Across
- 2. pasta named after worms
- 8. spanish rice dish cooked in a wide pan
- 9. leafy green vegetable eaten by Popeye
- 10. Also known as the Egg Plant
- 11. like a casserole but usually cooked in apan
- 14. New Zealand's most famous pudding of meringue, cream and fruit
- 15. jam made from citrus fruits such as oranges or lemons
- 16. chick pea pate from the Middle East
- 17. how pasta should be cooked - literally 'to the tooth' (2,5)
- 19. creamy italian rice dish
- 21. the centre piece of a marriage feast (7,4)
- 23. a British pudding, traditionally made with suet and dried fruit and often served with custard (7,4)
Down
- 1. quick-fried beaten egges
- 3. meat from the back end of a cow (4,5)
- 4. Bengali curry with a thick spicy sauce that includes green chillies
- 5. sausages in batter (4,2,3,4)
- 6. produced by mammals to feed their young
- 7. nuts used in a Waldorf salad
- 12. rolled pudding with jam loved by Harry Redknapp
- 13. expensive japanese beef from pampered cattle
- 14. North East delicacy made of split peas (5,7)
- 18. what you put in a toaster
- 20. japanese dish supposedly consisting of raw fish
- 22. they came before the chickens