Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
This is just the thing when your tomatoes are not quite ripe, or even a little past their best but you really fancy a delicious tomato salad.
I’m not sure about you, but my children struggle with composed salads – they’re fine with lettuce, cucumber etc.
The weather has been glorious (never a given in the UK, even in the summer!) – perfect for picnics and barbecues.
I’m not sure where the idea came from but I figured why not make a salad out of gnocchi.
3 or 4,5,6 – whatever number of bean varieties you like! In my opinion bean salads benefit from either simplicity or variety and this version wins on the variety front.
What do you think of chickpeas (are they called garbanzo beans in the USA)? I’m a bit unsure – they’re great whizzed up, but so often I find them dry and pasty.
I guess you could say this is a combination of a salade Nicoise and a Greek salad – featuring the punchy flavours of olives, roasted peppers and basil mixed with the fresh vibrancy of …
Why buy a ready-made salad pot when this one tastes far better, can be whipped up in moments and you have the satisfaction of homemade food? Beetroot can certainly divide opinion – when I was…
The sun is shining and it’s starting to feel a little warmer – yippee! After the long dark, cold months there suddenly light and colour, oh what joy! I was intending on cooking another …
You know that phrase used in American burger restaurants ‘take a walk through the garden’? Well, this is the elegant, English equivalent re-imagined onto your plate.
I’ve had a recent hankering for all things olive – I developed a taste for olives only in my mid-twenties and it was definitely a slow burner – starting off with eating one off a …
It’s still Jersey Royal season, and I’m determined to use this wonderful seasonal produce as much as possible, while it’s still at its best.
Do you match wine? I’m no wine expert, although I do certainly enjoy a nice chilled glass of white or rose, but I’ve recently started to notice how some wines compliment and some wines …
We seem to live off salad in the summer – to me there is not much more delightful than an array of stunning salads to dive into on a warm sunny day.
Do you struggle to get your children to eat salad? It used to be a real problem for us – while I could easily live off salad, my children weren’t keen; other than happily wolfing down b…
As you might imagine we have a lot of beans being used in this household at the moment – I’ve got to get the chickpea/bean water from somewhere for all the meringue based recipes! This …
Sometime you just really fancy a flavour combination, and the other day I really hankered after a flavour I haven’t had for many years – roast potatoes with mint sauce.
Fluffy couscous salad, studded with rich antipasti and pistachios (if you can tolerate them) is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
I don’t know about you, but for us June and early July heralds peak picnic and barbecue season.