#simple starters

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❤️‍🩹 for an angst starter

🥰 for a fluff starter

📖 for a starter taken from a book

🍿 for a starter taken from a movie or show

🎵 for a lyric starter

🎬 for a canon dialog starter

💭 for a starter from my wishlist

Fennel and Chicken Soup

A fabulous combination! And a great way to use up left over chicken…oh and one of my very favourite vegetables! Ingredients 1 fennel bulb – trimmed and cut roughly into 3 or 4 chunks. 1 tulip shallot – or a small onion if not available 1 litre of chicken stock A pinch of saffron A pinch or two of smoked paprika A clove of garlic crushed About 100 gm left over chicken meat – no skin A little olive…

A sumptuous simple starter to grace any table any time…especially in the throes of Autumn!

Autumn. Browns and golds speckle every roadside. Seasonal magic weaves its way into every household. Oranges and burnt umbers cascade form hedgerows. Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness descend upon each culinary heart.

So it is that tonight after a simple carpaccio starter, I turn to a dish that one…