This month’s recipes
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The oven is your friend: roast pork belly with braised red cabbage
If ever there was a week when fast and easy food was required, it’s this one. Most people will be finishing work, or travelling, or writing and buying the last Christmas cards and presents or, poor sods, all of the … Continue reading
An easy pre-Christmas pad Thai for the chronically disorganised
I have my Twiglets and my Mini Cheddars. I have stocked up on Roka Cheese Crispies and some delectable smoked duck. I even have a large tin of Quality Street. However, I seem to have missed the Wine Society’s Christmas … Continue reading
Birthday treats: Dan Lepard’s pear turnovers
A little off-piste post today. It’s my birthday and, well, it’s all about the treats. First, a little light baking: Dan Lepard‘s delicious and never-before-tried sugar-crusted pear turnovers. Easy-peasy and just yum with a homemade latte. No, I didn’t spend … Continue reading
Posted in Cake recipes, Short and Sweet
Tagged cake recipes, Dan Lepard, Moro, pear recipes, St Pancras
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Mushrooms with lemon, garlic, parsley and potato purée
I proofread the new edition of Richard Mabey’s Food For Free last week and I was rather in awe of the number of delicious things that can be had for nothing in the British countryside. First published in 1972 years … Continue reading
Posted in Potato recipes, Winter vegetables
Tagged fast recipes, Food for Free, Richard Mabey, Simon Hopkinson
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An amazing leek and Parmesan soup
What lingers in your fridge? What are the foodstuffs that you either a) always have too much of and/or b) hang on to because it/they will, of course come in handy at some point? I am guilty of always having … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, One pot, Soup recipes, The Kitchen Diaries
Tagged fast recipes, Nigel Slater
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Roasted poussin, or chicken, with lemon and sumac
I went to a party to celebrate (rather than, as is more usual, launch) Dan Lepard’s Short and Sweet the other night. It took place in the newest Comptoir Libanais, in South Kensington, a very simple yet striking restaurant, canteen-like … Continue reading
Posted in Arabesque, Chicken recipes, Claudia Roden, One pot, Yotam Ottolenghi
Tagged chicken recipes, fast recipes, Lebanese recipes
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Baked onions with cream and Parmesan
One of the quickest, and to be fair yummiest, dinners on the planet has to involve buying a ready-roasted chicken from the supermarket rotisserie and eating it with some salad. But, although that’s fine in the summer, in the winter, … Continue reading
Posted in Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries, Winter vegetables
Tagged fast recipes, Nigel Slater, onion recipes
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A Proper Chicken Couscous
Couscous, in the summer, is a perfect match for tomatoes, feta, lemon juice and coriander. But in the winter I want what I think of as ‘French’ couscous: some lamb or chicken, cooked slowly in a spicy broth full of … Continue reading
Really easy pork loin with endive
In Paris the other week Jerry and I spent a lot of time talking about chicory, or endive. We both love it and marvelled at the way its bitter leaves melt when cooked for a long period of time and … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Pork recipes, Simon Hopkinson, Winter vegetables
Tagged chicory recipes, pork recipes, Simon Hopkinson
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Party and Christmas food: Sardine rillettes
Christmas is coming, I’m going to get fat…or rather I am probably going to eat more than is strictly necessary. That is usually because I start to think about what are commonly known as ‘nibbles’ (horrid word) and ‘dips’ (not … Continue reading
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