Recipes
These are all the posts in the “recipes” category, part of the “cooking” section.
I wrote this back in August but it didn’t post for some reason. Now that soup season has properly started, we’re less interested in light soups – we want warming stodge! – but it’s still yummy :) I usually make hearty, wintery soups but since it is technically summer at the moment, we’ve wanted lighter [...]
Continue reading about Ten minute chicken & sweetcorn noodle soup recipe
One of my fellow drama tutors, Kat, lives off cup-a-soups — she’s 19 and working about five different jobs so she can afford to desert us in a couple of weeks and go to drama school in that London. She’s always rushing from this job to that rehearsal and that’s where the cup-a-soups come in [...]
A few weeks ago, I wanted a sweet treat but didn’t have enough butter in the house to make something cake-ish. After a bit of Googling around for inspiration, I came up with this sweet bread instead – and because it doesn’t use yeast and doesn’t need kneading, it’s ready to eat in next to [...]
Continue reading about Fig and fennel seed soda bread recipe
A common tip for people trying to eat less meat for frugal, health or environmental reasons is to use meat as a flavour not as an ingredient to add volume/bulk to the meal. I love chorizo for this purpose – the smallest pieces provide plenty of flavour. This soup doesn’t taste like a slice of [...]
Continue reading about Quick tomato soup with chorizo and beans (recipe)
Usually when I post recipes, they’re either long-time firm favourites or new things that I’ve made a least a few times to try different flavour tweaks. However these suckers took a good while to make and I can’t see myself finding the time to make them again before the wild garlic (Ramsoms) season is well [...]
Continue reading about Ramsoms & Ricotta Ravioli Recipe (aka cheesy, spicy wild garlic ravioli)
We had wild garlic and serrano ham pizza for dinner last night. Our friend Strowger has repeatedly advocated wild garlic seed pods on pizza after we both pickled some last year but I hadn’t used the leafy stuff on pizza before. I won’t do a full recipe – since I would have thought just about [...]
Continue reading about Wild garlic and serrano ham pizza – mmm!
