I really like making healthy salads that are either meals in themselves or only need the addition of a protein to make a meal. As always these come about because I always buy too many vegetables from our market stallholders. In my pantry at home I make sure I have a good selection of grains, […]
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Salads
Dark Bulgar Wheat, Roasted Broccoli and Pea Salad
I really like making healthy salads that are either meals in themselves or only need the addition of a protein to make a meal. As always these come about because I always buy too many vegetables from our market stallholders. In my pantry at home I make sure I have a good selection of grains, […]
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Two Salads with Buttermilk Dressing
I’ve often seen buttermilk used in dressings for salads but until I’d read the Cornersmith cook book I’d only ever used buttermilk in baking as I’d always thought it was full of fat. I was wrong!! It’s very low in fat and now I have a jar of dressing made up in the fridge to […]
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Pumpkin, Broccoli and Chickpea Winter Salad
At home we’re slowly working our way through pumpkins that we harvested from the self-seeded plant that sprouted from our compost heap in the summer. Half of one down, 3½ to go!! The other night I made this dish to go with a rack of lamb – the combination of this salad with the meat […]
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LENTILS 2 Ways – Lentil & Beetroot Salad OR Curried Lentils with poached egg
This week I’m including two vegetable dishes that can be a light meal as they are or excellent with chicken, meat or fish. I always have French lentils in my pantry. I loved them from the first time we ate them in Paris in 1980. They’re easy, delicious and great absorber of flavours. FOR MY […]
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Pumpkin, Shredded Collard Greens and Broccoli Salad
For the last two Saturdays the girls at Fresh Gardens have sold collard greens. I’d never cooked and eaten them before and seeing them I automatically thought of the cuisine of the American South without actually knowing what that meant in relation to these big green leaves. So I did some homework and found that […]
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Duck & Fig Salad
Ingredients (for 4) 4 pieces of duck confit 8 figs, cut into quarters 4 potatoes, peeled and small cubes Small bunch of green beans, top and tailed, blanched, refreshed and dried Packet of rocket Dressing – whisk together: 100ml olive oil 1 tbsp sherry vinegar 1 tbsp date molasses (or pomegranate molasses) Salt and […]
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Fig, Bean, Spinach & Snowpea Salad
I made this salad as part of our lunch with pita bread, labneh, eggplant hummus and olives. The fresh figs came from both Terry Lister and Jason, the beans from Fresh Gardens, the baby spinach leaves and snow peas from Jason. The pomegranate dressing and shelled pistachios are from Tahsin. Ingredients 6-8 fresh figs, […]
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Slow Cooked Leg of Lamb with Spices, Eggplant Salad and a Pea & Mint Salad
It’s an old tradition in some parts of the world that lamb is cooked and served at Easter. In the northern hemisphere it’s Spring of course and lamb is eaten as a celebration of new life and the end of Winter. Although it’s Autumn here we always like to have lamb at Easter too. […]
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Beetroot & Blood Orange Salad
Last weekend I bought a few blood oranges and made the following salad as part of our lunch on Monday. The beetroot and rocket came from Fresh Gardens, small red onions from Terry Lister and roasted hazelnuts from The Vanilla Man. Cook the 3-4 beetroot (roast or boil) and cut into wedges. While […]
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