Shared Kitchen - Real food from scratch

Brown Sugar Almond Crumbles with Gingered Apple & Pear

Sweet and tangy gingery bite with a nicely balanced crumble.

Crumbles are great served hot as a pudding with runny cream or ice cream, but I reckon they’re even better for breakfast served with a spoonful or two of thick yoghurt.

Apple brown Betty – American Sweetheart

Leftover sandwich bread? Here's the answer ...

Yep, the letter b should be lower-case, just in case you are wondering.

Stewed Fennel with Black Olives

This is a great way to cook a bunch of fennel bulbs. It works well with meats but also as part of an all-vegetable feast.

Pork Snitzels with Parmesan Crust

These crusty savoury snitzels, a favourite with my family, are known as 'snitzel von crumb', or just 'von crum'. We love them with a creamy mash and steamed broccoli, or with salad and oven-baked fries. A quick tomato and caper salsa makes a great accompaniment.

Here’s the lowdown on making golden crunchy snitzel

Getting a golden crunchy crust on snitzels is easy when you know how.

Hump Day

I wish it would stop raining.

Apricot & Almond Tart with Frangipane

Here's a dessert that everyone will fall in love with.

Spaghetti all’Amatriciana – Midweek made easy!

Here's my take on the much-loved pasta dish from the town of Amatrice, spaghetti all'Amatriciana. If you can’t find cubed pancetta, buy a small slab of it and cut it into large cubes. If pancetta is not available, use a small slab of bacon instead, and failing that, thick-sliced bacon.

Barley & Cavolo Nero Gratin

This makes a great mid-week meal. You can change out the butter for oil if you want to make it suitable for vegans, or include bacon if you are serving meat-eaters.

French Roasted Chicken with Verjuice

This is pretty much my desert-island dish – plump roast chicken with crispy skin and juicy fall-off-the-bone flesh, nicely scented with garlic and herbs, served at room temperature on a crisp colourful salad of just-picked leaves tossed with a tangy dressing. Of course I’d have spuds simply because I am like that. This dish is nothing short of spectacular, and the one to make this weekend, or sometime soon, or even right now!

Fish Cakes with Coconut & Lime

Tasty, tart, hot and deliciously coconutty = YUM.

Butternut Pumpkin with Cannellini Beans 3

Butternut Pumpkin with Cannellini Beans & Sage

Oh, sweet little butternut of mine!