No, I haven’t abandoned this blog! It just turns out that if you take one choir concert, two grant applications and a bunch of grant outcomes, stir in a couple of work events and add an upcoming Shakespeare Feast, you…
Category: gluten-free
Recipe: Vegan Dream Cookies
My alarm went off on Sunday morning just as I was in the middle of dictating a recipe for vegan choc-chip cookies to my Italian cousin Rosangela, whom I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years, and who, moreover, lives in…
Recipe: Balsamic Strawberry Parfait
Strawberries again. What can I say? They are still deliciously cheap. This is one of my favourite desserts. I like to pretend its healthy, but that’s basically a lie. I also don’t measure anything anymore, so this is a bit…
Recipe: Strawberry and Almond Cupcakes with Crystallised Rose Petals
Strawberries are incredibly cheap at the moment – cheaper than I’ve seen them in several years, in fact. And they are also very good, even the supermarket ones. I have no idea why this is, but that isn’t stopping me…
Leftovers for Lunch: Risotto cake
The other reason I haven’t been blogging much recently is that my meals have either been fairly mundane or fairly unsuccessful. This does not lend itself to food blogging as well as you might think. One of the less successful…
Recipe: Macaroni Cheese with chipotle pepper, leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables
Ah, cheesy pasta bake. The best comfort food in the world, not least because you can put practically anything in it successfully. Pasta bakes are my go-to dish when I have a lot of random vegetables in the fridge and…
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: Orange Me Up (Scotty)!
What do you get when you cross orange salad with tiramisu? In my case, you get something a lot like a very orangey, boozy, rich, trifle. Which I choose to call ‘orange me up’, because tiramisu means ‘pick me up’,…
Recipe: Lemon Drink with Orange Flower Water
This is based on the recipe from Abla’s Lebanese Kitchen (speaking of Lebanese restaurants which I really must visit), but it’s inspired by the amazing lemon drink we had at Sabas on Saturday. It’s quite quick to make, and an…
Recipe: Not Really Moussaka
So I had this idea about making vegetarian moussaka with some of the leftovers and veggies I had in the house. And I looked at the Delia vegetarian moussaka, and liked the look of it, so I thought I’d give…