Green Bean and Puy Lentil Salad with Vinaigrette, Soft Herbs and Pine Nuts
Green Bean and Puy Lentil Salad with Vinaigrette, Soft Herbs and Pine Nuts This is a flavourful summer dish using green beans and speckled grey-ish, bluish, greenish puy lentils, dressed with a honey and grainy mustard vinaigrette, which can be enjoyed as a side dish...
Warm Brussels & Butter Beans with Nigella Seed Crispy Onions
The natural sweetness of roasted Brussels sprouts are combined with spiced sautéed butter beans, crispy onions cooked in chickpea flour and nigella seeds, in this warm winter side dish. I nearly always follow the same formula to make a warm winter salad. Roasted veg...
Nasturtium Pesto Marinated Mozzarella with Flat Peach & Croutons
A summer salad with peaches, mozzarella, croutons and a pesto made from home grown nasturtium leaves I’ve spent most of my adult life living in flats in London with no outside space, not by choice of course. In the pandemic I decided I’d had enough and...
Watermelon, Halloumi & Coriander Salad
This refreshing salad with watermelon, halloumi, coriander leaf and toasted coriander seeds is the perfect thing to eat in a heat wave I’ve recently returned from a retreat chef job in Sicily, where afternoon snacking on watermelon was a daily treat. Watermelon...