This blog is getting a bit Lent-themed at present, but what do you expect from someone who is involved in three separate church choirs? Anyway, Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) could stand to be celebrated a bit more…
Category: vegetarian
Recipe: Mayonnaise with Roasted Garlic, Tarragon, and Hubris
Hello! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Unfortunately, I forgot, when I started this blog in the slow season at work, that there would come a time of year when I would be drowning in a seemingly endless sea of…
Recipe: Drained Yoghurt (Labneh)
I’m not sure you can call something with exactly one ingredient a recipe, per se, but this is a really useful thing to know about, very easy, and a basis for all sorts of yummy things. This is basically a…
Recipe: Decidedly Un-Roman Cherry, Date and Cacao Balls
I have a friend who is allergic to quite a few things, with nuts and eggs being at the top of the list. She’s always terribly apologetic about this and tells me not to cook for her (fat chance), which…
Recipe: Baked Sweet Potatoes with Hot Pink Coleslaw
This is a recipe I make quite often but have just realised I have never posted on this blog! Since I need it for a collection of recipes I’m making elsewhere, I thought I’d better post it now, even though…
Recipe: Potato Salad with Saffron and Herbs, for Beth
This is another recipe that I promised to pass on more than a year ago. Maybe two years go. Oh dear. Sorry, Beth… Anyway, this recipe’s a real delight – light and herby and tangy, without the creaminess of traditional…
Recipe: Extremely Good Ratatouille
Ratatouille is one of those things that can be really good or really bland, I find. I got it right this time, so I’m writing down what I did before I forget. Also, I have to mention just in passing…
Recipe: Pizza Serafina (Sultana pizza)
I work in a Medical Research Institute, and the nature of research is that people travel a lot for their careers. My current Divisions include scientists and students from France, Germany, Switzerland, Algeria, China, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, The…
Recipe: Vanilla Poached Stone-Fruit
The lights are going out all over the internet, and this blog will be down for twelve hours from midnight local time in support of the SOPA blackout. But before we all resign ourselves to an internet-free world (and how…
Recipe: Lemon Drink for a hot day
This post was going to be called Lemon Drink for Shakira, only then it turned out I had lost my copy of the recipe, but on the bright side, I actually had given it to Shakira already, and she still…