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Great gluten-free foods from our region's producers

Lynn Robson, owner of The Cottage Kitchen, Kendal, with her gluten-free cakes

5:10pm Thursday 16th May 2013

THIS week is officially national Gut Feeling Week – a campaign launched by Coeliac UK to raise awareness of the intolerance to gluten, which the charity claims affects one in 10 people.

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A great tour of the region

5:22pm Thursday 9th May 2013

LAST week I finally managed to get out and about to meet many of the wonderful producers I recommend each week.

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How to make curried potato pasties

5:31pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

I really fancy making curried potato pasties. Could chef suggest a recipe?

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Mexican food fit for a national celebration

5:30pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

THOUSANDS of people across North and Central America will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with traditional Mexican foods this weekend.

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Learn to make chicken katsu

4:47pm Friday 26th April 2013

We had an amazing chicken katsu curry in Manchester recently. Does chef have a recipe?

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Food to do justice to National Picnic Day

4:45pm Friday 26th April 2013

ALMOST every kind of food seems to have its own celebration day. There is National Garlic Day, National Doughnut Day, Asparagus Week and even a day designated for cherry cheesecake.

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Broadening my culinary horizons

5:29pm Thursday 18th April 2013

AS a food writer, I should probably not admit that I have been known as a fussy eater. Growing up, I went through a vegetarian phase, an ‘I’m eating no meat except chicken’ phase, and have generally not been very experimental when it comes to choosing food.

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Healthy food for spring days

5:27pm Thursday 11th April 2013

ALTHOUGH sad to return to work after more than a week off, I am very glad to see the sun still shining.

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Easter over-indulgence

5:21pm Thursday 4th April 2013

LIKE many people I majorly over-indulged throughout Easter. In fact, I had already eaten a whole Easter egg a couple of weeks before the event, and this was followed by crème eggs, hot cross buns and confectionery of all kinds.

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Big shoes to fill as the new Checkout writer

4:27pm Thursday 28th March 2013

INHERITING the Checkout column from the wonderful Gillian is certainly an honour, if not a slightly daunting task.

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A timely event in Ulverston

5:35pm Thursday 14th March 2013

As the horse meat scandal continues to erupt, never was an event more timely than one coming up at Ulverston at the end of April.

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Agony chef: A favourite mackerel recipe

4:28pm Thursday 7th March 2013

What’s chef’s favoured recipe that uses mackerel?

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A fabulous recipe using scallops

4:27pm Thursday 7th March 2013

A FABULOUS recipe using Isle of Man queenie scallops for you this week. Although the dish recommends using gorgonzola, there’s no reason why you can’t use any British creamy blue vein cheese – like Garstang Blue, or what about Black Dub Blue, which is made by the award-winning Appleby Creamery.

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Rediscovering the joys of shopping local after the horsemeat scandal

5:31pm Thursday 28th February 2013

IF, IN the wake of the horsemeat scandal, you’ve been rediscovering the joys of shopping with our high street butchers – better still, if you are shopping with a local butcher for the very first time – then you will already have found out that supermarkets aren’t the only places that offer a bargain.

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Great meals made of what's left in the freezer

5:20pm Thursday 21st February 2013

MY NEW ‘What’s for tea tonight?’ journal is coming along nicely, although I fear there may be room for improvement on descriptions of dishes.

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Avoid horse meat - use your local butcher

5:30pm Thursday 14th February 2013

By the time these words appear in print I have no doubt yet more shocks will have been revealed in the on-going ‘horse-gate’ debacle.

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How to make a vegetarian pasty

5:33pm Thursday 7th February 2013

I recently had a delicious, chunky vegetarian pasty. Does chef have any tips so I can make one at home?

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An overdose of flavour and smell

5:32pm Thursday 7th February 2013

HAVING just about recovered from the lurgy I told you about last week, I have been celebrating the return of my senses of taste and smell with an overdose of fruit and veg and flavour-packed recipes from my favourite cooks.

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Enjoying food without tasting it

5:51pm Thursday 31st January 2013

CHOOSING a theme for this week’s column was easy. For the past fortnight I’ve been battling a chronic chest infection and severe head cold, the upshot of which is that I’ve lost both my sense of taste and my sense of smell. How cruel is that?

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Fantastic products from all over Cumbria

5:32pm Thursday 17th January 2013

A WARM welcome to our latest Checkout contributor, Powells greengrocers from Sedbergh, whose timely recommendation was for marmalade oranges (£1.75 per kilo).

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