This month’s recipes
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Author Archives: Louise
The Italian blog: Locatelli’s sea bream with tomatoes, capers, parsley and garlic
Italy, unlike France, Spain and the States, has never been a place that has really tempted me. Especially not in food terms. This might have something to do with the fact that I am a tiny bit wheat-intolerant and can … Continue reading
Posted in Fish recipes, One pot
Tagged An Appetite for Italy, easy fish recipes, Giorgio Locatelli, Italian food
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Sunday perfect: Peter Gordon’s Parmesan and pine nut scones
Once upon a time, there were three small children, my sister’s children. I loved making them food, even though that often consisted of serving them honey sandwiches (a true sign of my love for them, since I am a teensy … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast recipes, Peter Gordon
Tagged baking, brunch recipes, Peter Gordon, scones, Shakespeare's Globe
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Perfect, never-bore-of-it, granola
If there is one thing I make all the time, one thing that I can, just about, do without a recipe, it’s this granola. I wrote about it four years ago, on my first food blog, and it suddenly struck … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Granger, Breakfast recipes
Tagged Bill Granger, breakfast, easy recipes, granola
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The ‘Little Black Dress’ of roast chicken recipes
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, at some point during the year, usually at Christmas, most women’s magazines will mention the need for, and the delight of a LBD, aka as a ‘Little Black Dress’. Though the repetition of … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken recipes, One pot, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Wheat-free
Tagged Deb Perelman, roast chicken recipes
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Dukka: party food par excellence
The weather is changing, my heart is lifting with it and my thoughts are turning to entertaining. Well, actually, they’ve already turned that way since I had my London Loop companions round last night and some of my Antic Disposition … Continue reading
Smitten Kitchen’s lemon bars
Do you remember school dinners? Do you remember your favourites? Or, perhaps, like me, your least favourites were more memorable? I, for one, have never been able to eat jam, or most gelatinous things like honey or jelly, after being … Continue reading
Polpetto’s kale with almonds and shallots
If there is such a thing as the restaurant or restaurateur of the ‘moment’ in London then Polpo, and particularly Russell Norman, must be it. Right now, not only are they opening new branches and a new pub but Mr … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free, Winter vegetables
Tagged Florence Knight, kale recipes, Polpetto, Russell Norman
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An early spring clean and an old favourite…chicken
Spring cleaning comes early in my home. By the time February is on us, I have usually been through my clothes and books and am itching to find something else to chuck out and/or re-organise. This year, it was the … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Chicken recipes, One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged chicken recipes, Frank Spencer, Nigel Slater, spring cleaning
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Thomasina Miers’s chorizo, potato and thyme quesadillas
It took me a long time to get into Mexican food. As a student my distinct memory was of acres of chilli con carne and dried-up refried beans; not the most appetising combination. Then in the States, home to some of … Continue reading
Posted in Mexican Food Made Simple, Pork recipes, Thomasina Miers
Tagged mexican food, quesadilla recipe, Thomasina Miers, Wahaca
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Fuchsia Dunlop’s red-braised pork recipe
Possibly one of the most embarrassing conversations I ever had was about Chinese food at a Society of Authors‘ ‘young’ (i.e. under 40…) drinks party. I was talking to someone I had just met and bitching about how Time Out‘s … Continue reading
Posted in Every Grain of Rice, One pot, Pork recipes
Tagged Chinese recipes, Fuchsia Dunlop, pork belly recipes
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 