Recipe: Lebanese aubergine stew

Hearty vegetarian dish adapted from a Nigella Lawson recipe. The problem with food blogging is that a lot of the most delicious food is not particularly photogenic. If I were a truly dedicated food blogger, I would cook up beautiful cakes just for the joy of photographing them, and I would do most of my [...]

Summer cooking – a recipe for caponata

My recipe for ‘caponata’ – the classic Sicilian vegetable dish starring aubergine and tomato and flavoured with olives and capers Here in London, summer has arrived with a sudden burst. The days are long and sunshiney, the lawns and trees dazzle with emerald green, and there are roses blooming everywhere. As I sit here at [...]

Recipe road test: Three bean soup

This week’s recipe is for three bean soup, once again from Olive magazine’s 30 Low-Fat Recipes booklet, free with the February 2008 issue. This doubles as an entry for the Well-Seasoned Cook’s My Legume Love Affair challenge. Three bean soup 20 minutes * EASY chicken or vegetable stock, 500ml broad beans 2 handfuls, fresh or [...]

Recipe road test: Spinach, mushroom and lemon pilaf

This week’s recipe is for spinach, mushroom and lemon pilaf from Olive magazine’s 30 Low-Fat Recipes booklet, free with the February 2008 issue. Spinach, mushroom and lemon pilaf 30 minutes * EASY onions 2, finely sliced garlic 2 cloves, crushed 50g butter chestnut mushrooms 150g, sliced cinnamon 1 stick cloves 4 whole cardamom pods 4, [...]

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