Okay, today I have a dish for you that includes two vegetables that are right on trendy. Let’s begin with cauliflower. In recent years we have gone mad for it. Seared and served as steaks, riced or pureed, all delicious. However here I have prepared Charred Hispi Cabbage with Cauliflower, Miso Purée, it’s full of…
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Coconut and Spinach Dhal
Do you have a dish in your repertoire that instantly warms and satisfies in the winter months…well this is mine. Coconut & Spinach Dhal: yellow split peas, green or brown lentils, coconut milk, plenty of aromatic spices and heaps of fresh spinach. A dish that only improves the next day. I like to use yellow…
Caramelised Onion Tart
Caramelised Onion Tart My first blog post of 2022! With plenty of food still to use up from Christmas I thought I’d kick off with a recipe utilising just store cupboard ingredients. Caramelised Onion Tart, simple as it is, ticks all the boxes on flavour. Buttery, sweet onions cooked slowly with a few cloves of…
Swedish Fishballs – Fiskbullar
Here it is, December, I don’t know about you but this year has flown by. Let’s hope for a much happier festive season with our friends and family at the end of the month. Not a festive dish exactly, and quite different from my recipe for Smoked Haddock Fishcakes with Lemon Butter Sauce. However if…
Aromatic Sweet Pickled Beetroot
I cannot remember a day there wasn’t a bunch of beetroot picked from the vegetable patch this summer. I know I should feel happy and grateful for them, versatile as they are in salads, hummus and grated into a chocolate cake. Not forgetting the deep green leaves, with their magenta veins, they make possibly the…
Vegetarian Mushroom Stuffed Peppers
Today I’ve got a bright, colourful and versatile meal for your next lunch or light dinnertime, brimming with flavour, but which is completely customisable to suit what you’ve got in your fridge or larder. This Vegetarian Mushroom Stuffed Pepper recipe came about a few months back, when the country was in total lockdown. Only wanting…
Healthy New Potato Salad with Fresh Peas
We have just returned from the most relaxing week in Cornwall. Eating out, walking with our dogs, exploring some of our old favourite haunts and dealing with the odd unexpected heavy downpour of rain. You can always rely on very varied weather in the west country. On the days where we stayed at home, we…
Smörgåstårta (Swedish Sandwich Cake)
Swedish Midsummer’s Eve falls on 25th June this year. Midsommar is the purest celebration of the summer solstice, involving flowers in your hair, dancing around a maypole and a never-ending supply of pickled herring, crispbread, beer and aquavit (snaps). As it’s not possible to spend it in Stockholm this summer, we’ll be celebrating in style…
Wild Garlic & Nettle Tart
Wild Garlic and Nettle Tart – a wholegrain pastry base, with a creamy, savoury custard filling and foraged greens. As regular readers may have noticed, I go through obsessive periods with either certain dishes or ingredients. So, you’ll be unsurprised to see that you’ve had two different wild garlic recipes from me recently. However, unlike…
Stuffed Aubergine with Olive Tapenade
While in the summer there are a whole load of fresh, light and bright dinner options available, having something comforting and imaginative in a cold spring can be harder. A relatively quick and delicious meal I’ve been enjoying recently is stuffed and roasted aubergine. Served hot or warm, the spongy flesh roasts up beautifully into…
