Rough Cut Kitchen

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  • Lamb Backstrap with Eggplant and Tomato

    Lamb Backstrap with Eggplant and Tomato

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    Dennis Franklin
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    This started with a lamb backstrap and a fridge that needed clearing out. There was still eggplant from earlier in the week, already turned into escabeche, along with a run of heritage tomatoes that all came in together — different colours, all ripe at once — and some spring onions that needed using. Enough there…

  • End of Season Eggplant – Berenjenas en Escabeche

    End of Season Eggplant – Berenjenas en Escabeche

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    Dennis Franklin
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    There comes a point toward the end of the season where the eggplants are still coming, but you can tell they’re not going to get much better. They’re smaller, sometimes a bit tougher, and you’ve usually got more than you planned for. But they still need to be used. Leaving them on the plant isn’t…