This month’s recipes
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Author Archives: Louise
Perfect, last-week-of-work, pork, chorizo and black olive stew
It’s quite difficult, I have just discovered, to take an appetising picture of a stew. Mind you, ‘stew’ itself is not the most appetising of words or prospects. But please don’t let that header photo, or the name put you … Continue reading
How to feel rich for a quid: make cheese #2 and palak paneer
If labne‘s not your thing, or you want something a little more sturdy that you can cook with, then perhaps try making paneer. Common to south-east Asia, it’s a cheese that is difficult to buy yet really easy to make. Easy … Continue reading
Posted in How to feel rich for a quid, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Dan Lepard, Korasoi, Meera Sodha, one-pot, paneer
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A winter warmer: Alsacian baeckeoffe
I discovered baeckeoffe when I lived in Strasbourg for a year and, whereas other students headed mostly for Paris or the south, I headed east, not because I was particularly imaginative but because I had friends there. It did my French accent the … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged Alsace, baeckeoffe recipe, french home cookbook, winter stew
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Roasted cauliflower and hazelnut salad
I love a winter salad; I particularly love a winter salad that makes the most of a vegetable that was once, at least in the UK, only known for its affinity with cheese but, these days, is very much lauded beyond … Continue reading
How to feel rich for a quid: make cheese #1
Cheese, she says. I can hear the sighs from here. But cheese isn’t all the hard stuff, only produced by those wearing hairnets and plastic shoes. It can also be the likes of this labne, or ricotta, or paneer, soft cheeses … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese recipes, Claire Thomson, Guardian, labne, ottolenghi, vegetarian recipes
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Clarke’s 30 Ingredients and baked chicory with cream and garlic
Every so often a cookbook comes along that blows me away. And, being a publishing type, to blow me away it has to tick a lot more boxes than the recipe one. Apart from at least five things I want to … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetarian recipes
Tagged 30 Ingredients, Alice Waters, chicory recipes, Elizabeth David, Sally Clarke
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How to feel rich for a quid: Mexican corn on the cob
Oh, corn on the cob; is it the cheapest, most delicious thing ever? On a recent trip to the States I was surprised, since it was September, not to see any either on menus or for sale by the road and, … Continue reading
How to feel rich for a quid: make bread #3
Have you made any bread yet? Did I tempt you with the slow-rise, no-work bread or the quick-turn-around-in-a-bowl soda bread? No? Then how about something in-between, my final offering: spelt bread. Spelt is a type of wheat, the ancestor of the wheat most of us eat now, … Continue reading
HFW’s Love your Leftovers ribollita
I absolutely hate waste, so half my miniscule fridge is full of scraps of this and that which I can’t bear to chuck. Until now, I rarely managed to use many of them up before the inevitable rot set in but, … Continue reading
How to feel rich for a quid: make bread #2
My last post about bread was for those who love sourdough, but don’t have the time or space to look after a starter. But that recipe requires patience; this is for those who have none, or rather who have very little. Soda … Continue reading
Posted in Bread recipes
Tagged Alice Waters, Darina Allen recipes, Hilary Cacchio, Jenny Linford, Martha Stewart
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 