This month’s recipes
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Tag Archives: Nigel Slater
How to eat well, whilst working full-time, in five steps
Those who read this blog regularly will know that for most of its existence I have been freelance, working a maximum of four days per week, generally from home. Which has meant that cooking for both the site, and for … Continue reading
Last of the summer salad: Nigel’s plum tabbouleh
The weather is both beautiful and strange right now: beautiful, because it’s so full of sunshine in the daytime that I am inspired to keep wearing my sandals; strange because as soon as the light goes I realise that I … Continue reading
Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes: a weekend short-rib
You may know Tom Kerridge from the telly or, if you’re very lucky, you have eaten at his two-Michelin-starred pub in Marlow. As a non-telly-owning freelancer neither applies; I learnt about him via my lovely friend Debora who, when editing … Continue reading
Posted in Beef recipes, One pot, The new frugal
Tagged BBC Food and Drink, Debora Robertson, Nigel Slater, one-pot, ottolenghi, Peter Gordon, Tom Kerridge
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Nigel Slater’s pig cheeks braised in cider and the joy of thrift
Thrift is a habit of mine all year round but especially at this time of year. Being freelance, it is very useful to know how to survive on very little for months at a time and even when I don’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Pork recipes, Wheat-free
Tagged Nigel Slater, Observer Food Monthly, pig cheeks recipe
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An early spring clean and an old favourite…chicken
Spring cleaning comes early in my home. By the time February is on us, I have usually been through my clothes and books and am itching to find something else to chuck out and/or re-organise. This year, it was the … Continue reading
Posted in Appetite, Chicken recipes, One pot, Wheat-free
Tagged chicken recipes, Frank Spencer, Nigel Slater, spring cleaning
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Bad Seed bread
My mission to bake better and easier bread continues apace and this week I found a magic ingredient. Many moons ago, when I was younger and idiotically naïve, I worked in a bar in Paris, which is probably the most … 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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Nigel’s onion and cheese tart
What is the thing you always have too much of in the fridge/house? Mine is dairy: for example I currently have Parmesan, Cheddar, Brie, and St Agur, cream cheese and Italian mascarpone and butter. Usually I have a pot of … Continue reading
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