Radish and Radish Top Pesto Quinoa Salad with Yellow Courgettes, Pine nuts & Feta

Salad, Side, Summer

Another root to tip recipe, this time utilising radish leaves as well as the roots.  This radish and radish top pesto quinoa salad, is a fresh, healthy salad perfect for a lunchbox, feeding a crowd or for a tasty side.  Last month I was invited to Soho House, on...

Rose Chermoula Roasted Chickpeas & Carrots with Griddled Courgettes 

Main Course, Summer

A herby, spice and rose chermoula marinade for roasted chickpeas and carrots, served with griddled courgettes. A summer vegetarian dish. Listening to BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme this week I discovered that 2016 is the year of the pulse. We’re on month 7...

Chilled Tomato Gazpacho

Light Bites / Soup, Summer

A simple recipe for a blended chilled tomato gazpacho. Free from bread, and thus naturally gluten free this soup has a tiny kick from tabasco. Not to be confused with a savoury smoothie. So chilled soup. It’s totally a thing. I always shied away from tomato gazpacho...

Apricot Mousse

Dessert, Summer

An incredibly light dairy free apricot mousse made by folding whipped egg whites through stewed and softened fruit puree. In my family, this dessert was best known as ‘Chocolate Bubble Pudding’. Apricots are one of my favourite summer fruits, and each year...

Buckwheat & Chickpea salad with Rocket & Brazil Nut Pesto

Salad, Spring

Buckwheat & Chickpea Salad with Rocket & Brazil Nut Pesto. A versatile vegetarian, vegan buckwheat salad recipe from which to build hundreds of variations. Over the last year, I have found myself exploring more and more vegetarian food. In part, it’s an...