Archive for April, 2008

Roast Carrot and Couscous Salad Having spent most of the weekend eating refined carbohydrate, cheese and drinking alcohol in various guises. I decided that I need to sort myself out and eat some actual vegetables. So, I decided to make loads of this salad as its an easy way to eat lots of healthy things, it travels well in a […]

Sweet Vegetable Tagine This is a step up from the ubiquitous vegetable tagines, there is a real depth of flavour here. You can’t really go wrong topping this pine nuts and coriander, they really counteract the sweetness of the tagine, plus I love pine nuts…Anything you can eat with bulghar wheat yoghurt is always a winner for me […]

Creamy Cauliflower Soup Now cauliflower isn’t normally good for anything but cauliflower cheese. But this creamy cauliflower soup with a little sweetcorn and spring onion for texture is really delicious. Its another recipe from the wonderful Cranks Bible, you must try it, it really is good and cheap as chips to make. Cauliflower and Sweetcorn Chowder Ingredients 1 […]

Marinaded chicken salad This is a ‘guest blog’ if you will from my good friend Kat, a fellow food fanatic, although a job in the city means daily blogging (and cooking!) isn’t really feasible… I invited a friend over for lunch, and, excited at the thought of a girly lunch images of chocolate, wine and generally debauchery, maybe […]

Potato, Onion and Goat’s Cheese Tart Mmmm this tart was delicious. In a bid to use my new heart shaped tin,we found this recipe on the BBC Good Food website, which I think is a lot better than the BBC food website, there’s still the mine of recipes but you get great pictures, new and innovative recipes without the rubbish Ready […]

Spaghetti with tomato and almond pesto This is based on a recipe from Jamie’s Italy, its a delicous variation on pesto using almond instead of pine nuts and squishing the mixture into lovely ripe tomatoes to make a fresh and tasty sauce. Make sure you use good quality tomatoes, definitely not cold from the fridge, I used cherry tomatoes because they […]

Spanish Omelette The key to a good tortilla is to slice the potato really thinly, and cook them really slowly in a genrous amount of oil until soft. Season the potatoes and the beaten eggs liberally.

Mushroom Stroganoff When I’m not craving cheese and carbs, I usually want some sort of stew with a rich sauce you can pour over mashed potato or couscous to soak up all the juices, winter comfort food. This mushroom stroganoff dish is one such dish, flavoured with sherry and paprika. This looks like a lot of mushroom […]

Noodle Soup This is one of those spicy, warming, comforting soups you can get in noodle bars that inevitably get slurped all over your front. It is actually an incredibly fast and easy recipe and you end up with a wonderfully tasty soup. I make this a variation on salad, you can pack it full of vegetables […]

Bean Chilli You may think this looks like a bowl of beany mush, and you’d be right, it is. But therein lies the joy, bean chilli and various versions of it are delicious and nutritious, and can also be used in a million different ways (slight exaggeration)! I love it simply with bulghar wheat or rice and […]