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Salsa Verde
Friday evening suppers have to be easy as I come home late from the stables. Because it’s Friday, the tradition is that it should be fish or vegetarian. Last Friday I bought two excellent tuna steaks from Tesco. The fish monger kindly wrapped them with an ice pack (not that the interior of my old…
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Blood orange marmalade
My favourite marmalade. It is made in exactly the same way as the Seville and Bergamot Marmalade but the result is much sweeter. As every part of the fruit, including the peel, is used, it is important that it should be organic. 9 blood oranges 2 Seville oranges 2 lemons 1 pink grapefruit. Approx 1.2…
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Coriander and Peanut Chutney
Perfect for a damp Monday’s supper to accompany the remains of a roast chicken and a baked potato. Coriander and Peanut Chutney 2 generous handfuls of fresh coriander A small piece (1.25 cm) fresh ginger 2 green chillies 2 tbsp roasted unsalted peanuts 1-2 tsp caster sugar Juice of one lemon Salt Wash and chop…
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Easter Biscuits
Of course, there are Easter traditions all round the world. My friend Trish recently gave me a packet of mahlep seeds which, in Greece, are used together with a resin called mastic (pistacia lentiscus) to flavour an Easter bread. Here we use cassia oil to flavour Easter biscuits. There is some thought that Easter biscuits…
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Pancakes
Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday and time for pancakes. With the addition of Cointreau we turned them into Crêpes Suzette. Enough batter was left over to have pancakes with lemon and sugar for breakfast this morning. A great treat from my childhood were my mother’s pancakes; she used to add currants to hers but we just…
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Seville and Bergamot Marmalade
Things come in waves. One day, there were the Hairy Bikers on television tasting bergamots in Italy and then I find bergamots on sale in my local greengrocers and again in Waitrose. Nigella Lawson too has found bergamots. In At My Table, her latest book, she writes, ‘(bergamont) has a mild, almost sweet heat and…
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Roasted Sweet Potato and Squash
I have more than one recipe using roasted sweet potato and coriander. This is my favourite. We had it on Sunday for lunch, served with a rack of lamb. Aleppo chillies are a great discovery – and not just my find but also Nigella Lawson’s as mentioned in The Times (18 January 2018). She writes,…
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Warm salad of spiced kale,wheat and Puy lentils
It has been the winter of lentils. I love them in soups, Mujaddara (a very favourite recipe already given) and salads. Cumin has been my favourite spice – so this dish was bound to please. Big bags of kale are in every supermarket; an encouragement to start a new, healthy regime in the early weeks…
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Whole Cauliflower with Muhammara
This week (January 2018) there has been outrage that M & S should be charging £2.50 for a slice of cauliflower ‘to roast’ plus a few extras. Buy a whole cauliflower and have fun! I have just found a brilliant recipe from the pile of cuttings which I am ruthlessly editing. Thomasina Miers is always…
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Shepherd’s Pie
It was a great surprise to receive an email from a German student who had stayed with us over six years ago. Viola is now a highly qualified engineer on a global scale. We hope to see her in Bath if she has any free time on a visit to England. She remembered my Shepherd’s…