This month’s recipes
Category Archives: Gluten-free
Cold remedy 1: potato soup with crispy bacon and sage
When I have a cold I go through a few ‘food’ stages. In the first few days I need comfort: soothing soups and lots of toast. Then, when I start to feel the tug of recovery and want to kick-start … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Gluten-free, One pot, Potato recipes, Soup recipes, Winter vegetables
Tagged one-pot, potato soup recipes, soup recipes
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Comfort blanket: chestnut and pear soup
It is officially cold. And there are two or three things I do when the mercury drops so far: first, I put a blanket on the bed, second I think about turning on the heating but resist it as long … Continue reading
Ottolenghi’s grilled mackerel with pesto and courgettes
Doesn’t that mackerel look astonishing? It was such a beautiful lilac pink that it seemed a shame to cook it but, well, needs must when the stomach grumbles. I saw this recipe on the Guardian’s site at the weekend and … Continue reading
Bill Granger’s Greek salad with halloumi
Bill Granger again? Halloumi again? Yes, and I’m not going to apologise because it won’t be long, at least in the UK where it already feels like autumn, before tastes like this seem like a distant memory. This is a delicious mini-tweak to … Continue reading
Last of the summer salads: new potato, bacon and parsley
There are ten days of August left and, though it’s not my favourite month, it is still summer. So I am going to spend these almost-two-weeks squeezing in as many warm weather flavours as I can find. First, a hot new … Continue reading
Wednesday roast: classic two-lemon chicken
Why is it a Sunday roast? Why not a Monday, or Tuesday, or even Wednesday roast? Yes, yes, I get all the likely history and the fact that most of neither have the time or energy to think about a … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken recipes, Cookery writers, Donna Hay, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, Gluten-free, Marcella Hazan, One pot, Summer recipes, The Cook Shelf, Tips you won't want to live without, Wheat-free
Tagged fast recipe ideas, Marcella Hazan, roast chicken, roast chicken recipes
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A quieter night, a sweet potato salad, an ounce of relief
There were still no shops open on the way home last night, even at 5.30pm. And even though I was half tempted to go to the Turkish greengrocer to stock up what I really wanted to do was get home, … Continue reading
Salbitxada…or tomato and almond pesto by another name
Is this easy? Yes. Delicious? Absolutely. Unpronounceable. Without a doubt. But I would just concern myself with the first two; you need to know what it tastes like not what it sounds like. Salbitxada comes from the Valls area of … Continue reading
Sublime sorrel sauce for salmon
My health has recovered and with it my hunger and, as is often the case after a few days of enforced fasting, I want certain things. Like, and I know it’s odd, salmon with sorrel sauce. Sorrel isn’t something easily … Continue reading
Ottolenghi’s roasted aubergines with saffron yogurt
When I want a new idea for the relatively mundane, I turn to Ottolenghi. Whether the chef, the restaurant or the cookbooks, it is, for me, a name synonymous with reinvention, particularly of vegetables. There is no limp lettuce or … Continue reading
