Pumpkin risotto
Well, actually onion squash was used here. But any squash or pumpkin you like to eat is fine. A warm evening mouthful to comfort one during difficult times, or a great lunch for two in happier days....
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Something a bit different for Christmas week. Light the fire, put on Ski Trails* and imagine you are holed up in a little Alaskan cabin with snow to the door, Arcturis in the sky and plenty of this...
View ArticleChristmas salad
Method: Make a simple olive oil and lemon juice salad dressing. Put it into a bowl. Wash, dry and slice the peppers and apple. Leave the tomatoes whole. Slice two or three thick slices from each breast...
View ArticleBeetroot curry
Regular readers might notice similarities between this and other earlier posts. I thought that too, but there is a difference in that here beetroot is the star ingredient and needs to have a bit of...
View ArticleTuna on rye for Inauguration Day, Virginia
I am on record as declaring that English cheese is best. But I would maintain to my dying day that American sandwiches are the very best. What is a sandwich without lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, french...
View ArticleButternut squash and turnip curry
Another simple vegetable curry, the sort of thing I don't get tired of eating: Ingredients: Half a butternut squash, one turnip, two red onions, one red pepper, one chilli, one tomato, a small handful...
View ArticleSmoked haddock soup
I was checking to see when smoking fish became a thing. Several references to medieval Poland but surely it must go back further than that? This is another soup made from leftover bits and pieces....
View ArticleMackerel stir fry
Mackerel (Scomber scombrus) are so much part of traditional Britain that they are used to name a type of cloud pattern - Mackerel sky. They can be caught off beaches and piers, like this one at Cromer....
View ArticleFocaccia made with pumpkin and red onions
These non-authentic focaccie make a tender-hearted snack ... Ingredients: For the dough: 10oz/285g plain flour, one sachet of dried yeast (7g), 150ml crème fraîche, about 30ml/2Tbsp olive oil, a little...
View ArticleJuly 4th Barbecue ‘You gotta dig it baby!’
If it was a clambake in Alaska fifty years ago we would have been digging right now. But this is a hot day in Norfolk: two older ladies; one cooking over charcoal, the other doing all the work. Ground...
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