Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free, soya-free, sesame-free, can be gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan Makes 4 generous servings
Yet more salads! I’ve always had a fondness of potato salad that I can’t really explain – gloopy cold potatoes anyone? This version can be easily made either dairy and egg free or…
No, not made of Giraffes, just from the restaurant chain! We had an unusual Easter Sunday… A very early morning Easter egg hunt (luckily the Easter Bunny had visited) followed by a day out wi…
The sunshine in the last couple of days has had my thought turning to salads, and this one is a particular favourite.
Here’s my first recipe inspired by a recipe in my lovely new Ottolenghi cookbook.
This sweet and tangy bean salad knocks the socks off any shop bought (or horrors of horrors, tinned) offering.
The next few days will be spent recovering from the festival (I know it was only one night but we made the critical mistake of forgetting it gets extremely cold at 3am, and so didn’t really s…
It’s the 4th July and in honour of my American readers I’ve decided to give a Brit’s take on a classic American meal – dairy, egg and nut-free of course.
It’s the 14th July, Bastille Day in France so a French lunch was needed.
This is a stone-cold classic French vinaigrette (I did learn the recipe at Le Cordon Bleu after all) and it will bring most salads to life.
It’s still wet and miserable and feels more like October than July, so soup seemed more appropriate than salads and picnics.
I find it really hard to get my children to eat salads – they’re fine with salad vegetables on their own, but combine or dress them and then they’re not keen.
Well we’re just back from a fantastic holiday in the South of France featuring beach fun in the Languedoc and then the incredibly wild and beautiful scenery of the Cévennes and Aveyron.
I absolutely love tomatoes, but even so, a tasteless under-ripe specimen is a challenge to make into a delectable meal.
This recipe is a bit of an amalgamation between Yotam Ottolenghi’s Green Couscous and my Guaranteed Fluffy Couscous Salad.
I love parsley – it’s so versatile but can often be overlooked by more flamboyant herbs.
It’s all very well starting the New Year with vibrant super food salads, but dark, cold January also requires some comfort foods.