Category Archives: Vegetables / Vegetarian

Recipe: Beet Salad with Yoghurt, Garlic & Caraway Seeds

This Middle-Eastern inspired recipe is a lovely way to prepare oven baked beets (aka beetroot, in the UK). You could make this with purchased cooked beets but it won’t taste anywhere near as good. Oven baking beets results in a … Continue reading

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Recipe – Hot Halloumi Cheese with Cilantro, Lime & Capers

I think of halloumi as ‘the squeaky cheese’; only you’ll hear it but it definitely squeaks a bit while you’re chewing. If you’re unfamiliar with halloumi, it originates from Cyprus where it was traditionally made from unpasteurized sheep and goat … Continue reading

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Recipe: Barbecued Bananas with Orange, Cinnamon, Vanilla & Mint

Having just returned from my UK trip armed with tales of gathering elderflowers at dawn (well not exactly dawn; sunrise is at 4am over there at the moment); salade nicoise draped with fresh anchovies; spectacular fish and chips – and … Continue reading

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Recipe: Roasted New Potatoes with Anchovies, Garlic & Parsley

I’m happy to bet that even anchovy-haters will love this. Anchovies eaten on their own (although I don’t know of anyone who would eat them straight from the can) are intensely salty and fishy but once they’ve been incorporated into … Continue reading

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Recipe: Summer Tart of Roasted Tomatoes, Goat Cheese & Pesto

This simple summer tart of ripe tomatoes, fresh basil pesto and mild goat cheese baked in a puff pastry case, is absolutely delicious  – and as the pastry in question is the ready made sort that you buy frozen, it’s … Continue reading

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Recipe: Warm Potato Salad with Smoked Bacon, Shallots & Sherry Vinegar

Many potato salad recipes use mayonnaise to hold everything together and some are really very good, especially those with fennel or celery mixed in to give it a nice contrasting crunch. However, this version is one of my favorites and … Continue reading

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Recipe – Mushrooms with Fennel & Red Wine

As a confirmed fungi-phile, I’m always looking for different ways to incorporate them into a dish. Faced with a huge container of brown button mushrooms at my disposal the other day, I made this delicious and mysteriously dark-looking appetizer with … Continue reading

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Recipe: Truffle Parmesan Popcorn

This is snacking heaven! Popcorn is always fun to eat; it’s high in fiber and depending on what you put on it, it becomes a gourmet treat for when your friends drop by… not that you’ll need an excuse to … Continue reading

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Recipe – Truffled Mac ‘n Cheese with Wild Mushrooms & Artichoke Hearts

I recently bought a cookbook that aimed to include highly nutritious ‘superfoods’ in each recipe – the book contained some interesting ideas and one in particular caught my eye; this one in fact. Unfortunately, the recipe in question contained errors … Continue reading

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Recipe – Sticky Spiced Blood Oranges

Wandering around my local supermarket the other day I spied a bag of glorious little blood oranges and as they’re only in season occasionally, I had to grab them. The fragrance and deep ruby color of their juice is absolutely … Continue reading

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