Fridge Basics: Cooking from Scratch Without Starting From Scratch
[…] not that person. I mean, who knows on Sunday what The People will want for dinner on Thursday? Instead, I prefer my weekend ritual of trawling the farmers market, greengrocer […]
[…] not that person. I mean, who knows on Sunday what The People will want for dinner on Thursday? Instead, I prefer my weekend ritual of trawling the farmers market, greengrocer […]
[…] collaborators for welcome drinks at 8pm and then sit down to a delicious three course dinner with vegetarian options available on request. Building Feasts Holiday Party Wednesday December 5th 2018 […]
[…] because I am feeding a legion of growing teenage boys who eat at least 2 dinners every evening and want leftovers the following day. Also, roasting a whole bird (as […]
This dressing was originally paired with the grilled gem heart and radicchio salad, but it is basically delicious on just about any salad on these proverbial pages. A summer staple ...
One day I might just write a book called 101 Ways With Greens. These days when we are all at home cooking a little more than we ever possibly imagined, you can never have too…
I did not grow up in a house with meat. When my parents moved to London for nine months in 1973, my father had just become a vegetarian (herring and his mother's salmon were "honorary…
Another one of my faves in the fridge basics range, this is delicious smothered on cornbread or for frying your eggs as well as melted onto a steak or a simple piece of cod. Make…
I am lured by the sweet and sour flavour combinations and the visual orgy of multiple colourful dishes at traditional Persian feasts. But honestly, when it comes to recreating the dishes of my dreams in…
This week I am not sharing nostalgic moments, stories of family adventures or lists of incomplete tasks, just good simple food, with flavours that sing. I am often asked what I serve on the side. …
The all round vinaigrette with a little tang from the onion, mild acid from the rice vinegar, hit of heat from the mustard and a great pouring consistency. It holds its own with the heavier…
As we catapult our way into shorter days, I like to preserve all the remaining hues of warm sunshine with a little multi-colour action in the kitchen and on our plates. These days you will…
Rosh Hashana, kicks off a month long Jewish holiday season. It is a two day eating and celebrating fest where we bring in the New Year and consume an abundance of symbolic, mostly sweet foods…
These are the perfect addition to salads, stirred into grains, as a condiment to simple roast chicken, the secret little bit of sandwich jhooz or as part of a grazing board garnish.
This salad is really a choose your own adventure opportunity. Feel free to get creative with your ingredients, adding or subtracting at your will. I really enjoyed playing with the monochrome element here and it…
When it comes to cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving I am a purist. This makes me an anomaly in my family, for whom Thanksgiving is the most important day of the year, trumping every holiday or…
This was initially created for my Salmon Caesar(ish) salad, but I feel that it deserves its own stand alone recipe here as I use it prolifically.