Category: Autumn

Crêpe Cake with Apple Marmelade, Honey Cream & Crushed Praline

This is one of those OHMYGOD! cakes – simply sensational!!!

Slow-cooked Beef Cheeks with Balsamic

Meltingly tender, richly flavoured, perfect for chilly days.

French Roasted Chicken with Verjuice

Get your groove on with this chicken mamma – it’s so amazing!

Smoked Salmon & Fennel Salad

Yes, yes, another riff on these fabulous ingredients – I can’t help myself!

Grilled Broccolini with Feta

Skinny green stems never tasted so good.

Baked Potatoes in White Wine – time to revisit

White wine keeps the interior of these potatoes nice and fluffy, but the outsides develop a good golden crunch. Pretty good, yep.

Baked Vegetables with Sizzled Haloumi

Way to go – jazz up a tray bake with sizzled haloumi and a tangy dressing

Pears

Pears are often overlooked for novel or exotic fruit and I reckon it’s because we’ve lost the art of ripening them and we’re eating them hard.

Potato & Celeriac Mash with Crispy Bacon

Pillowy mash with little salty nuggets of bacon – go on, make it, you know you want some!

Ilaria’s Burnt Orange Soup

This soup is insanely easy – you probably can’t get much simpler than this.

Chicken with Spanish Flavours

Whoop-de-whoop! Chicken, chorizo, smoked paprika, char-grilled red pepper, orange & olives … all you need is a fork!

Cavolo Nero – with chilli!

Green leafy things get a kick along

Love your spuds

… so much you can do with them. Woo-hoo!

Baked Potatoes Stuffed with Smoked Fish & Paprika

Time to get off the couch and get cooking!

Fresh Leaf Salad with Asian Flavours

Oh yay! A big bowl of salad greens that tastes so good, you can eat it on its own.

Rhubarb, Apple & Ginger Crumble

Yep, someone ate it all up!

Rhubarb

Rhubarb forms a pretty pink syrup when cooked with redcurrant jelly and orange. It also likes peaches, plums, raspberries & strawberries, but it’s winter here, so apple & ginger it is.

Time to rock the broc – broccoli at its best

You’ll often see a heaping mound of broccoli at the market and, yep, that’s when you want to ROCK THE BROC!

Cheese Straws

Good with wine, good with beer, easy to eat, and delicious. What more do you want from a cheese straw?

Leek & Bacon Tartlets

Mmmmm creamy leeks with bacon and mustard all stuffed into little rounds of cheesy pastry …

Persimmon & Feta Salad

This is a stunner, and a great way to get more antioxidants in your diet. Fresh and tangy, salty and crunchy, the perfect foil to a rich meal to follow.

Spaghetti Squash with Dirty Butter

Only 10 minutes prep for this? Yep.

Spaghetti Squash

It’s not a pasta, it’s a squash!

Witloof, Pear & Haloumi Salad

Fresh, fruity, sweet and salty, oh, and very cute!

Chestnut Crumble

I’m always tempted to buy fresh chestnuts. It’s their rich glossy brown shells that get me, but as soon as I’ve bought them I start fretting about what I’m going to do with them.

Dal with Cauliflower

Cauliflower never tasted so good