Poached pears in spiced red wine, with panettone and walnut cinnamon praline
I have just eaten this and I am so fat and happy… You will need: Red wine Pears A panettone Orange juice …
Veggie burritos with black beans, and lime and coriander rice
We’re both big fans of Mission Burrito and Benito’s Hat, so decided to recreate their veggie burrito at home. You will need: …
Pizza
In a half-arsed attempt to eat more healthily, I made pizza from scratch instead of getting it from Domino’s. Hmm. For the …
Curry feast
I saw this recipe in the Guardian during the week and decided to attempt it at home over the weekend – with …
Mushroom and pea risotto with asparagus
This is a quick, easy, filling meal, which can be made with anything you’ve got lying about: cheese, green veg, other veg, …
Caramelised onion, spinach and goat’s cheese tart, with sweet potato wedges
Block/pack puff pastry 2 red onions Vinegar (preferably balsamic, but it doesn’t really matter) Sugar Garlic Rosemary 2 sweet potatoes Olive oil …
Apple crumble
Feeling very autumnal in Bath at the moment, which definitely means it’s crumble time. This was a squidgy, spicy, alcoholic, comforting one, …
Tomato soup and kneidlach (dumplings)
Kneidlach are little dumplings made with matzah meal, usually eaten at Passover. They are normally made with chicken fat and then cooked …
Slow-cooked bean chilli
Lazy Saturday. Boyfriend has a cold. Distinct chill to the air outside. Time for a spicy, savoury, goopy chilli, left to simmer …
Quick chickpea and sweet potato curry
This is one of those “what have we got in the cupboard/fridge?” meals, and there are a million variations. We had the …
Tuna steaks with garlic roast potatoes, green beans and salsa verde
Disclaimer one: This is not vegetarian, obviously. However, it is tasty, and the salsa can be made veggie by omitting the anchovies …
Spiced honey ginger cake
It’s Jewish New Year tonight, and traditionally we eat apples dipped in honey for a sweet new year. Honey cake is also …
Spicy vegetable fajitas
This is one of my favourite meals. You can vary the spice mix or the amount of spice mix to make it …
Mushroom and goat’s cheese lasagne
This is a bit of a faff to make (I think it uses every saucepan we own), but it tastes so damn …
Pancakes (American style) with caramelised fruit
These are not roll-able thin English/French pancakes, these are fat, fluffy American pancakes to be eaten for breakfast with maple syrup and …
Raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake
200g white chocolate (it’s important that it’s good white chocolate. If you use cheap stuff it goes all oily and separated and …
Sesame, honey, ginger, soy, garlic and lime stir-fry
My boyfriend would eat stir-fries every night if he could, and we make some variant on this about once a week. Quorn …
Macaroni cheese bake
Comfort food, especially if you put in as much cheese as I do. This one had green veg in, in an attempt …
Blue cheese quiche
We do a pre-Christmas Christmas meal with some of our friends every year. T is an utterly superb cook and we all …
Sweet potato falafel
A friend of mine on Twitter posted a few months ago about having sweet potato falafel for dinner, and I was insanely …