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Author Archives: Louise
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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Dorie Greenspan’s Vietnamese chicken soup
Fed up with all that heavy food? Yes, me too a bit. Probably that second, or was it third?, slice of blue cheese tart that did it. This gorgeous Vietnamese soup is the perfect antidote to all of that buttery, … Continue reading
Posted in Around My French Table, Dorie Greenspan, Soup recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged Dorie Greenspan, Vietnamese recipes
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Lovely, simple blue cheese tart
One of the banes of living alone, or of cooking for one or two, is leftovers. Most of the time a recipe for four or six can be scaled down to two or three but, when it comes to baking, … Continue reading
Improving sausages and mash
Sometimes, in fact a lot of the time in my case, all we want when we get home is something familiar, something that requires very little thought and yet is immensely pleasing. For me, in the winter, that often means … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Nigel Slater
Tagged fast recipes, Nigel Slater recipes, quick and easy recipes, sausages and mash
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Curried parsnip soup…no, come back, it’s really delicious and healthy!
This soup could have been designed for January detoxes. Wheat- and dairy-free (well, if you use olive oil for the sautéeing), it is still comfortingly thick and warming without being loaded with fat and potatoes. Yes, the parsnips are starchy … Continue reading
Baked not stirred: risotto the easy way
It’s post-Christmas leftover central in my fridge right now: there’s blue cheese and Cheddar, too many carrots and parsnips for one person to eat, result of a rather ill-fated decision to succumb to red ‘reduced’ stickers and three half-opened pots … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Delicious magazine, rice recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged easy risotto recipe, fast recipes
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Back to school baked Vacherin recipe
Back to school…could they be the three most hated words in the English language? And why is it that, more than twenty-five years after my last BTS experience, the return to work in January still resonates with the impending horror … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Fast food fixes, One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged Back to school, melted cheese recipes, Mont d'Or, Vacherin
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…and my blogging year ends
Last year I discovered the secret to true relaxation, at least these days. I was spending Christmas in the States and not only could I not use my iPhone, not without incurring huge charges anyway, but I also decided to … Continue reading
Christmas begins…
Today has been a day devoted to food. I am spending Christmas with friends, so I thought I’d better make some contributions. First I soaked fruit for the second Dundee cake of the week (Delia’s), made mince pies (Delia’s mincemeat; … Continue reading
Posted in Web inspiration
Tagged Dan Lepard, Delia Smith, Dorie Greenspan, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Simon Hopkinson
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Rib-sticking, warming and filling leek, potato and bacon bake
The oven is your friend I wrote yesterday, even when the washing machine is not. This time last year my roof terrace was being ripped up and replaced to stop it leaking into my neighbours’ kitchen (it started the day, … Continue reading
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