Recipes – gluten-free

Spinach, chorizo & baby potato salad with a sous vide poached egg

Thumbnail image for Spinach, chorizo & baby potato salad with a sous vide poached egg January 18, 2013

  The human brain likes things to work in predictable ways. It’s comforting to know that the shoe we left by the front door when we went to  bed will remain there.  (Of course, when the dog decides to bring it to our bedside in the  middle of the night, our brains tend not to [...]

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Easy homemade hummus with South African chakalaka spice – inspired by the 2013 McCormick Flavour Forecast

Thumbnail image for Easy homemade hummus with South African chakalaka spice – inspired by the 2013 McCormick Flavour Forecast December 6, 2012

Back in 2009 when I was writing a bi-weekly column for the Food24 website, I wrote a piece called The Shock of the New, all about a document called the Flavour Forecast brought out annually by American spice company McCormick (known as the ubiquitous Schwartz spices here in the UK). The Flavour Forecast is the result [...]

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20-hour sous vide oxtail stew on creamy mustard mash

Thumbnail image for 20-hour sous vide oxtail stew on creamy mustard mash November 15, 2012

  When I was growing up, we had the kitchen basics: a fridge, a freezer, a stove/oven, a toaster and a kettle.  The most exciting gadgets in our kitchen were an ancient blender for milkshakes, and a Kenwood mixer.  There were no electric scales, bread makers, rice cookers, crock-pots or anything of the sort – [...]

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Baked truffled eggs inspired by “White Truffles in Winter”

Thumbnail image for Baked truffled eggs inspired by “White Truffles in Winter” November 8, 2012

I set foot in France for the first time when I was 14, stepping off a UTA flight and into the warm air of a Nice evening. My father had finally decided that at 11 years old, my brother would be old enough to appreciate foreign shores and booked tickets for the family to accompany [...]

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Rotkohl (braised red cabbage with apples)

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  “The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing wax; of cabbages and kings…”  So wrote Lewis Carroll in The Walrus and the Carpenter, one of the very few poems in which the humble cabbage gets a mention.  Can anybody actually think of another notable cabbage [...]

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Chicken and chanterelle mushroom fricassee

Thumbnail image for Chicken and chanterelle mushroom fricassee October 24, 2012

  Everyone who has seen the spellbinding film Amadeus must at some time have pondered thisquestion:  how do you know which cultural artefacts from your time will survive for centuries to come, and which will sink into the mists of obscurity?  In the film, we see the parallel stories of approximate contemporaries Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus [...]

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Easy roasted glazed plums with ice cream

Thumbnail image for Easy roasted glazed plums with ice cream October 19, 2012

When I was a little girl, I often asked my mom why I had brown eyes when she had bright blue eyes. Surely if I was her daughter, I would also have the blue eyes that I so hankered after? She would always smile and patiently explain to me that things like the colour of your eyes or hair; or the shape of your hands and feet are things that you inherited from your parents, and that there was no way of telling which bit you’d get from which parent.

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