Potato, Red Chicory and Chickpea Tray Bake with Halloumi & Black Olives
Potato, Red Chicory and Chickpea Tray Bake with Halloumi & Black Olives Everyone loves a tray bake, don’t they? What’s your tray bake multi-tasking activity of choice? Mine is usually bunging clothes in the washing machine, hoovering the lounge, or if...
Cantaloupe Melon Salad with Tiger Prawns & Chilli Coriander Dressing
Cantaloupe Melon Salad with Tiger Prawns & Chilli Coriander Dressing I haven’t had the chance to go on holiday this summer, and so the entire reason for this recipe entry was my craving for summer holiday prawns. Prawns just like the ones that I’d order off...
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...
Pepper, Walnut and Pomegranate Stew with Griddled Polenta Wedges
It Starts with Veg is HERE, and a recipe for Pepper, Walnut, and Pomegranate Stew with Griddled Polenta Wedges My debut cookbook It Starts with Veg is out today, so I’m sharing for the first time, the story of how the book was put together, as well as sharing an...
Chard, Pancetta and Feta Quiche
Chard, Pancetta and Feta Quiche I used to hate making pastry. Thought it was some act of wizardry. I’ve more recently really come to enjoy the process, and it’s taught me so much about patience – not just the fact that a quiche takes hours to make...
Celery and Blue Cheese Soup
Celery and Blue Cheese Soup Because, there is always celery that needs using up. How often do you buy a bunch of celery, use a stick or two for a recipe, and then leave the rest lingering in the fridge until it’s as bendy as I wish my legs were for yoga? Even...
Spring Green Leaves Stuffed with Rice, Sun-dried Tomato and Fennel Seed
Spring Green Leaves Stuffed with Rice, Sun-dried Tomato and Fennel Seed, Served with Warm Hummus, Garlicky Mushrooms and Harissa Oil Spring greens, also known as collard greens, are a loose-leaved type of cabbage. An inexpensive green (a large bunch will often cost...
Red Cabbage and Citrus Slaw with Sticky Pomegranate Trout
Red Cabbage and Citrus Slaw with Sticky Pomegranate Trout January days can be a bit grey, so brighten things up with this colourful dish. Red cabbage is a great buy as a little goes a long way and will serve you many meals. You can find pomegranate molasses in most...
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Passion Fruit Sauce
Any excuse to make my favourite flourless chocolate cake, and serve it with a tangy sweet passion fruit sauce Was this just an excuse the make my favourite chocolate cake again? Probably. I can’t claim to have invited the idea of this flourless chocolate cake,...
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...
Butternut Squash & Feta Filo Rolls
These butternut squash & feta filo rolls, are yet another cunning way to smuggle cooked butternut squash into a recipe. This is my second recipe in a row with the inclusion of warm feta. My trip to Greece in September must still be on my mind, where amongst many...
Romanesco, Tomato and Feta Bake
A simple and seasonal idea for the beautifully unique romanesco involving a can of tomatoes and chunks of warm feta. Romanesco is an unusual looking vegetable, but behind those vidid green fractal patterns, and conical florets it’s really just a brassica that is...
Creamy Sweetcorn and Spinach Orzo with Crispy Chorizo
Make the most of fresh sweetcorn in this quick to make pasta dish for two A tasty and quick dish to make the most of corn on the cob season, or a can of sweetcorn you may have lingering at the back of your cupboard. I actually came up with this dish when I came home...
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...
Mini Asparagus Quiche Style Filo Pastry Tarts
A cream cheese tart topped with asparagus spears. These individual tarts make the perfect portion. You can use muffin or cupcake trays to bake them. I’m fairly obsessed with the crispiness of olive oil brushed and baked filo pastry. These lovely little tarts...
Trout Tray Bake with New Potatoes, Asparagus & Radish
Trout tray bake with new potatoes, asparagus and radish; put everything in one tray and let the oven do the work The food stuff I hate the most in the world is a boiled new potato with papery skin. I know, it’s an utter crime to springtime, but I just...
Asparagus Pappardelle with Pistachio Pangrattato
Asparagus pappardelle with pistachio pangrattato for a simple seasonal supper April and May means it’s time for Asparagus in the UK and I look forward to this each and every year. The exact date it will appear depends largely on the weather and its impact on the...
Brussels Sprouts & Smoked Salmon Linguine
Brussels Sprouts & Smoked Salmon Linguine A creamy indulgent linguini pasta dish inspired by festive ingredients – a surprising way to enjoy Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts are not just for Christmas! But, just in case you do have some lying around after...
Squash Gratin with Herby Breadcrumbs
Squash gratin with herby breadcrumbs A warming, creamy autumnal dish that can be made with butternut or any other variety of squash. Sage + squash = autumn. Is there a better combo this time of year? Peeling the squash is optional but for butternut I prefer this dish...
Plum & Amaretti Semifreddo
Semifreddo means half cold in Italian and this simple dessert is a cross between a frozen mousse and an ice-cream. In this version I swirl through deep maroon plum puree and scatter in crumbled amaretti biscuits. I first made a version of this plum amaretti...
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...
Aubergine Skewers with Peanut Sauce & Quinoa
Aubergine Skewers with Peanut Sauce & Quinoa a dish inspired by Indonesian Satay This dish is inspired by satay, an Indonesian dish consisting of grilled skewered meat – often chicken, served on skewers with a rich peanut sauce. If satay is on the menu I...
Sweetcorn Ribs with Miso Butter
How to make sweetcorn ribs – the latest food trend. I serve mine with miso butter Sweetcorn ribs, as a concept have been around for a while now, although I’m not sure who is to credit for this amazing idea. In season sweetcorn is fantastic at the best of...
Griddled pear, Castelfranco and burrata salad with yoghurt dressing and toasted buckwheat
Griddled pear, Castelfranco radicchio and burrata salad with yoghurt dressing and toasted buckwheat. It feels like a lifetime ago since I wrote and photographed this recipe. Last February in fact. But, as we all know life has very much changed since then, and that...
Olive Oil Oat Granola
A simple granola made from jumbo oats, olive oil and maple syrup. A versatile base recipe allowing you to get creative with your extras. Does the world really need yet another granola recipe? I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if every single recipe blog in the...
Roasted Vegetable & Chickpea Salad with a Smokey Paprika Dressing
Roasted vegetable & chickpea salad with a smokey paprika dressing. A colourful salad with sweet potato, pepper and cauliflower to feed a crowd. I originally shared a version of this recipe in April 2014. I have made it many many times since, but only just had the...
Rhubarb Cordial & Tonic
This simple rhubarb cordial makes a refreshing drink when mixed with tonic water, and if you like, a cheeky shot of gin. Last weekend, I was meant to make my return to the world of hosting supper clubs. I’d found a great new venue and even had my spring menu all...
Pea Risotto with Wild Garlic
Pea risotto with wild garlic, making the most of a box of risotto rice and a bag of frozen peas when not much else is available. Hello, how is everyone doing? I’m not going to use this space to talk about the current Coronavirus pandemic, as so much has been...