This month’s recipes
Category Archives: Salad recipes
The importance of a lemon zester and courgette, lemon, basil and Parmesan salad
What is the one piece of kit that you can’t be without, not in general circumstances but if you are facing the seasonal challenge of a holiday in a rented house? The clichéd response is ‘a good knife’. But doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, One pot, Salad recipes, Summer recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged courgette recipes, salad recipes, Southwold, Trasierra
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Fennel…the ultimate British summer vegetable
London 2012 may be remembered for certain sporting events, from Murray’s breakthrough to that rather big event happening down the road in a few weeks. But, right now, the thing that is most extraordinary, and depressing, about it is the … Continue reading
A green salad with garlic and tuna…inspired by Pamplona
A long time ago a French friend told me that the best, and least offensive, way to add a hint of garlic to a salad was to rub a raw clove or two round the salad bowl before adding all … Continue reading
Posted in Salad recipes, Summer recipes, Travels with my appetite
Tagged green salad, Ortiz tuna, Spanish food, tuna salad
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Warm salads for cold days: black pudding, caramelised apple and walnut
Defeated by this weather, I am yet again struggling to move into ‘spring’ food mode. I had a baked potato this week ffs! I haven’t had one of those all winter but this endless rain just sent me into a … Continue reading
Posted in Salad recipes, Web inspiration
Tagged Cork, fast spring recipes, French recipes, salad recipes, salade nicoise
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The easiest after-work duck with a yummy watercress, black olive and orange salad
I have been caught out by the change in the weather; whilst outside it is steaming hot and more summer than spring, I still have blogs about parsnip latkes to write. And, however excited I am by the change in … Continue reading
A salad to make your tastebuds, and eyes, sing
The frost is here, the snow about to arrive and although I love that blue-sky-white-ground contrast I’m starting to crave bright colours and tastes. I’m also in need of some winter salad inspiration. My defaults are red cabbage, apple and … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday and Sunday, Salad recipes, Vegetarian recipes, Winter vegetables
Tagged fast recipes, Riverford, salad recipes
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Plenty: celeriac, lentil and hazelnut salad
If celeriac is the Cinderella of the vegetable world, then Ottolenghi is surely the fairy godmother. Having just received a copy of his most recent cookery book, I am yet again completely inspired by recipe after recipe that turn mundanities … Continue reading
Posted in Salad recipes, Winter vegetables, Yotam Ottolenghi
Tagged celeriac recipes, ottolenghi
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Winter salads: a spicy red cabbage coleslaw
If there were a prize for most beautiful vegetable, I hope that red cabbage would win it. In winter I never tire of the lovely colour and the incredible sight of its cross-section . Until now my use of it … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Salad recipes, Spicy recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged red cabbage, smitten kitchen, winter salads
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Vietnamese salad recipe
The good news, at least as far as I’m concerned, is that the bug is starting to lose its grip. The bad news is so is the good weather. Blue sky has given way to grey clouds, a drop of … Continue reading
Ottolenghi’s ‘double’ couscous salad
Couscous is something I have always loved, ever since I first tried it in France as a teenager. Along with gazpacho, a vaguely original attempt at the whole shebang (veg, meat, harissa and semoule) was one of the first things … Continue reading
