Archive for March, 2010

Barley salad A big bowl of salad, with goats’ cheese, almonds and chewy barley, all doused in an orange and parmesan dressing.

Spinach, split pea and coriander soup March is a funny one. The warmer weather means that I don’t feel the need for rib-sticking stews and mashed potato quite so heavily, but it’s hardly salad weather either. This is why I decided to make this soup – an late winter/early spring version of this sunny courgette and chickpea soup. Instead of courgette, […]

Butternut squash falafel This is my take on the famous Leon Sweet potato falafel. Baked, rather than fried and crammed with sweet potato to keep them moist, these are a healthy and still delicious version of falafel. I used butternut squash rather than sweet potatoes and plain flour instead of gram (chickpea) flour (mostly because I was too […]

Dense orange and almond cake You need to bake this cake. Perhaps the most perfect afternoon tea cake. Ever. Not only is it moist, aromatic with citrus and dense with ground almonds; it actually improves with age.