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With its beautiful deep colour and sweet flavour, beetroot is a versatile vegetable to cook with. The results are always comforting and full of flavour, as well as attractive; thanks to the pink kiss it gives to everything it touches. Having planted an entire pack of beet seeds this year (thanks to an incident on… Continue reading Beetroot, potato and ricotta tart recipe
When October arrives, the days are shortening, a cold wind is creeping into the air and the trees are turning rich shades of gold and red. I can’t help but look forward to cosy evenings, and the promise of the festive season to come. (Probably not helped by the increasingly early sale of Christmas decorations… Continue reading My Top 5 Autumnal Recipes
Fast becoming one of our best-loved midweek dinners, this spicy sausage pasta recipe is quick and easy to pull together, and has great flavour too. A note on sausages: For this recipe, I use our favourite thick spicy sausages from our local butcher, but you could use any high meat content sausages, or vegetarian ones… Continue reading Quick and Easy Spicy Sausage Pasta Recipe
This recipe is perfect to throw together quickly and leave to do its thing while you do yours. Vegetables soak up all of the delicious flavours from the spices, and it is perfect served with rice, couscous or flatbreads. I've used courgettes and peppers here, but feel free to swap in your favourite veggies. And… Continue reading Easy Vegetable Tagine Recipe
I love meals where I can have a 'bit of everything' on one plate, creating a kind of mini buffet salad plate with different flavours, colours and textures. It's a great way to eat plenty of healthy veggies and grains, and works just as well as a salad box for lunch as it does a… Continue reading Build-your-own dinners and my Pink Slaw recipe
Pumpkin and squash soups have always been one of my favourite flavours of soup, and I love the combination of spices with the sweet taste of squash. In autumn, when squash are at their best and in season, this is the perfect recipe to celebrate them! I love a thick, hearty blended soup, but you… Continue reading Fiery Squash Soup Recipe
With lots of late summer tomatoes ripening in my garden, there are few things I love to do with them more than to roast them and make a delicious warming tomato soup. Roasting the vegetables in this recipe gives them a sweeter, more intense flavour, and helps to make this soup a rich comforting treat!… Continue reading Roasted Tomato and Pepper Soup Recipe
This recipe was actually created as a result of putting together 2 others that I love, and in all honesty, was a bit of an experiment. The starting point was a pack of organic stewing steak destined for a tagine served with couscous and pomegranate seeds. Sounds good, right? The only problem was that when… Continue reading Spiced slow-cooked beef with a saffron rice crust recipe
We've all been there. You go to get the bread out to make a soft sandwich, or even a slice of toast, and are faced with a sorry, hard lump of stale bread, which really isn't good for anything. Except, it's absolutely perfect, for making homemade croutons. It's already started drying out, so it's really… Continue reading Crunchy, herby croutons recipe
Roast dinners are simple, but comforting. The smell of roast meat cooking makes me think of family dinners around a table crowded with dishes of potatoes and veg ready for us to help ourselves. Having a roast has always been a Sunday tradition in my family, and even though I no longer live with my… Continue reading Cook the perfect roast potatoes every time with this easy recipe!