spaghetti fritti you can't help but season the...
davoodtabeshfar
Jun 24, 20232 min read
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Persian Chicken Salad
The Russians would claim this salad as their own, and to an extent they'd be right. But as with kebabs, moustaches and patriarchal...
davoodtabeshfar
Jun 18, 20233 min read
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Monday Soup
I like people, but not on Sunday afternoons. By Sunday afternoons I'm done with the lot of you and I'd like you all to go away, please....
davoodtabeshfar
Jun 12, 20232 min read
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Jerusalem Artichoke and Green Tahini
These Jerusalem artichokes were abandoned on my doorstep like a basket of knobbly Moseses. So while not leftovers in a traditional sense,...
davoodtabeshfar
Jun 2, 20232 min read
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Not Spanish Omelette
If I call this a Spanish omelette I'll get a bunch of snippy messages from my Spanish friends telling me I've taken a dump on their...
davoodtabeshfar
May 26, 20234 min read
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The Fruit Tart of Shame
There are always five or six wrinkly specimens sitting in a bowl, reminding us of our failure to be a fruit-eating family. We buy fruit...
davoodtabeshfar
May 17, 20234 min read
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Roast Pork Ragu
Any Sunday roast can be a Monday ragu, but pork shoulder is my go-to. It truly is the Madonna of meat - resilient and always ready for...
davoodtabeshfar
May 9, 20234 min read
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Persian Lamb Tongue Soup
Most people will run a mile if you wave a lamb tongue at them. But you're not most people are you, you daring little deviant, you. I...
davoodtabeshfar
Apr 26, 20233 min read
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