This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Vegetarian recipes
So good I made it twice: Sweet Paul’s lemon feta dip
I’ve not been very hungry for the last week, what with heat, jet-lag and some god-awful infection that just won’t let go. But every so often, when the temperature drops and the coughing stops, I think of what I might … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, Salsa and sauce recipes, Vegetarian recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged feta recipes, lemon recipes, summer dips, Sweet Paul
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Fried eggs with chilli, garlic yogurt and sage
Monday nights often call for a fast solution and there is nothing faster than an egg or two. On toast, in an omelette, scrambled…every variation is wonderfully quick but all a bit, well, samey. Every time I cook a plain … Continue reading
Posted in Egg recipes, Skye Gyngell, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged egg recipes, Petersham nurseries
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Butternut squash, puy lentil, feta and walnut salad
Half a roasted butternut squash in the fridge needs eating, so I dress it up with three of my other favourite flavours: feta, toasted walnuts and puy lentils. Oh and some caramelised red onion too. This is very much a … Continue reading
Riverford’s butternut squash and sage risotto
I recently had dinner with a friend who declared that she could never cook risotto properly. And, as we discussed the different methods at the table two more of us disagreed on the timings involved, on the reason for the … Continue reading
Making something out of nothing: Glamorgan sausages
How often do you have an empty fridge, or an almost empty one? Apart from when you move house that is? I used to be really happy when mine was bursting with food but that has changed: perhaps because I’m … Continue reading
Coriander mojo
Mojo in English means an amulet, charm or magic spell, or the ability to cast such a spell. But in Spanish, mojar is to soak or dip so a mojo, at least in the Canary Islands, is a dip, like … Continue reading
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Tagged sauce recipes, Spanish recipes
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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
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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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
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