Vegetable korma
Rich and delicious. Not healthy. As ever, use any vegetables you like. Serves 4 1 onions 6 cloves garlic Thumb-sized piece of …
Creamy cheesy mushroom pasta
Lazy supper tonight – super-easy mushroom pasta in a creamy sauce. Serves 4 About 8 mushrooms Pasta 1tsp thyme Olive oil 2 …
Brown rice pilaf
This is the easiest dinner in the world to make, especially if you have leftover rice. I made it the night before …
Vegetable wraps with black beans
These are a great way of using up leftover veg – I cooked some sweet potatoes from scratch and used leftover sweetcorn, …
Mushroom risotto
The mixture of fresh and dried mushrooms gives this a really deep mushroom flavour – omit the dried mushrooms and/or mushroom liquid …
Lentil soup
Warming, spicy lentil soup, perfect for a cold day. Serve with bread, if you like. Serves 4 180g red lentils 1 red …
Apple crumble muffins
Having discovered that muffins are ridiculously easy to make, I am now planning various experiments with flavours. These ones were made the …
Squash and goat’s cheese bake
I tend to make this in pyrex because it’s easier, but if you want it to look more impressive you can roast …
Blue cheese pasta sauce
We sometimes make a variant of this with loads of blue cheese and sour cream, which makes it really rich. This was …
Mixed berry muffins
These have surprisingly little butter and sugar in them, making them a reasonably healthy version of shop-bought muffins. Obviously, you could add …
Sweet potato and haloumi curry
My housemate at uni and I invented this one evening when vaguely aiming for saag paneer… we decided that haloumi would be …
Pasta with caramelised onions, goat’s cheese and spinach (“Padana” pasta)
My favourite Pizza Express pizza is the Padana, which is tomato sauce, caramelised onions, goat’s cheese, spinach and mozzarella. This combines those …
Cinnamon buns
Makes approximately 20 buns. 450g self-raising flour 300g bread flour 100g caster sugar 2tsp live yeast, activated in about 1/4 pint warm …
Herby tomato and bean soup
Perfect cold-weather lunch. We had 6 people sitting on the floor of our tiny flat trying not to drip tomato soup on …
Spiced apple and fig cake
I bought figs to make something else (fig and rum custard tarts, since you ask) but decided to make a cake instead …
Salmon with stir-fried vegetables and rice noodles
This is a cheat because not only is not vegetarian but also I didn’t cook it in the bedsit – this was …
Rogan josh (ish) chickpea curry
My boyfriend had a yen for a really thick, saucey curry, but one without loads of cream, so we came up with …
Butternut squash and pepper soup, with roasted garlic and parmesan cream
The first time I cooked for my boyfriend’s family, I made this soup as a starter. It’s pretty filling, actually, so will …
Butternut squash and chestnut wellington
I’m calling this a wellington, but it’s really a giant pasty full of tasty things… You will need (serves 8, with roast …
Pear, almond and chocolate cake
We had friends round for an apocalypse party, and if the world’s going to end I want to go full of cake. …