I was watching Masterchef Australia recently – I’m obsessed! – when the contestants had to make grapes the star ingredient of a dish. It made me realise that I don’t cook enough with grapes. I love them when they are roasted, like in this Roasted Grapes with Feta and Walnuts.
Lamb Tagine is one of those dishes I have been trying to perfect over the years. I love lamb and I love spice, so it should be a no brainer really, I should love making Lamb Tagine. Sadly, any recipe I have tried in the past has let me down.
If you indulged in last weeks chocolate trifle and feel a little guilty, this salad is the perfect way to ease your mind! It is seasonal, fresh, light but also very tasty!
Last week I read two recipes that caught my eye and I decided to experiment with them. One was the BBQ Aubergine with Jewelled Rice Salad from Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich of Honey and Co on the Financial Times – recipe here (paywall). The other was Cauliflower and Chickpea Salad from Nigella’s new book […]
I recently had a crispy duck salad in a local restaurant, Clancy’s and I was mad to try to make something similar at home. It was proper crispy, shredded duck. I was under strict instructions when making this to make sure it was really crispy. Got that? Crispy.
In his book Jerusalem, Ottolenghi describes Ras el hanout as “a spice blend brought to Jerusalem by North African Jews consisting of mainly sweet and hot spices, toasted and ground. There isn’t one definitive recipe, every spice shop in North Africa…has its own ‘flagship’ spice blend with a typical set of secret components.”
Look how pretty this is! I like nothing better than a good curry. I have one at least once a week. Unfortunately, it’s not normally a healthy choice. This recipe however, might just change that. It is such a tasty meal and it’s adapted from Gizzi Erskine’s Bollywood Biriyani in Skinny Weeks & Weekend Feasts […]
I hope everyone reading this has had as nice a Christmas as I did!