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Category: Recipes

  • Moroccan chickpea & haloumi bake

    Mum gave me Annabel Crabb’s cookbook “Special Delivery” for my birthday, and I’ve been happily marking recipes that I want to try – this chickpea and haloumi bake was one of the first, because a) haloumi and b) it’s really quick and easy. ingredients: 1 red onion 1/2 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 coriander…

  • Pumpkin Pancakes

    I found this recipe somewhere in the depths of the internet, and now can’t remember where. Google is no help because there are billions of almost identical pumpkin pancake recipes floating around out there. Anyway, these are lovely, and as you dig into them for breakfast you can think virtuously, “I’m eating vegetables!” and it…

  • Chilli & Almond Biscuits

    When a recipe has equal amounts of butter, cheese and flour, you know the result will taste good. These spicy cheesey biscuits are lovely, crisp salty little snacks speckled with the pleasant contrast of the almonds. ingredients: 175g unsalted butter, softened 175g grated strong cheddar 1 tsp chilli flakes ¾ tsp salt 2 tsp smoked…

  • Myrtle Allen’s Brown Bread

    This is such a fantastic bread for such low effort. It doesn’t require kneading, it can rise overnight in the fridge so you can bake it fresh in the morning, and the combination of molasses with the wholemeal flour is so tasty. Next time I’m going to use a smaller loaf tin so I can…

  • Cashew & Date Biscuits

    Chewy wholemeal biscuits studded with cashews or dates – or whatever combination of dried fruit and nuts you prefer. I adapted them fairly heavily from Dan Lepard’s blueberry choc chip cookies. Next time I think I’ll reduce the sugar a bit even more, or use one of those less sweet alternative sugars, like coconut sugar.…

  • Recent baking

    I was moved to another area at work occupied by rather more people than the previous area I was in (I do refer to it as Cubicle Death Farm, but only in my head and mostly in an affectionate tone), which has given me a chance to try some new cake recipes and leave cakes…

  • Wrapping up – 7 best recipes of the year

    As part of smugly congratulating myself on cooking 100 new things, I had a scroll through my round-up posts, and thought I would list down my very favourite and/or most momentous recipes from the year. [Most momentous because I’ve listed the first Ottolenghi salad I made, and I know I am tediously repetitious on the…

  • 100 new recipes: part nine and last

    The project is finished! 100 new recipes in a year. It was great fun cooking so many new things, I discovered chefs that I’m now very fond of (Ottolenghi!) and made some completely new-to-me things such as yoghurt. I can’t say I kept up a consistent cooking pace and flagged at some points – my…

  • 100 new recipes: part eight

    The penultimate update! Only seven recipes to go. 73/100: Herb, Tofu & Kidney Bean Stew – from this recipe. This stew had such a beautiful combination of flavours, although it was an irritatingly fiddly recipe in terms of the steps involved. Freezing, defrosting then baking the tofu makes it wonderfully chewy. 74/100: Brioche – from…

  • 100 new recipes: part seven

    62/100: Braised Pork with Cabbage – from this recipe. Ridiculously easy, tender pork. Also, braising. I love braising. 63/100: Roasted Eggplant with Crispy Chickpeas – from a recipe in the Smitten Kitchen book, written about here. Nice easy unattended-in-the-oven dish, and the combo of silky roasted eggplant and crunchy chickpeas is great. 64/100: Bread Pudding…