This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: One pot
Short and Sweet’s goat’s cheese and celeriac tart
Do you ever have nights when the cooking goes horribly wrong? So wrong that you find yourself a) with no appetite left and just having a drink instead, b) trying to rescue the overdone, the tasteless or the unrecognisable or, … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Fast food fixes, One pot, Savoury tart recipes, Short and Sweet
Tagged Dan Lepard, one-pot, winter tarts
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Winter salads: a spicy red cabbage coleslaw
If there were a prize for most beautiful vegetable, I hope that red cabbage would win it. In winter I never tire of the lovely colour and the incredible sight of its cross-section . Until now my use of it … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Salad recipes, Spicy recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged red cabbage, smitten kitchen, winter salads
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Smoked mackerel dauphinoise
Can you remember the days before the internet? When recipes came in magazines and cookery books or from friends? When there was no ‘forward slash’, ‘point com’ or ‘punto com’ to be spelled out? I can and I have fond … Continue reading
Midweek roast chicken recipe: not an oxymoron
There are two things that might put you off roasting chicken midweek…no, make that three: the time, the mess and the expense. However, if you own a good casserole dish (a Dutch oven to you ‘Mericans) you can a) make … 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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Failure…
A long time ago I was a lectrice in Nantes; what that means in practice is that you teach French university students how to speak English. In as far as we knew how to teach anything, being barely more than … Continue reading
The Cook Shelf: Made in Sicily and a simple tomato sauce
As a non-pasta-eater I am not the biggest fan of Italian food. Yes, I know there is a lot more to Italian cuisine than durum wheat but, you have to admit, many of the greatest recipes revolve around it. Which … Continue reading
Roasted lamb shanks with mash: the antidote to cold windy days
Shank, I have just discovered, is another name for shin and for some reason, at least in the UK, it is a term that is only used for lamb and no other meat. A few years ago this lost bit … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Lamb recipes, One pot
Tagged good for friends, lamb recipes, lamb shanks recipe, Nigel Slater, winter roasts
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Comfort blanket: chestnut and pear soup
It is officially cold. And there are two or three things I do when the mercury drops so far: first, I put a blanket on the bed, second I think about turning on the heating but resist it as long … Continue reading
Modern Pantry part two: thit heo kho or Vietnamese pork
There I was, only yesterday, saying how I thought that The Modern Pantry Cookbook was, despite first impressions, full of wonderful ideas and here I am today cooking one of them. I grant you that I chose this recipe because … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Pork recipes, The Modern Pantry Cookbook
Tagged Modern Pantry, pork recipes, thit heo keo
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 