Salads

Aduki / Azuki Bean Salad

January 23, 2012

I made this salad for my lunch today. I was reminded yesterday reading Carl’s post on his vegetarian haggis how good aduki beans are, they’re the puy lentil of the bean world for me. They’re flavoursome, the taste reminds me of black-eye beans/peas and being so small they give you a lovely texture and if [...]

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Fish Stuffed with Herbs

August 13, 2011

This is the sort of meal I like to cook in any given evening, easy to prepare and packs so much flavour which I can change depending on my whim on the day. I came across these long fillets of hake, quite unusual where I live, as soon as I spotted them I started to [...]

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Lemon & Thyme Chicken

July 19, 2010

I have made this recently for friend’s coming over for lunch, it’s so simple to put together, packs so much flavour but no effort whatsoever. I have thyme growing in pots on the patio and I always have a lemon, there would be something amiss in my kitchen if I didn’t have a lemon. [...]

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Very Quick Coronation Chicken

June 13, 2010

I make my Coronation Chicken dairy-free but I remember the original recipe that I took this idea from had some crème fraîche (or substitute sour cream) which will make it even creamier. This is a very quick version but it doesn’t mean it’s somehow inferior to one that you spent time making your own spice [...]

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Aubergine (Eggplant), Tomato and Herb Salad

May 23, 2010

I came home with the 2 yr old from shopping at the supermarket…you see…what you have to understand is this was the third time I had been to the supermarket with her in the same week because if you don’t already know… a routine shopping trip turns into major negotiations of, ‘…no I don’t what [...]

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Gabriela’s Pesto – Two Ingredients

April 26, 2010

In my house I live two separate lives with regards to food. One part of my life is the food I like to cook, experiment, share and maybe post about and then there’s the second side of my food life where I need to feed as best as I can a child with multiple-food allergies. [...]

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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010

This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’. This was a one of very two [...]

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Lightly Spiced Spinach with Apricots

March 14, 2010

Some dishes have personal memories attached to them and this is one of them. About two years into our relationship Bikerboy decided to cook Valentine’s dinner for me, he had picked out a recipe from the recently bought Cinnamon Club cookery book and saw a picture of a cylinder shaped breast of chicken stuffed with [...]

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Broad Bean & Lentil Salad

December 5, 2009

This post first appeared in my old blog 11th June 09. These were the first broad beans I’ve encountered this year and off I went with two packs thinking how best to cook them whilst fighting with my trolley around the supermarket. You do not receive a lot of change from your broad bean pods [...]

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