This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Summer recipes
The importance of a lemon zester and courgette, lemon, basil and Parmesan salad
What is the one piece of kit that you can’t be without, not in general circumstances but if you are facing the seasonal challenge of a holiday in a rented house? The clichéd response is ‘a good knife’. But doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, One pot, Salad recipes, Summer recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged courgette recipes, salad recipes, Southwold, Trasierra
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A green salad with garlic and tuna…inspired by Pamplona
A long time ago a French friend told me that the best, and least offensive, way to add a hint of garlic to a salad was to rub a raw clove or two round the salad bowl before adding all … Continue reading
Posted in Salad recipes, Summer recipes, Travels with my appetite
Tagged green salad, Ortiz tuna, Spanish food, tuna salad
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Vietnamese salad recipe
The good news, at least as far as I’m concerned, is that the bug is starting to lose its grip. The bad news is so is the good weather. Blue sky has given way to grey clouds, a drop of … Continue reading
Ottolenghi’s ‘double’ couscous salad
Couscous is something I have always loved, ever since I first tried it in France as a teenager. Along with gazpacho, a vaguely original attempt at the whole shebang (veg, meat, harissa and semoule) was one of the first things … Continue reading
Summer’s end: roasting the tomato glut
Apparently this has been the coolest UK summer since 1993 though, weren’t we lucky, even if it was wetter than 2010 it wasn’t as wet as 2007, 2008 or 2009…I am not yet in socks every day, nor is the … Continue reading
Summer roast potatoes
New potatoes are de rigueur throughout the warmer months but as the weather starts to turn the thought of a proper roast potato, crunchy and dipped in gravy, makes even the autumn an inviting prospect. But new potatoes don’t mind … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Potato recipes, Summer recipes
Tagged new potato recipes, summer recipes
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Peter Gordon’s gnocchi with feta and tomato sauce
Salad was my plan today, or something about how to build one with different elements. But oh my, the weather; if it rains much more I think the colour might be washed out of the sky for good. I’m sitting … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Chefs, Cook at home with Peter Gordon, Cookery writers, Fast food fixes, Pasta and gnocchi recipes, Peter Gordon, Peter Gordon, Summer recipes, The Cook Shelf, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged feta recipes, gnocchi recipes, Marks and Spencer, pasta recipes, Peter Gordon, summer recipes
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Ottolenghi’s grilled mackerel with pesto and courgettes
Doesn’t that mackerel look astonishing? It was such a beautiful lilac pink that it seemed a shame to cook it but, well, needs must when the stomach grumbles. I saw this recipe on the Guardian’s site at the weekend and … Continue reading
Roasted tomato, garlic and goat’s cheese tart
Tons of tomatoes, a bit of forgotten puff pastry left over from last week’s anchovy tart and plenty of herbs on the balcony made me start thinking about another tart. And it seems I’m not the only one: both David … Continue reading
Bill Granger’s Greek salad with halloumi
Bill Granger again? Halloumi again? Yes, and I’m not going to apologise because it won’t be long, at least in the UK where it already feels like autumn, before tastes like this seem like a distant memory. This is a delicious mini-tweak to … Continue reading
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