This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Fast food fixes
Quick blog, quick breakfast: avocado on toast
One of my favourite breakfasts on the planet is pan con tomate, a salty-sweet delight that goes perfectly with good coffee. It might also be my favourite because usually I have it in Granada, and if I’m there I will … Continue reading
£15 week: can it be done and how does chorizo and cider help?
£15 then, a possible feasible budget for two people for a week? Well, yes and no. Yes, because I made four main meals: a) sausage ragu, b) this risotto (not recommended; overwhelmingly rich and salty), c) this cheese soufflé (ALWAYS … Continue reading
Friday Night Fixes: feta-basil crostini and anchovy dressing for green vegetables
My cooking life has, rather unexpectedly, been turned upside down by renovations that don’t even touch the kitchen. A new bathroom. moving the washing machine and new doors would, in most people’s houses, not even stroke the edges of the … Continue reading
The importance of a lemon zester and courgette, lemon, basil and Parmesan salad
What is the one piece of kit that you can’t be without, not in general circumstances but if you are facing the seasonal challenge of a holiday in a rented house? The clichéd response is ‘a good knife’. But doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, One pot, Salad recipes, Summer recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged courgette recipes, salad recipes, Southwold, Trasierra
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Smoked sardine crostini
A completely new ingredient, at least in your own country, is a rarity. So I was delighted to discover smoked sardine fillets in M and S last week. I had no idea what to do with them but, since I … Continue reading
Smitten Kitchen’s Fried Egg Sandwich…Make Two
There are some recipes for which I am eternally grateful. The chocolate mousse one that I learnt in France, the tip for a perfect roast chicken, the cheese soufflé that I never get sick of. I have a small collection … Continue reading
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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Caramelised chicory (or endive…) with Serrano ham
This weekend, in Le Villaret, my friend Jerry chose a better main course than me (don’t you hate it when that happens?): rabbit cooked with sage, rose garlic confit and braised chicory. It was so good that it put my … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, Travels with my appetite, Winter vegetables
Tagged chicory, ottolenghi, Serrano ham
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Mussels with cider and cream
Fast food has such a bad rap but there are some fast foods that are a lot more worthwhile than others. Some are not really food at all (anything in a cardboard box that has been warmed up in a … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, One pot, Seafood recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged fast food ideas, mussel recipes
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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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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 