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    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Cordial
    • Jul 24, 2016

    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Cordial

    The second of two quick and easy weekend posts. See yesterday's post on Blackcurrant Vinegar here. Even if you think life is too short...
    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Vinegar
    • Jul 23, 2016

    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Vinegar

    This is the first of two very quick recipes for the weekend - come back tomorrow for Blackcurrant Cordial! This is good for deglazing...
    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Ice Cream
    • Jul 13, 2016

    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Ice Cream

    I don’t know of a more flamboyant coloured ice cream. Come to think of it I don’t know of many better flavoured ice creams. And it’s a...
    Blackcurrants: Summer Pudding
    • Jul 9, 2016

    Blackcurrants: Summer Pudding

    If you use a mixture of berries in a summer pudding, you have to go easy on the blackcurrants because they have a habit of overwhelming...
    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Jam
    • Jul 4, 2016

    Blackcurrants: Blackcurrant Jam

    This recipe series was first published in the summer of 2006 in The Sunday Times, but read on and you'll see it's perfectly relevant 10...
    Summer Veg: New Potatoes
    • Jun 28, 2016

    Summer Veg: New Potatoes

    New potatoes, boiled or steamed and tossed in butter are delicious, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do anything else with them. Here are...
    Summer Veg: Braised Petits Pois
    • Jun 22, 2016

    Summer Veg: Braised Petits Pois

    I know I should be insisting that there is nothing to beat fresh peas, but, honestly, for this recipe I think frozen petits pois are...
    Summer Veg: Aubergine Rolls
    • Jun 16, 2016

    Summer Veg: Aubergine Rolls

    I’ve given two fillings here, but mix, match and add as you like. Olives, anchovies and capers are all candidates. Choose aubergines that...
    Summer Veg: Stuffed Vine Leaves
    • Jun 10, 2016

    Summer Veg: Stuffed Vine Leaves

    Everyone seems to have a pet vine in their garden or on their balcony these days, but, if you haven’t, it’s almost worth nipping down to...
    Summer Veg: Tomato-Stuffed Red Peppers
    • Jun 4, 2016

    Summer Veg: Tomato-Stuffed Red Peppers

    I had a damascene conversion to vegetables in the summer of 2004. Actually I had no choice. For eight weeks, I was not allowed to eat...
    • Jun 1, 2016

    Ice Creams: Variations & Sauces

    Rounding up my ice cream series with variations on a theme, and two sauces. This is also a good place to point out my favourite way of...
    • May 21, 2016

    Ice Creams: Coffee Ice Cream

    The accepted wisdom with coffee ice cream is that you should either use instant coffee or strain out the fresh grounds, but I like coffee...
    • May 18, 2016

    Ice Creams: Lime Ice Cream

    You can make this with lemon instead, but lime, with its spicy note, is sensational. It’s very intense in flavour, so will overpower a...
    • May 15, 2016

    Ice Creams: Very Chocolatey Ice Cream

    Every ice-cream cook has to have a chocolate recipe. This is mine. It was after making this and a seed-speckled vanilla that I turned my...
    • May 12, 2016

    Ice Creams: Mango Ice Cream

    Here is proof that you don’t have to have eggs and custard to make quick, easy, exotic-tasting ice cream. If it’s not eaten within 12...
    • May 4, 2016

    Ice Creams: Bay Leaf Ice Cream

    It may not feel all that summery right now, but we are promised warmer weather this weekend so why not make some ice cream in...
    • Apr 24, 2016

    Salads: DIY Salades Composées - Part 2

    See Part 1 of my Salades Composées two-part series here. Salad dressings The soy and ginger dressing (from my Smoked Salmon Salad recipe)...
    • Apr 23, 2016

    Salads: DIY Salades Composées - Part 1

    This is part one of two - today's post on salad components will be followed by part two tomorrow on dressings. Top tips Don’t have too...
    • Apr 19, 2016

    Salads: Filicudi Salad

    The Aoelian island of Filicudi takes its caper-growing and its salads seriously. This one – perfect as a simple starter with bread, but...
    • Apr 11, 2016

    Salads: Smoked Salmon Salad with Soy and Ginger Dressing

    Smoked salmon with brown bread should be a treat, but when you’ve had too many garden parties with canapés of sun-warmed smoked salmon on...
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