When Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem was first published the first recipe I tried was his Lamb Shawarma. The recipe has been widely praised. Sadly, I was left disappointed. I know this is almost blasphemous to say, but I felt there were so many spices which did all smell delicious, and such a long cooking time that […]
This is another bandwagon that I am shamelessy jumping on! Nearly all healthy eating websites are promoting this as a convenient breakfast. I don’t think they’d approve of my version using so much Greek yogurt though. Basically, overnight oats are 1 part oats mixed with 1 part liquid and left to soak overnight in the […]
Purists look away now, I had run out of vanilla ice cream so I used cookie dough ice cream! It works 🙂 I nearly forgot to post a chocolate recipe for April! So this one is getting in by the skin of it’s teeth.
Asparagus is in season right now. While I think it can be over-hyped, I do think it kind of marks a lighter way of eating as we head into the Summer. It is very easy to whip up a simple, fresh dish with this ingredient.
In Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, he describes Dukkah as “An Egyptian aromatic seed and nut mix”. It is this and so much more. I was first introduced to it a couple of years ago in Kai restaurant in Galway. There was served as a coating to lamb and I was not too sure how much nuts could […]
Last September I won a copy of Dinner by Domini Kemp after entering a competition on Twitter run by Keith Mahon of TheTaste.ie. The Taste is a great online magazine dedicated to Irish food culture with some fab offers so well worth checking out. Why it has taken me this long to post a recipe […]
I’m reblogging this recipe as it’s one of the original posts on the site and some of you may have missed it. I made a big batch of this at the weekend to go with other salads and it went down very well. A perfect salad for the warm weather, while it lasts…….
For some reason I can’t keep tomatoes fresh at the moment. Because of this I had a glut of them that were looking a bit overripe. Instead of making Tomato Soup like I normally would, I decided to try this recipe from Diana Henry’s A Change of Appetite for brunch at the weekend. It is […]
