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Absolutely cracking birthday lunch @quince_westgate yesterday.

. Cured Chalk Stream trout with cucumber dressing and trout roe
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. Skate with bouillabaisse sauce and smoked prawns
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And basque cheesecake with summer berries

All washed down with a couple of glasses of Albariño
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Great little neighbourhood restaurant on the Kent coast. A real find.

#curedtrout #skate #basquecheesecake #westgateonsea #birthdayweekend

Fried feta with honey and chilli @toklas_london which we mistakenly ordered to share between three of us. You really need 3 of your own. (They’re not quite as big as they look - I went in close to grab the pic!).
Drank a glass of @filipa_pato Dinamica white Bairrada from Portugal with it if you were wondering which went perfectly. Just a touch of tropical fruit which offset the sweetness of the honey.
(For more wine pairings follow my new account @fibeckett_winematcher)
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#feta #fetafries #honey #bairrada #winepairing #foodandwine

Had such a craving to make @dianahenryfood’s courgette, lime and pistachio cake that I made it for pud yesterday - with a few raspberries on the side to make it more dessert-like. It’s well worth breaching the Telegraph paywall for (not a sentence I find myself saying very often). As you can see from the rather rubbish photo we made significant inroads into it!
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#cake #courgette #zucchini #lime #pistachio #dianahenry

Bye Edinburgh. It’s been a blast
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#edinburghfestival #august

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