This month’s recipes
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Category Archives: Wheat-free
My favourite winter soup recipe: Locatelli’s chickpea and sage
Once you’ve made a soup with the classic base of carrots, celery and onions, it’s very difficult to go back to any other style. I love a creamy soup, and a spicy one but this base makes something better, something … Continue reading
Posted in Made in Italy, Soup recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged chickpea recipes, Giorgio Locatelli, winter soup recipes
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Poached chicken with rice and ginger and spring onion oil
I seem to be a little obsessed with two things right now: poaching meat and the flavours of spring onions, coriander, ginger and garlic. That’s possibly because poaching is simple yet, when you combine it with such herbs and spices, … Continue reading
Quick braised chicory with cheese and ham
The first time I ate chicory (sometimes known as endive) it was braised for a few hours, wrapped in ham, covered in béchamel, sprinkled with grated cheese and then baked for another 30 minutes. It was also made by someone … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Wheat-free, Winter vegetables
Tagged cheese recipes, chicory recipes, endive, Judith Jones, Julia Child
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Celeriac and apple soup and Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook
Although I am sure that a) if there was never another cookbook published, we would have plenty of recipes for several millennia, that, b) a bit like stories, there are only so many techniques and recipes that anyone can invent, … Continue reading
Dorie Greenspan’s Vietnamese chicken soup
Fed up with all that heavy food? Yes, me too a bit. Probably that second, or was it third?, slice of blue cheese tart that did it. This gorgeous Vietnamese soup is the perfect antidote to all of that buttery, … Continue reading
Posted in Around My French Table, Dorie Greenspan, Soup recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged Dorie Greenspan, Vietnamese recipes
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Back to school baked Vacherin recipe
Back to school…could they be the three most hated words in the English language? And why is it that, more than twenty-five years after my last BTS experience, the return to work in January still resonates with the impending horror … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese recipes, Fast food fixes, One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged Back to school, melted cheese recipes, Mont d'Or, Vacherin
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An easy pre-Christmas pad Thai for the chronically disorganised
I have my Twiglets and my Mini Cheddars. I have stocked up on Roka Cheese Crispies and some delectable smoked duck. I even have a large tin of Quality Street. However, I seem to have missed the Wine Society’s Christmas … Continue reading
Mussels with cider and cream
Fast food has such a bad rap but there are some fast foods that are a lot more worthwhile than others. Some are not really food at all (anything in a cardboard box that has been warmed up in a … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, One pot, Seafood recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged fast food ideas, mussel 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
Tom kha kai: spicy coconut soup
On the blackboard in my kitchen there is a list. I call it my ‘eat up’ list because it details most of the perishables in my fridge (I’m not so anal as to list butter and milk…). I use it … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, Soup recipes, Spicy recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged coconut soup, easy Thai recipes, Thai soup
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 