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Toasted homebaked seedy wholemeal with half a tin of sardines on it, dollop of hot sauce and lashings of black pepper.

A very ripe plum, a few spoons of strawberry bio-yoghurt, and some red grapes.
 
That lurid-coloured plastic bacon always looks deeply unsettling in the chiller cabinets of shops. What does it taste like and is it edible?

The potato cakes and tomatoes look nice though.
 
I'm in the process of perfecting my channa dal + tarka thing and the one I had just now was quite good. It's definitely in the balance of ginger and garlic, with their interaction in the food depending on how permeable and soft the dal is. Any tips gratefully received.

Asafoetida (hing).

That is my one tip for any sort of daal dish, it elevates it to stratospheric levels. Just a pinch (about 1/8th of a teaspoon of yellow asafoetida, or 1/16th of a teaspoon of raw brown asafoetida - fry it in the ghee/oil that you use to make your tarka and that activates the flavours and removes the bitterness - I recommend getting the yellow mixed stuff though because it doesn't make your kitchen cupboard smell like burning rubber).
 
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