Late Summer Cookout

Making a BBQ dinner for friends is a great way to entertain, especially if the weather cooperates. I enjoy having guests for dinner and I usually plan my menu with dishes that can be prepared ahead of time. That way I am able to spend time with friends rather than doing a lot of food […] … Continue reading Late Summer Cookout

This recipe is the result of one of the first recipes I made for my blog, but as I failed to write down the recipe it never made it that far! So 9 months later and after several mental re-workings, this is the finished article! As purple sprouting broccoli is in season at the moment, it seemed only right to do something a little different with this fantastic vegetable. Roasting may not immediately spring to mind, but it creates such a great flavour, and is a million miles away from the limp, water-logged broccoli that so many of us were served up for school lunches. The sauce is a bastardised hybrid of a dressing and a tapenade, with a great Mediterranean flavour kick to boot. Think of this as a pre-summer recipe, in anticipation of all the warm, sunny days that are (hopefully) to come!

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Thai-Spiced Sweet Potato Soup

Something Clean Something Green

There’s a chapter in a Nigella Lawson cookbook somewhere, entitled ‘The Solace of Stirring’, and I firmly believe that cooking can be very therapeutic in this manner. Throwing ingredients in a pan, cooking & blending may seem a little dull, but I can often find myself needing to do some unhurried cooking, where the stirring is actually rather relaxing. This recipe is not groundbreaking in any particular way, but because the result is extremely tasty and the process of creating it is rather nice, I feel it well deserves its place on the blog. Feel free to play around with the components too, adding & subtracting as you see fit!

Serves 2-3