Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
This is essentially a Sophie Grigson recipe from her Organic book (though my version here is more a case of throwing the basic ingredients together – remembered from memory – rather following her recipe carefully). It’s been a favourite for years. My daughter Nicola discovered it in the book and once she’d cooked it for me, […]
Read MoreI’m still in soup-making mode, filling the freezer with lovely soups for easy winter lunches. This one has a gorgeous autumnal feel with its bright red colour, echoing the blaze of reds and oranges on the trees and bushes, and a special earthiness that the roasting of the vegetables brings to its flavour. You can […]
Read MoreI make a lot of soup in the winter. Working from home, it’s great to have a selection of home-made soups in the freezer to easily pull out and warm through for lunch. I always freeze them in single portions so it doesn’t take long to thaw and heat through – and if you have […]
Read MoreHowling winds and driving rain – can this really be only the first week of September? It feels more like October or November. It made me Google the first day of autumn – 23 September, so only a couple of weeks early, then. No Indian summer for us, it seems … However, there are lovely […]
Read MoreI had the most wonderful Gazpacho I’ve ever had at Restaurant Viuda de Vacas in Madrid in April. It’s not a smart restaurant; more a cafe, but famous because the film director Pedro Almodovar has filmed there several times; the food is also fantastic. It’s been run by the Canova family for three generations – […]
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