This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Fast food fixes
Summer survival kit: what you really need for easy everyday food
It struck me this week that I had too little, and yet too much stuff. Too little because, once the shops started to close early, I didn’t have enough required staples to make a cup of tea (milk); too much … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, Fish recipes, One pot, Summer recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged Alice Waters, Bill Granger, Innocent, sardine recipes, store cupboard, summer fish recipes
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Piperade…or what to cook when the shops are shut
I know it might seem frivolous to write about food when London’s burning but, well, since I am scared out of my life by the proximity and madness of current events, I am focusing on what I can do to … Continue reading
Posted in Egg recipes, Fast food fixes, Ideas for leftovers, One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged egg recipe, London riots, piperade recipe, store cupboard
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Salbitxada…or tomato and almond pesto by another name
Is this easy? Yes. Delicious? Absolutely. Unpronounceable. Without a doubt. But I would just concern myself with the first two; you need to know what it tastes like not what it sounds like. Salbitxada comes from the Valls area of … Continue reading
Friday tapas: homegrown courgette gratin, tortilla and salbitxada
In the Evening Standard last night there was one of those empty-headed ‘filler’ pieces that said that Rafael Nadal is one of the reasons why we’re buying more Spanish wine in the UK. There was no hard evidence that the … Continue reading
Cauliflower (or broccoli) with bagna cauda and chilli
Yes, yes I know, two posts about cauliflower in a week is too much for anyone. But it’s staring at me from the fridge, it needs eating and, having thrown a rather ridiculously large piece of watermelon away I’m loath … Continue reading
Plum tomato, mint and caper salad
I started my leftover-defrost-declutter process at the weekend not with a recipe but with a rather wasteful trashing of the large, by-now-unhappy-looking, piece of watermelon. So that salad idea was out. Then I made Bill Granger’s honey and garlic chicken again (lovely, but I think … Continue reading
Posted in Cookery writers, Fast food fixes, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Random bits that don't belong in a category..., RIver Cottage Everyday, Salad recipes, Summer recipes, The Cook Shelf, Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged fast recipe ideas, Hugh Fearnley-Whittig, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, summer recipes, summer salad recipes, summer salads, tomato recipes
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Gazpacho days
Sod the leftovers and the defrosting. Today is going to be one of the hottest days of the year and it is therefore one of the very few worthy of gazpacho. I love this stuff, and not because I’m a … Continue reading
Three-month fridge defrost and a Riverford broad bean, feta and mint salad
I have banned myself from food shopping this weekend since I still have a ton of ingredients to use up from last week’s ill-advised farmers’ market run. And, as I can no longer see into the ice-box of my fridge, … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday and Sunday, Fast food fixes, Green veg recipes, Salad recipes, Spring vegetable recipes, Summer recipes, The Cook Shelf, Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged broad bean recipes, fast recipe ideas, quick and easy recipes, salad recipes, summer recipes, summer salad recipes
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Sublime sorrel sauce for salmon
My health has recovered and with it my hunger and, as is often the case after a few days of enforced fasting, I want certain things. Like, and I know it’s odd, salmon with sorrel sauce. Sorrel isn’t something easily … Continue reading
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