This month’s recipes
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Tag Archives: one-pot
Cupboard love: potato, onion and garlic ‘shakshuka’
Shakshuka is a middle-eastern dish popularised, at least in the UK, by Ottolenghi and it is very much worth your time. You can find a recipe for it here. I’m not sure what makes this dish a shakshuka, since it … Continue reading
Diana Henry’s ‘Italian penicillin’, aka orzo with lemon, parsley and Parmesan
Midweek is usually when I run out of food. Leftovers, from anything long-winded made over the weekend, get eaten on Mondays or for lunches, Tuesday is usually cheese on toast after choir rehearsal and then there is Wednesday, home of … Continue reading
Posted in Pasta and gnocchi recipes
Tagged Diana Henry, one-pot, orzo, pasta recipes, vegetarian
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Rachel Roddy’s chicken thighs with citrus and olives
Here’s a tip: buy yourself some chicken thighs, an orange and lemon, some good green olives, a bit of fresh oregano (or dried, if that’s all you can get), salad and potatoes on your way home. Then follow the prep … Continue reading
Perfect midweek one-pot wonder: Ottolenghi’s barley risotto
I didn’t think I’d get the chance to post this any time soon, since summer seemed to have arrived and cooking anything more than one’s own skin felt like far too much faff. But then the floods replaced the sunshine … Continue reading
Posted in One pot, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged midweek recipes, one-pot, onthelist, ottolenghi, vegan, vegetarian
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The Modern Cook: Anna Jones’s baked ricotta with cannellini beans
Christmas is coming and, as is my wont, I like to recommend a few good cookery books for those who are short of ideas, for themselves or for their food-loving friends. I wear several work ‘hats’ and one of them is … Continue reading
Posted in Bean recipes, One pot, Vegetarian recipes
Tagged Anna Jones, Diana Henry, one-pot, vegetarian
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All Sorrows are Less with Bread, but Nigella’s chicken helps too…
I’ve been rather busy for the last six weeks and both cooking, and blogging, have been very low on my agenda. Why? Well, if you have read this blog often, or for a few years, you may remember that about … Continue reading
Posted in Chicken recipes, One pot
Tagged Chicken, discount code, Nigella Lawson, notebooks, one-pot, Poach my Lobster
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Uyen Luu’s pork belly with coconut milk and greens
It’s rare that I make a recipe more than once in a year; I am renowned for reading new ones whilst eating something I have never tried before, and yet there are probably only twenty things that I repeat. Which … Continue reading
Fast, perfect noodles
January whizzed past at a rate of knots this year and barely anything I cooked registered as worth a blog post. Except these, which are possibly my favourite fast-food discovery for a while. Late-night food in my flat barely lifts … Continue reading
‘Forgotten’ lamb for the slowest weekend of the year
If ever there was a weekend for this recipe, it’s this one. The rush and post-prandial fug of Christmas may be lifting, but there’s still an indolence in the air, a desire not to start anything new, or too energetic just … Continue reading
Posted in Lamb recipes
Tagged Burgundy, Iris Apfel, lamb, lamb recipes, one-pot, slow-cooking
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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
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