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March 30, 2017 Extras

Cricket recipe: Ged Ladd’s “Home Of Cricket” Glazed Drunken Prawns

2 minute readKing Cricket was one of my guests the first time I cooked and served this dish. Although he praised the dish, KC also described the glaze as “less of a glaze, more of a gelatinous gloop”. Well I can assure you, King Cricket, my original attempt at Throdkin was gloopy,

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