This cake is incredibly easy to make, and really, really lemony – it verges on being too sour, in fact, which may possibly have something to do with the fact that I didn’t follow the recipe and also to do…
Category: everyday cooking
Recipe: A Stew for Spring
This is lightly adapted from a recipe in Jack Bishop’s book The Complete Italian Vegetarian. Mostly, I adapted it by screwing it up. But you don’t need to do that part. The rest of the adaptation was a matter of…
Recipe: Quick Rhubarb Crumble for Spring
I really want to write about – and cook – asparagus, because it’s Spring now, and I’m absolutely itching to get to the market on Sunday and see if they have asparagus yet. I won’t buy asparagus until I find…
Just some domestic cooking…
I’m feeling very virtuous today, cooking-wise. I have a big pot of vegetarian chilli simmering, which will be tonight’s dinner as well as being numerous dinners to come. My freezer has been getting a bit depleted of late, but this…
Recipe: Smoked trout, sun-dried tomato and leek pasta bake
This is probably not the kindest thing to do to smoked trout, but Andrew is very anti-fish, so if I want to cook fishy things, I have to disguise them a bit. And it was lovely – the smokey trout…
Recipe: Primary Colour Marble Cake
The local garden shop has mutated into a local garden shop that also sells really interesting obscure organic ingredients. Excellent. One of their interesting obscure ingredients was strawberry powder, which is freeze-dried strawberries ground into a powder. It’s lovely –…
Recipe: Rosemary Chicken Skewers with Fruity Pilaf
I wanted to do something beautiful with those rosemary branches. That’s pretty much all the commentary this gets, because that was the entire inspiration for this meal. This recipe is truly mine – I’ve made jewelled pilafs to a number…
Being domestic
I’m afraid my food thoughts aren’t very inspiring this weekend. I’ve been pottering around being domestic and organised, getting things together for the week ahead at work.
Recipe: One step up from takeaway
Today is the first day of my holidays, which means that I am exhausted to the point that I spent about ten minutes wandering around the kitchen at lunchtime today dithering about how to make a salad and continually opening…
Recipe: Bulgur Wheat and Mushroom Burgers
I’ve been meaning for a while to post a recipe from Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison’s Kitchen, to go with the review I wrote. It’s actually very hard to choose just one, but these burgers are are a recipe I…