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here’s a bit more to this month’s recipe (p106), which is my favourite onion tart to make with the odds and ends of Christmas cheese left in the fridge. With this dish, I want to teach you a couple of cooking techniques. Top two on my things-people-get-wrong-in-the-kitchen list are sweating onions and baking pastry. I’ve just written a whole book dedicated to 30-minute recipes, so I know how pushed we are for time when it comes to putting dinner on the table. But, sometimes, to truly transform humble ingredients you need to give them time. To sweat onions, you want the natural sugars to caramelise

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