This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Vegetarian recipes
Curried parsnip soup…no, come back, it’s really delicious and healthy!
This soup could have been designed for January detoxes. Wheat- and dairy-free (well, if you use olive oil for the sautéeing), it is still comfortingly thick and warming without being loaded with fat and potatoes. Yes, the parsnips are starchy … Continue reading
Baked not stirred: risotto the easy way
It’s post-Christmas leftover central in my fridge right now: there’s blue cheese and Cheddar, too many carrots and parsnips for one person to eat, result of a rather ill-fated decision to succumb to red ‘reduced’ stickers and three half-opened pots … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Delicious magazine, rice recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged easy risotto recipe, fast 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
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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Dan Lepard’s pumpkin and cider farls
When you work on something that’s nearly 600 pages long, you are often very enthusiastic about the initial chapters (Bread and Cakes; hurrah), but completely fed up by the time you get to the final ones (Desserts and Supper; boo). … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for leftovers, Short and Sweet, Squash recipes, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Dan Lepard, potato cakes, pumpkin recipes
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Tofu and spring onion omelettes
Tofu is something I rarely eat, except in a Szechuan or Cantonese restaurant, mainly because I have no idea how to cook it. But, having noticed a) that the Chinese supermarket on the corner stocks three different types, b) that … 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
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
WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 