Category Recipes
Geetie’s dark chocolate pots
If you haven’t heard of Geetie Singh, well, she’s pretty much a legend on the UK organic food circuit. She’s like the lone ranger of organic restaurant eating – not only is she a female restaurateur (in a very male-dominated trade) but she founded and still runs the UK’s only existing Soil Association-certified gastropub: The […]
Roasted tomato soup
I’m hooked on the new BBC cookery programme The Delicious Miss Dahl, where the jaw-droppingly beautiful Sophie Dahl cooks up rustic dishes and bats her big cartoon eyes at us over the hob of a very gorgeous kitchen* decorated with shabby chic. Sometimes she goes a bit twee and wistful, reciting poetry while gazing out […]
Fennel and pink grapefruit salad
I’m currently whipping through the sublime second series of Mad Men on DVD. I love everything about it, and the attention to 1950s and 1960s detail is lush. But the food you see the characters eating definitely makes me feel grateful to be living in the Teenies (is that what we’re meant to be calling […]
Beetroot recipe horror!
Too often I’m racked with guilt about food waste. I hate throwing anything away. Even if it means making weird stir fries with 87 types of vegetables in them. So, in anticipation of N and I going on holiday soon, I’ve been preoccupied with using everything up in the fridge that could go off. Which […]
Spicy lentil dhal
Some nights when I’m traipsing home from work in the dark and the rain, I know exactly what I want for dinner: a comforting spicy bowl of creamy lentil dhal. Perfect for curling up on the sofa with and watching some trashy TV. And when you fry the spices, your house will smell amazing! You […]
Pear, maple and almond cake
Here is the recipe of the pear cake I made last weekend – the one that sent me into a rage because the River Cottage recipe I was using as a guideline was wrong. Anyway, after all the angst and swearing, the resulting amended version was absolutely bloody delicious with a really buttery sweetness and […]
Get some preservation!
Photo: courtesy of Oliver Rowe of Konstam So the autumn leaves are whipping about your feet, the weather’s gone moody…what to do? Stay at home, bolt the door and hide under a pile of blankets? Or perhaps make some nice tasty preserves? I’ve managed to snaffle a couple of killer recipes from Konstam and The […]
Smoky butterbean dip & pitta chips
This is a really easy-to-make and delicious dip that is a life saver if you’ve got people piling round in 10 minutes, and haven’t had time to run out and buy some houmous. Not that this is like houmous at all: it’s a butterbean dip flavoured with lemon and smoky paprika. It’s really moreish and […]
Potato and parsley bake
I love the Two Fat Ladies cookery show. Although Jennifer Paterson is sadly dead, the shows are still re-run on the Good Food channel. What could be better than the sight of Clarissa Dickson Wright pouring goose fat, clotted cream and lard into most of the recipes as she rants about the virtues of hunting, […]
Posh Rasperry Jelly
No, not the retro stuff made from cubes out of a pack, this is a POSH raspberry jelly made with generous quantities of the real fruit. It’s tangy, but not mouth-puckeringly sour, and is MAGIC served up with a shortbread biscuit and a ball of vanilla ice cream on the side. You get all these […]
Toast & Butter 