La Recette du Jour

An excellent accompaniment to a roast. A useful characteristic of this recipe when entertaining is that you can cook the potatoes in advance, and then just put them in the oven for 10-15 minutes while the meat is resting.

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As recorded in a Yorkshire kitchen. Photos taken in haste, they are too good to leave hanging around!

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From Edouard de Pomiane via Elizabeth David, who says it ‘makes tomatoes taste startlingly unlike any other dish of cooked tomatoes’.

We had it as a starter but we reckoned it would be fab with some nice fillet steak - or with roast/grilled lamb.

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