This is a simple dish, making the best of each ingredient. How many of us buy celery for a ragu and then have twice as much languishing about in the larder for two weeks? Guilty! One great use of it is in a creamy salad like this blue cheese and […]
Tag: Red Onion
Fennel, Orange and Couscous Salad
It’s not exactly proper salad weather in the UK, but if its relatively warm (15°c+) and it’s not raining, BBQs and salad become compulsory. A salad by definition is just a collection of small pieces of food, served cold. With a little imagination some beautiful dishes can be created with […]
Lomo Saltado
Lomo saltado, if you didn’t already know, is a Peruvian dish. It is generally served as a beef stir fry with onions, peppers etc. To change it around, I basically put all of the stir fry ingredients into a marinade. Marinaded the beef for a few hours and served it […]
Salmon with Crab Pastillas and Spiced Puy Lentils.
This dish came originally from a starter I had many years ago. I was amazed at how I had a perfectly round salmon fillet rather than a flat piece. I finally found out how they did it and hence this dish was born. The lentils are flavoured with soy […]
Moroccan Spiced Chicken, Bulgur Wheat Pilaf and Pecorino Ice Cream
The idea of this Moroccan Spiced Chicken and Bulgur Wheat Pilaf emerged from the quite fantastic weather we are having in the UK. The doors and windows are all wide open trying to cool us down a bit. Now apart from a BBQ and salad, I was trying to think […]
Rabbit Tagine with Honey and Preserved Lemons
To continue the Game themed week we have rabbit today. I apologise for it not being a work of art to look at, but if there is one dish you need to try from my blog it is this one. A lot of people comment that although my posts look […]