This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Ideas for leftovers
How to eat well, whilst working full-time, in five steps
Those who read this blog regularly will know that for most of its existence I have been freelance, working a maximum of four days per week, generally from home. Which has meant that cooking for both the site, and for … Continue reading
HFW’s Love your Leftovers ribollita
I absolutely hate waste, so half my miniscule fridge is full of scraps of this and that which I can’t bear to chuck. Until now, I rarely managed to use many of them up before the inevitable rot set in but, … Continue reading
Savoy cabbage and Parmesan soup
There is a moment, about now, when the earth starts to wake up and smell, not in a too-many-dogs-not-enough-flowers way but more in a, well, earthy sort of way. I absolutely love it. I crave light more than warmth so … Continue reading
A new Nigel Slater cookbook and a thrifty risotto
When you live on your own buying herbs is truly a pain in the backside. Especially since the ones I buy are almost always the floppy, go-off-in-three-seconds kind that I can’t grow: flat-leaf parsley, coriander and dill. Whereas thyme, rosemary … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for leftovers, One pot, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Kitchen Diaries II, Nigel Slater, risotto recipes
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Using up leftovers: fried rice with chicken or pork
Did I mention that I am a little obsessed with the likes of coriander, garlic, ginger and spring onions right now? Yes, thought I had. But there is a good reason for it. Last week I cooked pork belly and, … 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
Waste not…
Yesterday’s recipe got me thinking about using stuff up again, especially since I’ve reached the point where I have more leftovers in the fridge than enticing new prospects. This month’s include the rest of the bottle of cider I opened … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Ideas for leftovers, WTF do I drink tonight?
Tagged Falanghina, Nigel Slater
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Dan Lepard’s pumpkin and cider farls
When you work on something that’s nearly 600 pages long, you are often very enthusiastic about the initial chapters (Bread and Cakes; hurrah), but completely fed up by the time you get to the final ones (Desserts and Supper; boo). … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for leftovers, Short and Sweet, Squash recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Dan Lepard, potato cakes, pumpkin recipes
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Perfect fried rice
After last night‘s very northern, wintry food, I wanted something different tonight, something that would use up the leftover cooked chicken yet taste completely fresh. I was, as ever, expecting a lot. At first I thought of risotto but that … Continue reading
Blue cheese soup
Ah, the heating is on and it’s time for soup. And this is one of the simplest you will ever make. The name of this reminds me of the Clangers, a British children’s TV programme from the 70s, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Ideas for leftovers, One pot, Soup recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged autumn recipes, blue cheese, Clangers, soup recipes
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 