This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Spring vegetable recipes
Ottolenghi’s roasted aubergines with saffron yogurt
When I want a new idea for the relatively mundane, I turn to Ottolenghi. Whether the chef, the restaurant or the cookbooks, it is, for me, a name synonymous with reinvention, particularly of vegetables. There is no limp lettuce or … Continue reading
Habas con jamon…broad beans with ham recipe
There’s still tortilla in the fridge, the first of the broad beans are finally starting to appear and, inspired by the Spanish theme yesterday I keep thinking about ‘habas con jamon’ to serve with the leftovers. Habas, or beans, are … Continue reading
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
For the days when…puttanesca recipe
…you want summer sunshine and there is only rain. …you’re so late home from work that even the cats won’t speak to you. …you’d quite like to go out for a drink but you’re too tired to organise it. …you … 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
Posted in Bill Granger, Cookery writers, Delia Smith, Delia Smith's Summer Collection, Fast food fixes, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, One pot, Random bits that don't belong in a category..., Recipes from magazines and newspapers, Salad recipes, Spring vegetable recipes, Summer recipes, The Cook Shelf, The Guardian
Tagged Bill Granger, Delia Smith, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Puy lentil salad, summer salads, warm salads
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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
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
Tagged courgette recipes, Elizabeth Luard, the Guardian, tian recipes, vegetarian recipes
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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
Tomatoes with cream, basil and cheese
Did I say summer was back? Well it’s not, not unless you count pouring rain as summer. I went to a barbecue on Saturday night and yesterday morning I was thinking of another: you know, salad, some grilled lamb, a … Continue reading
New new potato recipes
Sometimes you can mess too much with a good thing. I love new potatoes. Whether served hot, cold, steamed, boiled, fried or baked, in a salad or on their own, I find their taste both fresh and soothing and, like … Continue reading
Posted in Cookery writers, Gluten-free, One pot, River Cafe Easy, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, Salad recipes, Spring vegetable recipes, Summer recipes, The Cook Shelf, Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged Gordon Ramsay, new potato recipes, potato salad recipes, River Cafe Easy recipes
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