Vegetable side dishes

Spring greens with blue cheese

Thumbnail image for Spring greens with blue cheese January 30, 2012

  Predictions.  What is it about them that the human race simply cannot resist??  Nostradamus made a career out of making them.  Generations of scarf-swathed women in heavy black eyeliner with cards or crystal balls or tea-leaves have made a good living out of them (or got condemned to death on account of being a [...]

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Sautéed Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic, lemon & chilli

Thumbnail image for Sautéed Brussels sprouts with caramelised garlic, lemon & chilli December 19, 2011

  One of the disadvantages of having our dining room in the conservatory at the back of the house is that there is no hiding your kitchen and your work-in-progress from your guests.  I am inevitably in the kitchen when guests arrive and they either pop in to say hi before returning to the lounge, or [...]

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Broccoli, cherry tomato & Brie tart

August 1, 2011

Psssst!  want a sneak peek at the Wikio Top Gastronomy Blog rankings for August 2011?  Click here!     Superfoods.  Isn't it funny how they are always so bloody… exotic (read: unobtainable, expensive).  I mean, who do you know who grows goji berries in their back yard?  I believe many people in London grow their [...]

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Radish, celeriac & pecorino salad with truffle oil & pomegranate – how things change!

June 13, 2011

You've all heard the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same", right? Well, I do believe it's true.  You change jobs; you change size; you change partners; you change your taste in music; you change countries; you change hair cut/colour; you change your wardrobe.  But despite all these changes, some things about [...]

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Tomato, pesto & thyme tarte tatin

May 1, 2011

 Travel:  I love how it broadens the mind (and the derriere, if you eat as much when travelling as I do!).  Living in one country you always seem to think that its problems are totally unique; that its traditions are novel, and its way of doing things correct. It's only when you travel abroad that you begin [...]

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Shredded Brussels sprouts with pancetta and pine nuts – and my new year wishes for you

Thumbnail image for Shredded Brussels sprouts with pancetta and pine nuts – and my new year wishes for you December 31, 2010

There is a lovely saying in Afrikaans which goes geluk by die ongeluk, which means fortune with the misfortune – or, roughly translated, every cloud has a silver lining.  Isn’t that a great way of looking at things?  Whatever seemingly disasterous thing Life throws at you, you just need to look at it in a different [...]

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French beans with toasted almonds and garlic

December 17, 2010

  And so once again, while nobody was looking, the festive season rolled into town.  One minute I was getting sunburnt at the Henley regatta; the next we were watching Guy Fawkes fireworks; and the next I opened my curtains to see that the caravans of the festive season had arrived like gypsies in the [...]

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