While my culinary explorations have taken me all over Europe, the Middle East, India and parts of Africa, I’ve never really experimented with food from Asia. And yes, I realise that this is an enormous variety of cuisines to ignore,…
Tag: cucumber
Recipe: Cucumber Noodles with Gazpacho Sauce and Guacamole
I am the worst hostess ever for Pasta Please. No sooner do I set the Make Your Own Pasta challenge, but I acquire a Herman starter and become obsessed with him, and then disappear into my politics blog for a…
Recipe: Miniature Pumpkins stuffed with Spiced Split Pea and Rhubarb Stew
This post is brought to you by Farmhouse Direct – or rather, by the fact that I have been too exhausted of late to contemplate getting up early to go to the market on a Saturday morning. But I can’t…
Recipe: Vegetarian Nacho Salad
This is a recipe I make constantly in hot weather. In fact, I usually double or triple the batch of chilli and freeze it, so that I can just briefly reheat it on hot days and then put together the…
Recipe: Tuna Salad
We’re getting into the really hot days now, when any recipe that doesn’t involve switching on the stove, oven, or even toaster, is a recipe to be valued. And in these post-Christmas weeks, there is a certain urge towards salad,…
Not a proper recipe for not entirely Greek Salad
I think I may have to start a section of this journal for recipes that aren’t proper recipes but which people ask me for. You know, for recipes like pasta bolognese or fruit crumble, which are a handful of this,…