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I had to work all weekend. There are pros and cons to freelance work. The flexibility means I can take time off for short breaks away, or an outing into central London, midweek when places are often quieter and it’s cheaper to travel. But sometimes a rush job means I have to work over the […]
Read MoreIn my perfect imaginary world I’m cooking up a storm of fabulous recipes every day in my kitchen and venturing off quite often on exciting expeditions to meet lovely chefs and restaurateurs – as I did yesterday – to talk about food and cookbooks. But in real life the day job calls (fortunately quite often […]
Read MoreI love butternut squash and the shops and markets are full of them and lots of other squashes and pumpkin at the moment. It’s that spooky time of year! But Halloween is over and there’s nothing at all spooky about this recipe. It is, in fact, a recipe from Ottolenghi’s new book, Jerusalem, which I bought […]
Read MoreThis 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 MoreWell, I suppose it looks like a fairly traditional Sunday roast dinner, but this was a wonderfully spiced up version. The inspiration started with Yotam Ottolenghi’s page in Guardian Weekend and Saturday’s (25.2.12) recipe for Roasted Butternut Squash with Cardamon and Nigella Seeds. With half a butternut squash lurking in my fridge, left over from my […]
Read MoreI love risotto and I can see I may need to introduce an entire ‘risotto’ category to the blog, but for the time being, this can be known as a ‘rice’ dish. (To find out more about the history of risotto, see my post: Fresh Tomato and Herb Risotto.) For me, risotto is soul food: […]
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