This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: One pot
Poached Asian duck…bloody marvellous and easy peasy
Poaching is now officially one of my favourite ways to cook meat. Chicken and pork come out beautifully juicy, without a trace of overdoneness and now, ha, this recipe shows how wonderful duck can be cooked in the same way. … Continue reading
Vietnamese lemongrass chicken: medicine in a wok
Despite this blog’s positive transformation of my cooking and shopping habits I still have days when I can’t be bothered, usually in the dark of winter when I’m feeling a tad melancholy, or work has been uninspiring or, like tonight, … Continue reading
Posted in Bill's Everyday Asian, Chicken recipes, One pot
Tagged Bill Granger, chicken recipes, fast recipes
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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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An amazing leek and Parmesan soup
What lingers in your fridge? What are the foodstuffs that you either a) always have too much of and/or b) hang on to because it/they will, of course come in handy at some point? I am guilty of always having … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, One pot, Soup recipes, The Kitchen Diaries
Tagged fast recipes, Nigel Slater
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Roasted poussin, or chicken, with lemon and sumac
I went to a party to celebrate (rather than, as is more usual, launch) Dan Lepard’s Short and Sweet the other night. It took place in the newest Comptoir Libanais, in South Kensington, a very simple yet striking restaurant, canteen-like … Continue reading
Posted in Arabesque, Chicken recipes, Claudia Roden, One pot, Yotam Ottolenghi
Tagged chicken recipes, fast recipes, Lebanese recipes
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A Proper Chicken Couscous
Couscous, in the summer, is a perfect match for tomatoes, feta, lemon juice and coriander. But in the winter I want what I think of as ‘French’ couscous: some lamb or chicken, cooked slowly in a spicy broth full of … Continue reading
Really easy pork loin with endive
In Paris the other week Jerry and I spent a lot of time talking about chicory, or endive. We both love it and marvelled at the way its bitter leaves melt when cooked for a long period of time and … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Pork recipes, Simon Hopkinson, Winter vegetables
Tagged chicory recipes, pork recipes, Simon Hopkinson
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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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HFW’s celeriac soup with chilli confit
Thrift is very much on my mind at the moment. I suppose it has been on everyone’s mind for a few years but right now, as the world’s 8th largest economy (can you believe that? I couldn’t) edges nearer to … Continue reading
Cheering myself up on a foggy 111111: Mexican pork carnitas
Today is Remembrance Day but I won’t be thinking of World War I or II, or of service personnel lost and still serving. I will be thinking of my Dad who died nine years ago. He wasn’t really into food, … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Pork recipes, Spicy recipes
Tagged Cambridgeshire, mexican food, smitten kitchen
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 