Due to a combination of being on holidays and extreme laziness, I have been very neglectful of the poor blog. I plan to put that right. Starting with this recipe for a fresh, tasty guacamole.
Category: Tomato
Grilled Polenta with Caprese Salad
This is a really beautiful, simple dish, ideal for the summer months. For those unfamiliar with polenta, it is basically cornmeal cooked like porridge. I have to hold my hands up here, I’m not a big fan of polenta. Well not the of the wet variety anyway. However, let that polenta cool and set, […]
Ras el Hanout Chicken Wraps with Yoghurt Sauce
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.”
Tomato Salad with Pomegranate Molasses
I may have already mentioned (gushed!) that I bought Sabrina Ghayour’s Persiana last week. I have already made 3 recipes from it and loved each of them. I’m blogging this as it is so simple, tasty and perfect for the recent heatwave we’ve had. Well, 2 sunny days counts as a heatwave in Ireland, doesn’t […]
Eggs in Purgatory
I was recently watching reruns of Nigellissima and Nigella was making this dish. I realised it was quite a while since I had made it. So I vowed to put that right and made it the following evening.
Crispy Chicken Cutlets
This recipe from is from Nigella’s Kitchen. I pretty much use the original recipe without any changes but as it is not online I thought I would share it.
Lemon Spaghetti
… or to give it it’s proper title, Spaghetti al Limone.
DIY Pot Noodles
I have come across this recipe a few times on various blogs and boards but when The Guardian recently put this article on Pinterest I thought I’d give it a go myself. I swore I would bring my lunch to work more often and I think I could count on one hand the amount of […]