Red salad cured with raspberry vinegar adorned with salty feta
This is a fantastically useful salad to make because it keeps for a couple of weeks in the fridge, and it goes with all sorts of unexpected things – it’s brilli...
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Delightful discovery in the Dolomites – canederli
We arrived at our hotel in the Dolomites (the Hotel Cir, thankfully rather off the beaten track and away from the madding crowd that swarms all over the Dolomit...
Chicken with a lemon pickle glaze
This recipe is super-easy, but smart enough for a dinner party.I used to buy Tracklements’ lemon pickle in six jar consignments, it was so good, and then, h...
Truffled beef and mushroom lasagne
This version of the Italian dish, lasagne ai funghi e tartufo, has been simplified, rather than anglicised. It’s an incredibly useful, and easy recipe. It looks...
The North Wind and the Sun, rye bread salad
I’ve named this recipe The North Wind and The Sun after a lovely fable (by Æsop…and I suspect others) concerning a dispute concerning which of them was stronges...
Peppery mushroom salad with a separated yoghurt dressing and Parmesan shavings
Because you add the acidic lime to the yoghurt, it will separate – don’t worry, it’s supposed to. If you have any deep, chocolatey urfa pepper, sprinkle over a ...
Not-bitter, Beautiful Brussels Sprouts and Seeds
A lot of people famously don’t like Brussels sprouts, but cooking them this way with seeds and butter gives them a rich, nutty flavour which reduces their bitte...
Truffled butternut squash
Butternut squash is rock-hard, and a pain to deal with unless you give it the celeriac-because-you’re-worth-it treatment (completely no-work creamy celeriac met...
Autumn Sausage and Apple Plait
I know this looks like a lot of ingredients, but honestly, they are mostly ones which you use all the time – you won’t be spending hours digging out something o...
Chocolate Rum Cake inspired by Crispins
“She said, ‘I’m terribly sorry, Bruce, I got a bit pissed last night and I gave your telephone number to a man, who you probably won’t like. His name is Peter N...