This month’s recipes
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Author Archives: Louise
Vietnamese lemongrass chicken: medicine in a wok
Despite this blog’s positive transformation of my cooking and shopping habits I still have days when I can’t be bothered, usually in the dark of winter when I’m feeling a tad melancholy, or work has been uninspiring or, like tonight, … Continue reading
Posted in Bill's Everyday Asian, Chicken recipes, One pot
Tagged Bill Granger, chicken recipes, fast recipes
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My favourite winter soup recipe: Locatelli’s chickpea and sage
Once you’ve made a soup with the classic base of carrots, celery and onions, it’s very difficult to go back to any other style. I love a creamy soup, and a spicy one but this base makes something better, something … Continue reading
Posted in Made in Italy, Soup recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged chickpea recipes, Giorgio Locatelli, winter soup recipes
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Using up leftovers: fried rice with chicken or pork
Did I mention that I am a little obsessed with the likes of coriander, garlic, ginger and spring onions right now? Yes, thought I had. But there is a good reason for it. Last week I cooked pork belly and, … Continue reading
Poached chicken with rice and ginger and spring onion oil
I seem to be a little obsessed with two things right now: poaching meat and the flavours of spring onions, coriander, ginger and garlic. That’s possibly because poaching is simple yet, when you combine it with such herbs and spices, … Continue reading
Glorious, sticky, weeknight pork belly
Yes I know it’s not a lovely photo. But then pork belly, like most cheap cuts of meat, is untidy to look at, a bit lumpen to handle and unlikely to win a beauty contest compared to a fillet steak or … Continue reading
Quick braised chicory with cheese and ham
The first time I ate chicory (sometimes known as endive) it was braised for a few hours, wrapped in ham, covered in béchamel, sprinkled with grated cheese and then baked for another 30 minutes. It was also made by someone … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Wheat-free, Winter vegetables
Tagged cheese recipes, chicory recipes, endive, Judith Jones, Julia Child
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Making Vegetables Sexy: Riverford’s Vegetable App
There has been a lot of chat about vegetarian-only cookery books recently, partly inspired by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s newest offering but also resulting from the financial and ethical requirements of our age: properly bred meat is expensive and who has £14 … Continue reading
Possibly the best, certainly the easiest, biscuit recipe in the world
I first came across a recipe for croquants in Dorie Greenspan’s book and it sounded too good to be true: thrifty, fast, easy. Then in her friend David Lebovitz’s book Ready For Dessert I saw another, but this time in grams … Continue reading
Celeriac and apple soup and Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook
Although I am sure that a) if there was never another cookbook published, we would have plenty of recipes for several millennia, that, b) a bit like stories, there are only so many techniques and recipes that anyone can invent, … Continue reading
I should be blogging about beef stew…
…you know, the one I wanted to make with star anise? Well, I made it, ate it, adapted all my recipe ingredients for two, wrote all my notes ready for the blog and then, erm, I spent two days in … Continue reading
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