Category Archives: RECIPES

Recipe: Crispy Baked Fingerling Potatoes with Sea Salt & Rosemary

These crispy little potato treats can be served as a side dish or appetizer. I prefer the latter and you’ll be amazed at how quickly they’re gobbled up. The combination of rosemary and potatoes is a personal favorite but the … Continue reading

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Recipe – Tamari Baked Trout with Crispy Fennel & Bacon

This is incredibly easy to assemble and creates a wonderful supper for two in less than 30 minutes. If you feel slightly squirmy about being eyeballed by a whole trout (even one that’s been cleaned), use skinned wild salmon fillets … Continue reading

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Recipe: Easy Chicken, Leek & Mushroom Pie

I admit I’ll rarely open a can unless it contains Italian tomatoes, anchovies or dog food – but I succumbed with this recipe, as it looked like a tasty shortcut and I wanted to test out my theory that occasionally … Continue reading

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Recipe: Baked Gnocchi with Spinach & Cheese

If you’re craving comfort food and don’t feel like spending ages putting something together, here’s one of those easy, satisfying and delicious baked dishes that combines store-bought gnocchi, your favorite cheeses and fresh spinach. Vacuum packed gnocchi is available from … Continue reading

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Recipe – Spiced Fig Loaf

This fig loaf is so robustly healthy, so low in fat and so good for you that you might want to do what I do, which is to slather it in butter. Not the prettiest slice of cake but incredibly … Continue reading

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Recipe: Roasted Winter Vegetables with Chestnuts & Stilton

Here’s something tasty that’s a great accompaniment for roast beef or pork and is unusual enough to make your vegetarian guests smile. Roasting root vegetables with *chestnuts then tossing them in a lime dressing with a little crumbled Stilton cheese … Continue reading

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Recipe: Champagne Chicken with Wild Mushrooms & Tarragon

It may seem a little over the top to pop open a bottle of bubbly just to use 1 and 1/4 cups (300ml) of it for poaching chicken breast, so I recommend inviting a friend or two over to help … Continue reading

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Recipe: Rosemary, Lemon & Black Pepper Cookies

These may not be much to look at but they are the most impossibly delicious, fragrant, delicate little cookies and the addition of black pepper creates a lingering warmth. You can always reduce the amount of black pepper if you’re … Continue reading

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Recipe: Chocolate Hazelnut Torte

Just in case you haven’t eaten enough dessert over the past two weeks, here’s another of those wonderful flourless chocolate confections – the combination of toasted hazelnuts and chocolate creates an absolutely heavenly cake with just the right amount of … Continue reading

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Recipe: Wild Mushroom Pâté with Walnuts and Glazed Cranberries

This is my last blog for 2011 – so I wanted to offer something festive looking that isn’t too rich, given the over-stuffed feeling most of us will be suffering from this month – a lovely wild mushroom and walnut … Continue reading

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