Restaurant Highlight – DOOD, Newcastle Quayside

I was in Newcastle for the weekend, visiting my boyfriend for a belated birthday celebration, and he took me to DOOD, a Persian restaurant situated right on the Quayside in a beautiful, old, industrial-looking building. Now, I should start by saying that I didn’t choose this restaurant, so I can’t…

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White Mulled Wine

Ingredients 1 Bottle of Wine you would drink (apparently this matters in gravies as well?) 3 thick slices of orange 1 1.5 cm round of Ginger 1 or 2 cinnamon sticks (just preference) 1 star anise 5-6 Cloves (if you’ve got them! We didn’t and it worked just as well,…

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Aoife’s Risotto

Risotto will always remind me of my sisters because my older sister, Abaigh makes the world’s best risotto, her mushroom being the best. However, despite Abaigh’s clear connection to risotto and perhaps the snub of naming this one after our youngest sister, this bad boy is Aoife’s dream risotto because…

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