Recipes

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Every recipe here comes off a menu I’ve cooked in a professional kitchen. I’ve scaled them down and swapped commercial equipment for what you have at home.

Seared sardine fillets arranged in a star over sweet-and-sour fennel saor with golden raisins and pine nuts on a blue plate

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Sardines in Saor with Fennel, Raisins and Pine Nuts

1 hr 5 min · Serves 4

Poached calamari salad with roasted red peppers, cucumber, green olives, frisée and chives in a pale green bowl

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Calamari Salad with Roasted Peppers, Green Olives and Chives

30 min · Serves 4

Charred octopus tentacles over garlic skordalia with dots of aioli and crispy potato on a blue ceramic plate

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Octopus with Red Wine Sauce and Skordalia

2 hrs · Serves 4

Smooth pink chicken liver parfait with a pool of clarified butter, toasted baguette, cornichons and quince ketchup on a white plate

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Chicken Liver Parfait with Quince Ketchup

1 hr 40 min · Serves 8