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Don’t get me wrong, I love roast chicken – it was the main course at my wedding – but it’s easily the most common Sunday lunch we eat. Occasionally, I like to break the monotony with guinea fowl. Some people classify it as game , but it isn’t – it’s farmed, not hunted – and it’s more flavoursome and leaner than chicken. But, it’s not so strong or dissimilar that any fussy roast chicken lover would question your new choice of poultry. Guinea fowl can be roasted like chicken (just for less time), but I’ve given it a seasonal slant by using the roasting juices in a tomato-and-olive sauce and serving it with cheese-crusted potatoes (which might just be the finest thing to have ever happened

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