Grilled Crottin Salad with Figs, Walnuts & Honey

May 17, 2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

It’s been a bit of a French week: I’ve been upgrading my French Peugeot car to a newer (not new) version; I’ve been enjoying the re-run of Rick Stein’s Secret France on BBC TV in the evenings; and there was a French market in Twickenham on Sunday and Monday. I had the eldest grandsons – […]

Pan-Roasted Cod with a Blood Orange Salad

May 5, 2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

Tonight’s supper was my interpretation of the wonderful meal I had a Jose Pizarro’s restaurant in the Royal Academy of Arts in March (click here). I was particularly keen to make the blood orange salad, which was so gorgeous. I’ve been buying blood oranges recently from the local Twickenham greengrocer P. Cooper & Sons. It’s […]

Pear, Blue Cheese & Walnut Salad with a Honey & Mustard Dressing

January 1, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Happy New Year 2022! 🎉🍾 I wish you all a very happy and healthy 2022 and may all your dreams for the new year come true. *************** This is another leftovers post- and another very simple but delicious recipe. I had quite a bit of Saint Agur cheese left over from the black rice dish […]

Rosemary Marinated Lamb Chops with Mint Pesto & Freekeh Salad

May 30, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

Here we are, a couple of days away from June, and finally the weather has decided to be summery after a month which felt akin to March rather than May. It had a brief flirtation with summer a month or so ago, but since then we’ve had endless days of rain and unpredictable weather and […]

Smoked Salmon, Spinach, Egg & Avocado Salad

May 5, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

The pandemic and lockdown have always felt awful and we’ve all had to adjust to the shock of suddenly finding ourselves in such a terrible situation. I remember at the start I’d wake in the morning and it would be like when someone you love dies, or a love affair ends, and you suddenly remember; […]

Sensational Alkalising Salad

March 14, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

We can’t escape the need to stay as healthy and strong as we can during the current coronavirus epidemic so I’m reblogging another healthy salad. This post also explains why eating a largely alkalising diet is good for us and helps maintain optimum health.

Sensational Antioxidant Salad

March 6, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

With a lot of anxiety about staying healthy at the moment, this seems a good time to post this recipe from the early days of the blog again – 8 years ago! But still a sensational antioxidant salad; still delicious; and still good for you.

Fattoush (again) – Ottolenghi Style

January 5, 2020.Reading time 12 minutes.

I love middle eastern food and one of my very favourite dishes is fattoush – hence the third version on the blog! The first was Moro‘s Syrian version with aubergines and pomegranates, which has been a long-time family favourite (click here) and then I tried to recreate the one I’ve eaten at the fabulous Yalla […]

Warm Chicken Salad with Oranges & Black Olives

June 29, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

A heatwave has been scorching its way across Europe and I guess a temperature in the mid-30s in London today is not so bad when you consider other places – like France, Spain and Italy – have had record highs in the mid-40s. However, it definitely wasn’t a day for standing by a campfire in […]

Griddled Halloumi with Blood Orange & Olive Salad

May 13, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

It’s almost two weeks since I bought the two Sicilian blood oranges along with some white asparagus in Chiswick – and I really needed to do something with them! I could, of course, just eat them – straight. But I wanted to do something a bit special and the plan had been in my head all […]