Archive for February, 2009

Brown Rice Salad

The base is brown rice, some lentils for texture, plenty of red onion and garlic and toasted seeds for crunch.

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Triple Decker Club Sandwich

These are inspired the by The delightful Rose in Oxford, in fact just looking for a link to the website is making me drool. Many mornings, lunches and afternoons have been happily spent here drinking vanilla tea, eating scones and everything else. It’s all organic, made from scratch and outrageously good. The club sandwich is […]

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Pappardelle with Sausage and Savoy Cabbage

Possibly the best way to eat savoy cabbage (along with colcannon). There aren’t many vegetables that don’t benefit from being paired with pasta and cream or cheese. Faced with another cabbage in the veg box, I rustled this up and it’s definitely one to make again. The cabbage is definitely the star, you’re not trying […]

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Sticky Toffee Pudding

Yes, yes, yes. Possibly one of the best puddings ever and it’s so much better homemade. Not only that but it’s worringly easy to make, do it once and prepare to become obsessed. Perfect, tooth-achingly sweet comfort food. Dates and dark brown sugar give this it’s butterscotch stickiness with a divine caramel sauce to pour […]

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Root Vegetable Rostis

Great for using up root vegetables and a healthy(ish) treat for brunch.

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Valentine’s Day

The combination of the credit crunch and February 14th presented the perfect excuse to buy lots of decadent ingredients, cook up a delicious meal, pop open some bubbly and hunker down for the evening. The starter was a beef carpaccio salad, inspired by this Jamie Oliver recipe, although we used rocket instead of green beans, […]

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Parsnip and Leek Risotto

Running with the idea of cooking parsnips in long thin strips with or without bacon like this recipe, I came up with this risotto, utilising some leeks lurking in the fridge. I’m not normally a fan of risotto, but this was perfect, rich and comforting. I tried to use as much parsnip and leek as […]

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