Recipe road test: Nigella’s Rhubarb Tart

This a guest post from Rose, also known as Pixie, a New Yorker now living in the UK. Pixie blogs at You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato and A SweeTart. I consider myself to be a fairly new cook. There are a few recipes I’ve learned from my Maltese mother and my blog is my [...]

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: Chocolate pistachio brownies

This week’s recipe is for chocolate pistachio brownies from the October 2007 issue of Olive magazine. The recipe is by Michelle Noerianto and is rated easy. Chocolate pistachio brownies 1 hour * EASY unsalted butter 125g, melted, plus extra for the tin shelled pistachios 100g dark chocolate 200g, roughly chopped brown sugar 200g olive oil [...]

Recipe road test: Fried aubergine with chilli and salad onions

This week’s recipe is for fried aubergine with chilli and salad onions from the September 2007 issue of Waitrose Food Illustrated. It’s a vegetarian dish by guest chef Simon Hopkinson. Fried Aubergine with Chilli and Salad Onions A surprisingly rich vegetable dish here, considering the relatively restrained ingredients. Perhaps it is down to the remarkable [...]

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