This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: One pot
The Italian blog: Locatelli’s sea bream with tomatoes, capers, parsley and garlic
Italy, unlike France, Spain and the States, has never been a place that has really tempted me. Especially not in food terms. This might have something to do with the fact that I am a tiny bit wheat-intolerant and can … Continue reading
Posted in Fish recipes, One pot
Tagged An Appetite for Italy, easy fish recipes, Giorgio Locatelli, Italian food
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The ‘Little Black Dress’ of roast chicken recipes
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, at some point during the year, usually at Christmas, most women’s magazines will mention the need for, and the delight of a LBD, aka as a ‘Little Black Dress’. Though the repetition of … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken recipes, One pot, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Wheat-free
Tagged Deb Perelman, roast chicken recipes
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Dukka: party food par excellence
The weather is changing, my heart is lifting with it and my thoughts are turning to entertaining. Well, actually, they’ve already turned that way since I had my London Loop companions round last night and some of my Antic Disposition … Continue reading
An early spring clean and an old favourite…chicken
Spring cleaning comes early in my home. By the time February is on us, I have usually been through my clothes and books and am itching to find something else to chuck out and/or re-organise. This year, it was the … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Chicken recipes, One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged chicken recipes, Frank Spencer, Nigel Slater, spring cleaning
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Fuchsia Dunlop’s red-braised pork recipe
Possibly one of the most embarrassing conversations I ever had was about Chinese food at a Society of Authors‘ ‘young’ (i.e. under 40…) drinks party. I was talking to someone I had just met and bitching about how Time Out‘s … Continue reading
Posted in Every Grain of Rice, One pot, Pork recipes
Tagged Chinese recipes, Fuchsia Dunlop, pork belly recipes
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Winter tabbouleh recipe, via Moro and me
Living in N7 can be a mixed blessing. You can, for example, buy the above haul of vegetables for less than £9. However, you may have to dodge the people shopping in wet pink slippers to do so. But I … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free, Winter vegetables
Tagged Moro, salad, vegetarian
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HFW’s Mexican chorizo: a dream storecupboard ingredient
Once upon a time chorizo came cured and in slices. It was something you had on toast for a tapa and struggled to pronounce. Then, a few years ago, a new form of chorizo appeared on our shores: a cooking … Continue reading
A New Year’s brunch: Ottolenghi’s shakshuka
When I was a teenager there was one recurrent theme about Christmas: even though the house was full of snacks and free booze, by December 27th I was desperate, frantic even, to get out of the house and pay to … Continue reading
Throw-in-the-oven Ottolenghi chicken (no, not an oxymoron)
Whenever I rave about Ottolenghi, someone always says, without fail, ‘oh I can’t be bothered; he uses too many ingredients’. In the last week alone the mention of his name to a) a real foodie and b) someone not that … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken recipes, One pot, The Guardian, Wheat-free, Yotam Ottolenghi
Tagged chicken recipes, one-pot, the Guardian, Yotam Ottolenghi
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A winter salad for a sunny day
I am a little bit obsessed with vegetables at the moment, so forgive me for another flesh-free post. It’s all the lovely Sarah’s fault. She’s a vegetarian, a real vegetarian (rather than the ones who are actually ‘pescatarians’), and during … Continue reading
WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 