This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Fast food fixes
Tortilla de patatas: a proper Spanish omelette
They have something called a tortilla francesa on café menus in Spain and anything less French I have yet to see. Flat like a pancake, usually cooked to complete dryness, it has none of the fluffy, yet rich lightness I … Continue reading
Puy lentil salad with goat’s cheese, spinach and pine nuts
Comfort food isn’t something I often associate with the summer. It’s a description I tend to use for sausages and mash, roast dinners and bowls of soothing Thai chicken soup. But sometimes I crave a particular taste, a particular combination … Continue reading
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Roasted tomato and asparagus with basil purée, Parmesan and bacon
June 2011, apparently, has been colder than March. Which means that sometimes though salad seems more seasonal, soup starts to look vaguely attractive. Last night I had it all planned: my friend was coming to stay, I’d got lots of … Continue reading
Tagliata or Steak, Rocket and Parmesan salad recipe
Tagliata means ‘cut’ or ‘sliced’ in Italian and there are many variations on this recipe which, at its base, is a rare steak, sliced up and served with salad and a lemon, garlic and Parmesan dressing. Jill Dupleix creates a … Continue reading
Courgette and Tomato Tian recipe
Courgettes and tomatoes are now in season and therefore cheap and this tian is a truly easy and delicious way to cook them both. Tian, as I mentioned last week, is the Provençal word for an earthenware dish and, if … Continue reading
Posted in Cookery writers, Elisabeth Luard, Fast food fixes, Gluten-free, One pot, Recipes from magazines and newspapers, Spring vegetable recipes, Summer recipes, The Guardian, Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free
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Asparagus with fried capers: Rozanne Gold again
Today’s post is a bit like last night’s dinner: short, fast and done in the gaps between everything else. I sing in a choir on a Tuesday night so I either a) eat a sandwich on the train home between … Continue reading
Rozanne Gold’s Chicken with Crème Fraîche recipe
Some friends came to dinner recently and they were a tad early…early enough for me to lose my last half hour and therefore for them to lose their dessert. As we sat around the table post the lamb tagine, I … Continue reading
Lamb mini-burgers with tapenade and feta
Summer’s back! We sat out on the balcony listening to the sirens of Finsbury Park last night, with barely a thought of turning the heating back on. I said barely. And with the welcome rise in temperature comes the promise … Continue reading
Moro’s tabbouleh salad recipe
Within a month south-east England has gone from proper summer temperatures (26° or so at the end of April) to something approaching autumn. It’s windy, grey and so cold that I have to resist the urge to turn the heating … Continue reading
Spinach and raisin tian recipe
All that Tesco’s shopping has sent me kicking and screaming to the South of France, at least in terms of recipe ideas. A tian, according to Larousse Gastronomique is ‘an earthenware ovenproof dish from Provence…used to prepare all kinds of … Continue reading
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