This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Cheese recipes
Champagne, cheesy biscuits and celebrating
I am celebrating. The bathroom is done-ish, I have some more work when the landscape was looking distinctly bare and I have just made peace with my oldest friend in the world, probably one of the few people, bar my … Continue reading
Nigel’s onion and cheese tart
What is the thing you always have too much of in the fridge/house? Mine is dairy: for example I currently have Parmesan, Cheddar, Brie, and St Agur, cream cheese and Italian mascarpone and butter. Usually I have a pot of … 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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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
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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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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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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…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
WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 