This month’s recipes
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Author Archives: Louise
Short and Sweet’s goat’s cheese and celeriac tart
Do you ever have nights when the cooking goes horribly wrong? So wrong that you find yourself a) with no appetite left and just having a drink instead, b) trying to rescue the overdone, the tasteless or the unrecognisable or, … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Fast food fixes, One pot, Savoury tart recipes, Short and Sweet
Tagged Dan Lepard, one-pot, winter tarts
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Winter salads: a spicy red cabbage coleslaw
If there were a prize for most beautiful vegetable, I hope that red cabbage would win it. In winter I never tire of the lovely colour and the incredible sight of its cross-section . Until now my use of it … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Salad recipes, Spicy recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged red cabbage, smitten kitchen, winter salads
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…Want Not: gnocchi with butternut squash, caramelised onion, blue cheese and cream
I was all ready to do some moules marinières with cream and cider tonight (see, see what I did there…) and then, ha, Waitrose had sold out of mussels. Now, I know I live in Islington but we’re talking N7 here, … Continue reading
Waste not…
Yesterday’s recipe got me thinking about using stuff up again, especially since I’ve reached the point where I have more leftovers in the fridge than enticing new prospects. This month’s include the rest of the bottle of cider I opened … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Ideas for leftovers, WTF do I drink tonight?
Tagged Falanghina, Nigel Slater
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Dan Lepard’s pumpkin and cider farls
When you work on something that’s nearly 600 pages long, you are often very enthusiastic about the initial chapters (Bread and Cakes; hurrah), but completely fed up by the time you get to the final ones (Desserts and Supper; boo). … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for leftovers, Short and Sweet, Squash recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Dan Lepard, potato cakes, pumpkin recipes
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Tofu and spring onion omelettes
Tofu is something I rarely eat, except in a Szechuan or Cantonese restaurant, mainly because I have no idea how to cook it. But, having noticed a) that the Chinese supermarket on the corner stocks three different types, b) that … Continue reading
Pop-up dining and poetry: a marriage made in heaven or recipe for divorce?
Pop is my least favourite word in the English language (why ‘pop’ something into the oven when you can ‘put’ it, why ‘pop’ out when you can go out?) but, strangely, ‘pop-up’, at least when applied to restaurants, is one … Continue reading
Tom kha kai: spicy coconut soup
On the blackboard in my kitchen there is a list. I call it my ‘eat up’ list because it details most of the perishables in my fridge (I’m not so anal as to list butter and milk…). I use it … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, Soup recipes, Spicy recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged coconut soup, easy Thai recipes, Thai soup
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Smoked mackerel dauphinoise
Can you remember the days before the internet? When recipes came in magazines and cookery books or from friends? When there was no ‘forward slash’, ‘point com’ or ‘punto com’ to be spelled out? I can and I have fond … Continue reading
Thai green curry recipe: all the way from Chiang Mai
I am very very fond of Thai green curry. I don’t care that it’s a bit old hat, or that there are more interesting, and probably authentic Thai dishes to cook and eat. It perfectly combines just enough spiciness with … Continue reading
WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 