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Category Archives: Winter vegetables
A salad to make your tastebuds, and eyes, sing
The frost is here, the snow about to arrive and although I love that blue-sky-white-ground contrast I’m starting to crave bright colours and tastes. I’m also in need of some winter salad inspiration. My defaults are red cabbage, apple and … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday and Sunday, Salad recipes, Vegetarian recipes, Winter vegetables
Tagged fast recipes, Riverford, salad recipes
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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
Rib-sticking, warming and filling leek, potato and bacon bake
The oven is your friend I wrote yesterday, even when the washing machine is not. This time last year my roof terrace was being ripped up and replaced to stop it leaking into my neighbours’ kitchen (it started the day, … Continue reading
The oven is your friend: roast pork belly with braised red cabbage
If ever there was a week when fast and easy food was required, it’s this one. Most people will be finishing work, or travelling, or writing and buying the last Christmas cards and presents or, poor sods, all of the … Continue reading
Mushrooms with lemon, garlic, parsley and potato purée
I proofread the new edition of Richard Mabey’s Food For Free last week and I was rather in awe of the number of delicious things that can be had for nothing in the British countryside. First published in 1972 years … Continue reading
Posted in Potato recipes, Winter vegetables
Tagged fast recipes, Food for Free, Richard Mabey, Simon Hopkinson
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Baked onions with cream and Parmesan
One of the quickest, and to be fair yummiest, dinners on the planet has to involve buying a ready-roasted chicken from the supermarket rotisserie and eating it with some salad. But, although that’s fine in the summer, in the winter, … Continue reading
Posted in Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries, Winter vegetables
Tagged fast recipes, Nigel Slater, onion recipes
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Really easy pork loin with endive
In Paris the other week Jerry and I spent a lot of time talking about chicory, or endive. We both love it and marvelled at the way its bitter leaves melt when cooked for a long period of time and … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Pork recipes, Simon Hopkinson, Winter vegetables
Tagged chicory recipes, pork recipes, Simon Hopkinson
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Plenty: celeriac, lentil and hazelnut salad
If celeriac is the Cinderella of the vegetable world, then Ottolenghi is surely the fairy godmother. Having just received a copy of his most recent cookery book, I am yet again completely inspired by recipe after recipe that turn mundanities … Continue reading
Posted in Salad recipes, Winter vegetables, Yotam Ottolenghi
Tagged celeriac recipes, ottolenghi
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Caramelised chicory (or endive…) with Serrano ham
This weekend, in Le Villaret, my friend Jerry chose a better main course than me (don’t you hate it when that happens?): rabbit cooked with sage, rose garlic confit and braised chicory. It was so good that it put my … Continue reading
Posted in Fast food fixes, Travels with my appetite, Winter vegetables
Tagged chicory, ottolenghi, Serrano ham
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WTF Do I Eat Tonight? 