As well as the more worthy intention of getting one’s child to eat fruit, this treat also enables you to have a clear out of any last bits of cupcake sprinkles you are either a) sick of the sight of or [Read on...]
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Today’s dish is Nigella Lawson’s Golden Jubilee Chicken Salad from Forever Summer but shown on Nigella.com in a turkey version. [Read on...] 
Harissa is a north African paste made from chilli, tomato and paprika, you often find it in the world foods aisles of supermarkets. This makes a simple lunch that could be served warm or cold. [Read on...] 
Today’s dish of pesto pasta salad can be served warm or cold, it is ideal for making in bulk at parties, indeed it is my usual savoury contribution to short notice gatherings. If you make it with jarred pesto and keep a vacuum pack of olives in the cupboard and toss in some frozen peas you can make it entirely with store cupboard ingredients. [Read on...] 
My favourite use of tortilla wraps is the quesadilla. You can put anything in a quesadilla, it’s the Mexican answer to toasted sandwich much like Croque Monsieur is for the French. [Read on...] 
It was a perfect low effort dinner for guests – washing the Magimix bowl out probably took the longest and I was free to sip wine whilst it baked in the oven. Better still we had some left over and it was easy to warm some up for Ted the next day. Keep reading after this recipe as I’ve included the one for the chicken we ate with it too. [Read on...] Recipe summarised from Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi [Read on...] 
Today sees the final part of my trilogy of suggestions for chutneys and beetroot picked up from the Baxter’s afternoon tea. Out of the dozen recipes they gave me, I ended up making six of the savoury ones at home to reproduce what I’d seen that afternoon. I didn’t walk away intending to make [Read on...] 
Today, as promised, here are two further dishes with beetroot. The salsa is less aggressive than most, fruity with apple rather than chillied. Scooped up with tortilla chips it’s a more-ish appetiser you could serve before a main meal. The salsa can be made with any kind of beetroot although the bocquerones, hardly a recipe but my own creation, look more aesthetically pleasing using rosebud variety. You could use any kind of pearl mozzarella, my choice was a basil flavour one from the pre-packed deli section at Morrison’s. [Read on...] 
Mackerel salad paired with walnuts and fresh apple slices, there is a lot going on to stop it being too fishy. Try telling that to my neighbour’s cat! [Read on...] My submission to The Gallery for the Cybermummy Photo Competition Theme: “Motherhood” Organising birthday parties was probably my main incentive to have a child. Daydreaming over Nigella Lawson books about having a little helper to stir the batter and plead whether they can lick the bowl out yet. Studying complicated animals made out of food in [Read on...] 
A little snack to keep you all going. The past week has been very frustrating whilst my blog was refusing to pitch up at it’s new host but we got there eventually. I am busy behind the scenes designing my new WordPress theme. The colour scheme is chosen, my graphic designer husband is having [Read on...] 
Today I have been walking round with my kicked puppy face feeling a bit bleugh after having a molar removed unexpectedly yesterday. It seems appropriate therefore to show you my most blah recipe from my Ottolenghi cooking burst over the past few weeks. Maybe I over did my lentils or maybe this is one of those dishes that tastes good but isn’t pretty. [Read on...] 
It wasn’t strictly a master class but I witnessed a whole new way of mixing hummus when visiting Bethany of Dirty Kitchen Secrets a few days ago. Apparently the trick is, when the processor is doing it’s thing, you grab it and rock it back and forth violently on the kitchen work top.I was impressed with the results, Beth’s hummus was a lot smoother than ones I have made in the past. I will post pictures of our food blogging barbecue meet up soon. [Read on...] 
First bash at cake pops part two. Like most things you see up here, these were pulled together in a bit of a hurry using ingredients in the cupboard and my convenient local branch of Spar. I chose lemon to match the left over buttercream in my fridge although actually the quantity used here [Read on...] 
Giggly schoolgirls. They saunter towards me cackling in crushed together cliques, not drunk (well I presume not) but barely able to walk in a straight line. They annoy the hell out of me but at the same time I look back in fond memory that I once was one. At school I was one [Read on...] 
Easter has come and gone, tomorrow my husband will be back at work and I’m on sandwich making duty again. If only I still had a few of these cauliflower fritters knocking about and I’d have another easy lunch ready made for him. My parents in law visited today and we ate a [Read on...] 
Simple and healthy but fabulous cous cous recipe from the first Ottolenghi cookbook. [Read on...] 
Spar was the local supermarket on the Midland’s council estate where I spent my teenage years. With humming fridges and strip lighting, it sold things like Vesta curries and crusty rolls in a giant plastic tube with a hole at the bottom from which you pulled your bread before decanting it into a polythene [Read on...] 
Amongst the dregs of my recent yard sale you will find a reindeer that poops jelly beans, a broken kettle and a heap of Trinny and Susannah books. These are still bound for the charity store or dump but I am seeing other items with new eyes. These terracotta dishes, once sold filled with [Read on...] 
These little guys were the result of my tea time cooking last night. I had some minced turkey to use and wanted something more interesting than a pasta bolognaise sauce. I normally coat my meat balls with flour but in search of an alternative in my cupboard I decided upon polenta. The selection of [Read on...] |
 
 
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