Archive for June, 2008

Huevos Rancheros Huevos rancheros is the perfect brunch, something a bit more special than your average fry up. Its basically eggs fried/poached in a spicy tomato salsa. I’ve seen recipes where you fry the eggs separately and add the salsa on top, but I prefer cooking the eggs in the sauce. If you were being authentic, you […]

Pasta with blue cheese and walnuts This is a seriously easy pasta sauce. Basically just stir some blue cheese, a little chopped garlic and some chopped walnuts into (hot) cooked pasta. The cheese melts and forms a silky sauce for the pasta. This is amazing if you REALLY love blue cheese otherwise, it can be a bit strong, in which case, […]

The Best Carrot Salad This is possibly the simplest, easiest salad to make, but is such a delight, serve it with simple dressed leaves alongside anything.

The Loveliest Daal A lovely bowl of soft comforting daal. Eat with rice and naan. Counts as one of your 5-a-day too. Its worth making loads of this as it lasts really well and freezes superbly. Ingredients 1 onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped small piece ginger, finely chopped 1 red chilli, finely chopped ½ tsp […]

Spring Courgette Pasta My friend Kat introduced me to this way of cooking courgettes, apparently they do it in Carluccio’s… Anyway, its completely won me over, I love this way of doing it, its so simple and no more soggy, slimy courgettes. Try adding a spoonful or two of creme fraiche at the end. Although I had this […]

Fish Pie Loosely based on a recipe by Gordon Ramsey, this is seriously the best fish pie I’ve ever tasted. He makes it topped with puff pastry, but why miss a chance to use mashed potato? Use any combination of fish you like (see fish online), prawns or scallops would be a particularly decadent addition. some kind […]

Pasta with Tomato and Creamy Pesto This is a summery fresh dish dreamt up by using what was in my friend Jen’s fridge, and pretty good it came out too. We fried some muhrooms and garlic, added them to pasta with pesto and a dollop of yoghurt, then we added fresh tomato at the end. We used vine tomatoes, but cherry […]