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Apicius has a recipe for a braised flamingo, something that is illegal now. I have used chicken and tried to combine Italian dishes with Asian flavours. As a nod to the Flamingo, I knew I wanted the chicken to be pink. Apicius called for defrutum, which is a kind of viscous syrup made from grapes, so I have used pomegranate and beetroot and added some sri lankan spices to it, and a slight touch of colouring because it didn't look like it was going to be coloured enough.

The sauce is also from the recipe, with the addition of tamarind to darken it. I used some of the syrup in it too in place of the dates, and sadly that wasn't covered up by the tamarind as fully as I thought it would be. The sformato is crossed with a palak paneer but the ratio of the ricotta to spinach was too high so it wasn't as green as I had panned for it to be.

All in all, I feel like this was tasty but it didn't come out in the three vibrant and distinct colours I'd imagined.

I want to see Athens and the friend who visited from England this week wants to go to the Caribbean, so I took the ingredients of a Bermudan breakfast put it in filo pastry like a Greek spanakopita. instead of spinach I used callaloo. It's saltfish, thyme, egg, potato, tomato, onion, feta and some jerk flavours. There's a sort of jerk gravy on the side because I thought it would be easier than getting the heat right in the dish itself with stronger chillies than I typically use.

This was terrible. After being told that there were more 'Alps' in the world than just the one range I knew about, I found a Korean site with a picture of some delicious looking dumplings. Though I hate making dumplings and am terrible at it, enough time had passes since my last attempt that, not only did I forget that fact, I also thought "Buckwheat powder is kneaded with warm water to make the mandu skin" was enough instruction to manage it myself. It was not.

The tartiflette inspired filling, from the French alps, was delicious, and I made it again on a much more delicious Flammkuchen. I guess that would have hit the theme too, but I didn't think about that at the time, and usually only take photos of theme food so have to upload this failure instead.