Mains

Easy chickpea Tagine

This is a really quick and easy recipe that is also very flexible – add any veg, beans or dried fruit you …

A super-quick dinner of green vegetables cooked in garlic and chilli, served with pasta. Kale, spinach, broccoli, or other green vegetables of …

Cooking for vegetarians at Christmas? This makes a great centrepeice, and can served with all of the usual trimmings. Serves 6, with …

Serves 2, generously Six white onions Two cloves garlic Bay leaf Tarragon (optional) White wine The best stock you can find (I …

We were kindly given some black truffles last Christmas and haven’t really known what to do with them! We decided to use …

My best friend works on a cheese stall and, yes, that is as good as it sounds. She gave us one of …

I ate something similar to this in a Turkish restaurant in early December and tried to recreate it for Christmas dinner. Use …

Tasty soup for a cold day. This is ridiculously easy to make! Serves 4 5 leeks 4 big potatoes 2 litres veggie …

Quick, simple summer supper – serve with bread if you like, but it’s pretty filling. Serves 2 1 can lentils, well-drained Double …

Chickpea (gram) flour is very tasty, and makes a good pancake batter. I made these to have with a spiced spinach filling, …

I usually make risotto with stock and wine, but adding a can of tomatoes makes a nice change. As ever, substitute any …

Home-made pesto is so easy to make I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to make it. We made traditional pine-nut …

Sunny day, friends coming for lunch. Wanted to make something that required very little effort or time spent at the stove. Came …

A tasty vegetable stir-fry with a sticky peanut sauce. Yum. Takes about 15mins, so it’s a good Monday night dinner! Serves four …

My dear friend’s mum is a cookery writer, and she posted on Facebook that she was making chicken dhansak in her slow …

Another not-vegetarian post, but this was birthday dinner for my grandma so also not made in the bedsit. It’s a bit of …

I did some food writing before Christmas for a large recipe website, and because I got paid by the recipe (with photo) …

Hearty, bean-y tomato-y soup with pasta and herbs – this is a meal in itself, although it is especially nice with hot …

Rich and delicious. Not healthy. As ever, use any vegetables you like. Serves 4 1 onions 6 cloves garlic Thumb-sized piece of …

Lazy supper tonight – super-easy mushroom pasta in a creamy sauce. Serves 4 About 8 mushrooms Pasta 1tsp thyme Olive oil 2 …