This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Vegetarian recipes
Roquefort, walnut and raisin bread
This is a very selfish post. I made this bread yesterday and, despite the fact that it’s not dinner, or a meal, or anything you’re likely to make after work, I am still blogging about it because I want the … Continue reading
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
Polpo’s runner beans with Pecorino and red onion
Runner beans in my world have, until now, always meant two things: a stringy challenge that is like eating dental floss and a constant reminder of my grandparents’ incredible green-fingeredness. Not a summer went by when we didn’t either eat … Continue reading
Unbelievable herb salad with butter and almond dressing
There is a great thrill, to me at least, in discovering not so much a recipe as a tip. So when I recently learnt that the best way to peel ginger was by using a teaspoon (thanks Debora) I was … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Ottolenghi The Cookbook, Salad recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged salad recipes, summer recipes, Yotam Ottolenghi
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Wines of Chile and a Chilean pebre
A few months ago Stella and I did a tasting with Spanish wines; I’m sure you can imagine how much I hated that. It was a great success, particularly since food-matching with Spanish wines is such a joy. And so … Continue reading
Quick blog, quick breakfast: avocado on toast
One of my favourite breakfasts on the planet is pan con tomate, a salty-sweet delight that goes perfectly with good coffee. It might also be my favourite because usually I have it in Granada, and if I’m there I will … Continue reading
Summery socca
You’ve probably never heard of socca. I hadn’t until a year ago when I found it in one, then two, cookery books, both written by Francophile North Americans (David Lebovitz and Dorie Greenspan). It is a chickpea (gram) flour pancake … Continue reading
The Joys of Spain: almendras, tortillas y unas copitas
Recently someone asked me for restaurant recommendations in Andalucía, where I lived for three months in 2009. I had to admit that I had very few, mainly because why, in a land that entertains standing up, not sitting down, at … Continue reading
A new Nigel Slater cookbook and a thrifty risotto
When you live on your own buying herbs is truly a pain in the backside. Especially since the ones I buy are almost always the floppy, go-off-in-three-seconds kind that I can’t grow: flat-leaf parsley, coriander and dill. Whereas thyme, rosemary … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for leftovers, One pot, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Kitchen Diaries II, Nigel Slater, risotto recipes
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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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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 