This month’s recipes
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Author Archives: Louise
Cold remedy 2: Nigel Slater’s aromatic rice
The ideal response to the end of a cold is a Vietnamese soup like this, a Thai one like this or a curry like this. However, since I didn’t have the ingredients for any of those in my cupboards, I was … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, One pot, rice recipes, Spicy recipes
Tagged Nigel Slater recipes, one pot recipes, rice recipes
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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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Alpine food for Alpine weather: Recipe Rifle’s Tartafin
The snow may have melted but there is apparently more on the way and you could be forgiven for slathering yourself in duck fat, wrapping yourself in foil and getting in the oven to keep warm. I have thought of … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, One pot, Potato recipes
Tagged cheese recipes, one pot recipes, potato recipes, Recipe Rifle
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Bertinet bread
If we are starting on the basics, then there is no more basic foodstuff to make, or learn to make than bread. I have always been a bit rubbish at it and envy my friends who can churn out soda … Continue reading
Cupboard love
Happy New Year! I hope that your festive season, if it was festive, was full of good food and drink, lovely people and no nasty lurgies. As ever, I ate, drank and spent too much and although I have no … Continue reading
An Indoor Party Hog Roast
Where have I been? I wish I knew the answer to that. But I’m back! The last three weeks have been a whirl of deadlines, visits and visitors and, for the first time in years, I had a party. And, … Continue reading
Posted in Party recipes, Pork recipes
Tagged Antic Disposition, Christmas party recipes, hog roast, pork recipes, roast recipes
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A new Nigel Slater cookbook and a thrifty risotto
When you live on your own buying herbs is truly a pain in the backside. Especially since the ones I buy are almost always the floppy, go-off-in-three-seconds kind that I can’t grow: flat-leaf parsley, coriander and dill. Whereas thyme, rosemary … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for leftovers, One pot, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Kitchen Diaries II, Nigel Slater, risotto recipes
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WTF Do I Drink Tonight: Fizz and Fab Nuts
A couple of weeks ago Stella and I ran our second wine-tasting. This time we were trying lots of non-Champagne fizz from the sort of wine countries I usually hate, or can’t afford (New Zealand was in there twice, as … Continue reading
Peter Gordon’s Double Chocolate Nut Cookies
The difference between cookies and biscuits is often missed in the UK. Cookies here tend to be a tad too biscuity (in the UK sense of that word) for my liking: too crunchy, too heavy and too thick. A proper … Continue reading
WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 