This month’s recipes
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Delia’s moussaka…no, no don’t go. You want this recipe, honest!
My very first recipe book was The Pooh Cook Book, which I got when I was 11. My name, address and school form (1P2 if you were wondering) are written in blue ink inside the front cover but otherwise the … Continue reading
Posted in Aubergine recipes, Delia Smith, Lamb recipes, One pot
Tagged Delia Smith, Ginette Mathiot, Greek food, moussaka, Pooh Cook Book
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Salmon with butter sauce…or is that beurre blanc?
It’s Friday, tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day and I was inspired by both of those things to cook this Darina Allen recipe, as spotted in the Guardian. Now, she calls the sauce ‘Irish butter sauce’ but, personally, I don’t think … Continue reading
Making Vegetables Sexy: Riverford’s Vegetable App
There has been a lot of chat about vegetarian-only cookery books recently, partly inspired by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s newest offering but also resulting from the financial and ethical requirements of our age: properly bred meat is expensive and who has £14 … Continue reading
Possibly the best, certainly the easiest, biscuit recipe in the world
I first came across a recipe for croquants in Dorie Greenspan’s book and it sounded too good to be true: thrifty, fast, easy. Then in her friend David Lebovitz’s book Ready For Dessert I saw another, but this time in grams … Continue reading
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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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
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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