Taking a break from the travel diaries to write down a recipe that has been a bit of a lifesaver for me this year. It tastes like comfort food, it’s full of vegetables, it creates copious leftovers, and it takes…
Recipe: Ratatouille for a ratty week
Tag: tomato
Recipe: Lamb and Chickpea Stew with Tomato, Lemon, Chilli and Oregano
I keep popping my head up for air and then making big promises of a return to regular blogging. And then I get swallowed up by work again, or come down with the plague, or both, and I disappear underwater…
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: Roasted Root Vegetables with Creamy Cannelini Bean Sauce
It’s been very quiet around here. What always happens is that I write a post explaining why it has been very quiet, and apologising, but of course by the time I write such a post, things have self-evidently calmed down…
Recipe: Funghi Alla Pizza! (With bonus Cheat’s Pesto)
I am so very amused by this recipe title, but really, what else could I call it? If I called it ‘Mushroom Pizza’, that would sound as though I was talking about pizza with mushrooms on it. Whereas this, my…
Recipe: Mole Sauce, or something, with I only wish I knew what it goes with, other than bemusement
So I got these tomatilloes at the market, and a whole big box of peppers and chillis and then I had this black chocolate and I had pumpkin seed meal, and all of this pretty much said ‘Mexican’ to me,…
Recipe: Mildly Courageous Potatoes
(NB: still no idea what’s happening with shifting web-hosting, which is making me reluctant to post much here just now, in case I hit exactly the wrong window and it all gets deleted. Sorry. I had no idea it would…
Recipe: Stuffed Pasta Shells with Ricotta, Mint and Feta
Aargh! Here I am, with the best intentions in the world about posting lots of exciting things, and I can’t, because I don’t have time, because I’m too busy cooking! Well, and singing. To give you a brief glimpse of…
Recipe: Vegetarian Chilli
DON’T FORGET TO SOAK YOUR BEANS! (putting them in to soak before you go to work in the morning is fine) This recipe is adapted from one of the Moosewood Cookbooks – I’m afraid I can’t recall which, as I…
Leftovers for Lunch: Roasted Vegetable and Chickpea Salad
I love roast vegetables. About once a fortnight, I will do a huge roast vegetable fest – one enormous tray of potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions and beetroot, cut into chunks and the potato and beetroot parboiled, and then…