Getting Smokey Whether you know it as mutabbal, moutabal, caviar d’aubergines or baba ganoush, the smoke-scented aubergine puree is a classic. Baba ganoush is a Lebanese dish of aubergine, mashed and mixed with virgin olive oil and various seasonings. I suppose you could say it’s the lesser known cousin of hummus, only instead of chickpeas [...]
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I recently set up a weekly order with Abel & Cole (I wasn’t very happy with my old delivery scheme and had previously tested some of Abel & Cole’s produce with fabulous results). I plumed for the Deluxe Organic Fruit Box and Seasonal Salad Box. Abel & Cole also, very kindly, sent me a Mixed [...]
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The Big Cheese I have to confess when I noticed Riverford (from whom I buy my organic box delivery) were selling Mozzarella made not in Italy but in Hampshire I was to put it mildly a little dubious. Could Laverstoke Park Farm really be producing genuine buffalo mozzarella that could live up to, let alone [...]
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Will you be cool as a cucumber? Fresh cucumbers are simple to add to salads. For an easy salad just toss diced cucumbers with sliced red onions, red tomatoes and your favourite vinaigrette. This can be a fast way to make a refreshing salad that reaps some great benefits of cucumber. Not merely is the [...]
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“Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.” Charles Dickens Figs are such a strikingly beautiful fruit, with their fresh green or deep purple skin and vibrant deep pink flesh what is there not to love? Fresh figs always remind me of [...]
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A Taste of Morocco “I’m really proud of this beautiful dish. I’m not sure what the mechoui man I met in the market in Marrakesh would make of it, but I like to think I’m respecting the way he cooks” Jamie Oliver (Jamie Does) If Jamie Oliver is unsure of how his version of Mechoui [...]
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“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king.” Louis Bromfield, American novelist (1896-1956) Oh sunshine where have you gone? The weather has been a little challenging of late, to say the [...]
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As some of you may be aware I have reviewed products on behalf of Abel & Cole on previous occasions and I have always been pleased with the quality of the goods sent. I was very happy to learn that I would be getting more products to review, a pack of two duck fillets and a pack of [...]
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Algo es algo; menos es nada or roughly translated – half a loaf is better than no bread! Never were truer words spoken. Oh how I wished I’d made a lovely rustic country style loaf to go with our dinner yesterday but I didn’t and it meant we were without bread, I was sure we’d [...]
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For years and years I’ve had my eye on the Sullivan Street Bakery recipe for no knead bread, and the other weekend I finally got round to baking it! Thank you Coby for finally giving me the inspiration to do it. Oh how did I put it off for so long? How could I do [...]
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I owe Minnie a big thank you, why? Simply because she picked the most delightful dish in the current Violets Pantry challenge. The Pantry members are cooking our way through Nigella Lawson’s Nigella Express, with a new recipe every fortnight until all have been cooked. I set the first challenge choosing Curry In A Hurry which is [...]
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