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 –…
Category: Recipes
Recipe: Garlic Fudge
Many years ago, I purchased a cookbook called Garlic, Garlic, Garlic!. I purchased it pretty much for the sake of one recipe, garlic fudge. I figured that garlic fudge was not a recipe I was going to find anywhere else,…
Recipe: Bean and Pepper Tacos
This is one of my standbys when I’m tired and feeling unimaginative. It was especially fabulous when I gave up meat for Lent this year, and promptly regretted it because I couldn’t cope with long work days and then being…
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…
Recipe: Obscenely Decadent Chocolate and Cherry Brownies
These are lightly adapted from a recipe in Paul Young’s book, Adventures in Chocolate, which is, incidentally, a completely and gloriously insane book containing recipes for things like marmite truffles and garlic ganache. Actually, I really need to try the…
Recipe: Lemon Meringue Sponge Cake
This is the aforementioned six-hour cake. It might take less time if I were truly and reliably competent at either Genoise sponge, meringue, or lemon curd (and actually, these days, I have it down to about five hours, assuming nothing…
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: Date and Pistachio Petits Fours (Mersu)
Inspired by The Silk Road Gourmet’s Mesopotamian Cookoff, I went a little crazy in the kitchen today and made not one, not two, but three versions of Mersu. The sum of the Mersu recipe was “Ingredients: dates and pistachios”. The…
Recipe: Blood orange curd cheesecake with raspberries
This recipe started as a Women’s Weekly recipe for Lemon Curd Cheesecake. However, by the time I actually got to serving this recipe, I think it only had three ingredients in common with the original – eggs, butter and cream…
Review: Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison’s Kitchen, by Deborah Madison, of course
Now that you’ve all recovered from yesterday’s shocking revelations, I thought I’d write about another much-loved book, which I happened to cook from last night (the mushroom, burghul and nut burgers, if you are interested, and very nice they are,…