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TREAT yourself

Summer. Holidays. Don’t you just love those two words? To me, they evoke early mornings spent quietly padding about the house before any guests who happen to be staying emerge from their slumber to sneak out for a morning swim. It’s a time when we can all cook with the seasons, because the gifts from the garden and orchard are abundant and cheap. But holiday food can also veer wildly towards the indulgent and excessive.

If you live, like I do, at a holiday destination, then friends and family love to come to stay – and as they tumble out of the car on arrival, so too does the swag of treats they’ve generously brought with them. It can be an endless feast of rich, albeit scrumptious, meals, starting

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