Oat Breakfast Bake with Blood Orange

Breakfast, Winter

This hearty oat breakfast bake with blood orange bakes in just 20 minutes while you’re in the shower getting ready for your day, and can easily scale up to feed a family.  I shared a very simple version of this oat breakfast bake dish on Instagram over a year...

Chestnut Kale Lentil Stew

Main Course, Winter

Chestnuts are perfect winter fodder and add a sweetness to this hearty lentil based stew rich with flavour from beef stock, bacon and vibrant curly kale.  Oh stews, impossibly hard to photograph without looking like a bowl of brown sludge.  Even when glorious curly...

Scallops with Celeriac Apple Remoulade

Light Bites / Soup, Salad, Winter

This light winter starter combining scallops with celeriac apple remoulade, is the perfect dish to add to any Christmas menu.   I don’t often talk about the seasonality of meat and fish on the blog, as it’s usually about the vegetables, but of course they...

Parmesan Polenta Bites with Rocket & Grape

Light Bites / Soup, Winter

Parmesan Polenta bites are a bite-size canapé perfect for the festive season.  Baked polenta bites are loaded with Parmigiano Reggiano* topped with a slither of cheese, peppery rocket and a sweet red grape.  *This post is sponsored by Parmesan UK Canapés are one of my...

Beetroot and Vanilla Sorbet

Autumn, Dessert, Summer, Winter

Beetroot and vanilla sorbet is a vegan dessert recipe from Kate Hackworthy’s new debut cookbook Veggie Desserts + Cakes Veggie Desserts + Cakes is a cookbook all about making vegetables the star of cakes and desserts, not about hiding them.   I love vegetables...

Falafel with Roasted Cauliflower Dip & Pomegranate Walnut Relish

Main Course, Winter

This fresh pomegranate walnut relish makes a great topping for a mezze style dish of roasted cauliflower dip topped with Goodlife falafel This dish has me written all over it, perhaps the pomegranates and tahini give it away.  I’m not sure what is is about these...