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The tomato salad that turned into an aubergine bake 20 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
You'll have to allow me the pleasure of crowing about this dish - a rescue remedy for a leftover tomato salad. I'd always taken the view that salads were unrescuable. Of course you could finish off t...
Are fritters the way to get fussy kids to eat veg? 12 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Coincidentally I came across fritters twice last week - once in Caroline Conran's superb 'Sud de France' which I've been working my way through down in the Languedoc, the other at a neighbour's house ...
Apricot and cardamom jam 27 Jul 2013 | 12:17 pm
I can't believe I've got to the age I have (don't ask!) without ever having made a pot of jam. Marmalade, yes, as regulars may recall from this post but jam and chutney, never. Which makes no sense co...
Hugely versatile broad bean and herb salad 22 Jun 2013 | 07:32 pm
I love recipes you rustle up from what you have in the fridge, freezer and storecupboard. It lends a creative edge to cooking that you never get when you've gone out to buy exactly the right ingredien...
5:2 Hot smoked salmon, avocado and asparagus salad 10 Jun 2013 | 12:20 am
You might well have wondered what happened to the 5:2 diet which has been conspicuously absent from the blog lately? Well, I'm still on it. Sort of. Six months on it's not as regular as it was - I've...
3 meals for two from a £1 bag of veg 7 Jun 2013 | 09:54 pm
Having bought a £1 bag of veg at the Feeding the 5000 event last Saturday I decided to make it the basis for the next day's meals - fortunately a quiet Sunday at home with just me and my husband to co...
Bristol’s 'feedingthe5000' and some thoughts on street cooks 2 Jun 2013 | 03:57 pm
How do you make people - enough people - care about an issue like poverty? The answer might seem superficial but it’s to give them a good time as yesterday’s #feedingthe5000 event on Bristol’s College...
Could you live below the line? 27 Apr 2013 | 12:55 pm
On Monday a major campaign kicks off called Live Below the Line to show that it is possible to feed yourself on £1 a day for 5 days - i.e. £5 for the whole week. As I'm not taking the challenge (a lo...
Do you really need a 5:2 cookbook? 31 Mar 2013 | 02:36 pm
Given the success of the 5:2 diet it was inevitable that there would be a rash of cookbooks cashing in on it but having looked through a few I’m wondering how useful they really are. I mean how much ...
Why Frenchwomen don't get fat - mark II 16 Mar 2013 | 02:32 pm
After 9 days in Paris (it should have been 7 but we got marooned when Eurostar services were suspended) I was dreading getting on the scales. What would the damage be from a week's solid eating - the ...
