Yearly Archives: 2010 2010 Holiday Cookie Swap | Recipe 1 It’s the season and all that, and this year Lorna and Mum are heading to join us for Christmas in New York! I am very excited about having them here for the holidays and although I know it’s going to be a really rough time for all of…  The first time I tried these was on a trip to visit my friend Andee in Texas. She has a wonderful vegetable garden and at the time an over abundance of Kale. I’ve always wondered why people decide to grow Kale, I couldn’t think of a single recipe that I’d use it in, but once…  What can I say, another Ottolenghi inspired recipe. I searched high & low for the right sort of flaked almonds in Barcelona, but in the end these were made in the North of England whilst on a trip back home. Very easy to make, these went down incredibly well with ice cream & coffee as…  This is the ultimate crowd pleaser, a fabulous & easy recipe that we both serve often as an appetizer or finger food, also good on top of a lightly dressed salad to make a fuller starter course for dinner parties. The combination of the figs, cheese and ham is a classic but with the twist…  Anne sent me this recipe recently and I loved the sound of the ingredients so while Lorna and I are both here in England visiting Mum I decided it was the perfect opportunity to give it a try. I really love roasted tomatoes, I’ve tried several warm salad dishes that have tomatoes as an ingredient…  I’ve only really used endives a couple of times in the past, Mel & I once made this fabulous crab meat and grated radish salad for a New York Christmas eve party which transformed into a very pretty finger appetizer when scooped onto an individual endive leaf, it was incredibly tasty, but it’s only now I…  Okay Becky this one is for you. I was just trying to think where we were when I first had the pleasure of tasting it, I believe in your parent’s wonderful old kitchen at Well Cottage. Since then I have made it more times than I can begin to count, which is perhaps why my…  Once you start eating these you just can’t stop, they are seriously addictive so beware! I also just wanted to talk about why so many of my recipes specify kosher salt or sea salt. Kosher salt and sea salt have a much larger grain and tend to be much less salty that regular table salt,…  A new Ottolenghi favourite of mine. I have never dabbled with cracker making before and these were so simple to do and an absolute hit for a warm tapas style entrée with a dip or just to eat cold as a snack along the way. As it says in the book “you will never need…  Last week we decided to put our air conditioners back in our apartment windows. Unfortunately we hadn’t expected the weather in New York to go back to being so cold and by Sunday, our place was like a meat locker! As we couldn’t reach anyone in the building to get the heat turned back on…  This recipe is in tribute to Barrafina in London. On a recent trip back to my old home city I managed to persuade a good friend into dining Tapas style, I say persuade as understandably she thought it a slightly odd request coming from someone who lives in Spain, but I really love this place…  A very good friend of mine in London recently passed this recipe on to me with the caveat that I report back and send her photographs of the finished product. Well it worked and for a while I became slightly obsessed. I literally found myself making biscotti into the night trying out different flavour combinations….  I used to belong to one of those mail order cookbook clubs, the ones where each month they send you catalog of noteworthy cookbooks and their pick for the month. I loved getting the catalogs and reading the reviews but part of their policy is that if you don’t send back the postcard saying you… |
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